Farm Machinery - Autumn Work & Rootcrops

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Farm Machinery - Autumn Works and Root Crop

This programme uses extracts from a collection of silent films made by the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering over a period of about ten years from 1945. Some of the films record machinery working in the field, others show experimental farm machines designed by the NIAE at Askham Bryan in Yorkshire and from 1948 at Silsoe. They include manure spreaders, hedgers, ploughs, potato spinners, potato and root harvesters (see fuller contents below). Some of the machines went successfully into production; others are rarities whose development was curtailed.The NIAE's film record was professionally made. The prints from which this compilation has been drawn are in the collection of the British Agricultural Archive Film Unit and are reproduced by courtesy of Richard Watts.Brian Bell, author of 24 books and DVDs on farm machinery, has researched the footage to provide an informative commentary narrated by Chris Opperman. The original material is silent, some in black and white, though later films are in colour.Manure loading and spreading Painter FYM manure loader Thwaites FYM loader Dungledozer Wild Thwaites field heap spreader International 200 manure spreader Baker hedge trimmer  PloughsExperimental NIAE one-way ploughsCultharrow, trailed spike tooth and disc harrows Small tractors and cultivatorsTrusty British Anzani Iron HorseRowtrac Bean rowcrop tractor and attachments Wild Midget tool chassis Coleby cultivator Byron tractor The potato cropDoll one-row potato planter Lanz spinner Tamkin potato spinner Scoop-type lifter Disc and spiral drum Disc and twin shakers Haulm removal NIAE experimental potato harvester Packman potato harvester Sugar beet Douglas single-row root gapper Thinners Sugar beet toppersCatchpole top saver Mern topper Fordson two-row harvesterCaby sugar beet harvester 1948John Salmon beet harvester NIAE groundnut harvester.

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