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Chapter 7 Tractor Hitching, Traction, and Testing

Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org

Citation:   (doi:10.13031/2013.41469) in Tractor Hitching, Traction, and Testing Chapter 7 Engineering Principles of Agricultural Machines, 2nd ed., pp. 139-168 St. Joseph, Michigan: ASABE. . Copyright 2006 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Mich.
Authors:   Ajit K. Srivastava, Carroll E. Goering, Roger P. Rohrbach, Dennis R. Buckmaster
Keywords:   Section headings: Tractor Hitching, traction, and testing , Hitching systems , Principles of hitching , Types of hitches , Hitching and weight transfer , Control of hitches , Tires and Traction , Basic tire design , Traction models , Traction predictor spreadsheet , Soil compaction , Traction aids , Tractor testing , Basic principles of tractor testing , Official tractor tests , Problems

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