Tools and machinery for the smallholder : an essential guide to their use and maintenance / John Bezzant.

Understanding how the compact tractor works -- Tractor safety -- The safe use and maintenance of chainsaws -- How to operate manual winches, portable electric winches and jacks -- How to use and maintain brushcutters -- ATVs and RTVs -- Hand tools for the smallholder -- How to use saws -- Welding -- Essential tractor implements -- Tow-behind implements -- App. Tool and machinery suppliers.

A wide range of tools and equipment, from compact tractors to chainsaws and from winches to torque wrenches, are employed on today's productive and efficiently organized smallholdings. There are few publications that provide the smallholder with comprehensive, technical, and maintenance information and this well-illustrated book helps to fill a gap.