The Complete Illustrated Guide to Farming is a comprehensive, one-stop encyclopedic guide for the beginning farmer, hobby farmer, and small-scale family farmer. Are you interested in the country lifestyle or becoming more self-reliant? Do you think about someday raising livestock or growing crops? If you’re ready to make these thoughts a reality, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Farming is the perfect place to start. Farming experts Philip Hasheider and Samantha Johnson explain farming from start to finish: build your own fence, repair your own machinery, and know what to look for when you’re buying a tractor. Instead of buying a book on each subject area, you need just this one, which condenses the most important and relevant information on every aspect of running a farm into a single handy volume. And unlike other books, it’s designed specifically for the owner of a working farm. This practical illustrated guide provides hard-won expert advice on raising livestock and growing crops, making repairs, harvesting and butchering, managing a woodlot, and more. It’s everything you need to know to establish and maintain your farm.

Hundreds of helpful color photographs, proven tips and techniques, and money-saving advice from expert restorers.

How to Restore Your Farm Tractor includes all the details readers need to do a first-class job: hundreds of full-colour photos, expert tips and techniques, and money-saving advice from restorers who know what works-and what doesn't.

Packed with hundreds of helpful full-color photographs, proven tips and money-saving advice. "We can't remember the last time we saw a book that took such an unflinching look at a hobby." Popular Mechanics.com.

Finally! A restoration guide with the kind of detail needed for a first class job. How to Restore Classic Farm Tractors is packed with hundreds of helpful full-color photographs, proven tips and techniques, and money-saving advice from restorers who know what works . . . and what doesn't. This guide will walk you step-by-step through the complete restoration of your tractor from disassembly to engine rebuild, from electrics to painting and final detailing. There's even a handy section on parts sources. So, no matter if you favor John Deeres, Fords, Farmalls, A-Cs, or Minnie-Mos, with Gaine's guidance you're well on your way to showing off your shiny "new" classic tractor! Tharran Gaines has specialized in agricultural writing for the past 25 years. He has written owners' manuals, repair guides, and sales brochures for most of the major tractor companies, such as ACGO's Allis-Chalmers, White, and Hesston lines.