Antique Farm Equipment. The Elsebree Collection

ELSBREE, Chuck

ISBN 10: 187781041X / ISBN 13: 9781877810411

Published by Rayve Productions, 2012

About this Item

71pp. Quarto hardbound, tight binding. Clean boards, worn on corners, sticker on rear. Interior clean throughout.

Seller Inventory # 129176

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Antique Farm Equipment. The Elsebree Collection
• Publisher: Rayve Productions
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 187781041X
• ISBN 13: 9781877810411
• Binding: HARDCOVER
• Edition: Hardcover edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • AGRICULTURE

About this title

Synopsis

Over 200 beautiful photos of turn-of-the-19th-century farm, ranch and other related implements manufactured prior to early tractor development. Author and collector, Chuck Elsbree identifies many of the manufacturers and models. He effectively describes the functional and mechanical purposes and operating features of the equipment. Includes Seeders, Cultivators, Harrows, Plows, Haying Equipment, and over 30 additional pieces of equipment, including Subsoil Ripper, Wood Tank Sprayer, Corn Kernal & Husk Remover, Windmill & Pumb, Fertilizer Spreader, Bemis Plant Setter, Fordson Tractor, Oxhead Yoke, Single Trees, Slip Scraper, Manual Fresno, Fresno Canal, Road Leveler, Flatbed Wagon, Cargo Wagon, Hand-Drawn Fire Hose Cart, Wine Presses, Scythe & Stable Fork, Forge, and more. All of the equipment is on display at the Elsbree Family Vineyard Ranch in Windsor California.

About the Author

Chuck Elsbree grew up working on the family ranch in Windsor California during the 1940s and 1950s. For most of his professional career, Chuck worked as a research and development engineer in the aerospace industry and helped develop the missiles used in the Apollo Space Flight Program, including program manager for developing the hardware used on the Lunar Lander. Chuck has been granted six different patents.