Antique Tractor Bible: The Complete Guide to Buying, Using and Restoring Old Farm Tractors (Motorbooks Workshop) | 
 enlarge | Author: Spencer Yost
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
Buy New: $97.72
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 580899
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0760303355
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2252075
UPC: 752748303355
EAN: 9780760303351
ASIN: 0760303355
Publication Date: October 16, 1998
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Condition: Book is brand new, and has never been opened. Thousands of satisfied customers!
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Product Description
Everything you need to keep your old iron alive and well! Filled with topics such as how to choose a brand and model, how to evaluate used tractors, how to maintain your tractor, and how the basic systems in a tractor work. Learn about using your restored tractor, basic maintenance and troubleshooting, restoration techniques, tools needed, and more. Appendix includes parts sources, archive addresses, literature sources, and calculations.
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 Antique Tractor Bible: The Complete Guide... November 23, 2007
This is a good all-around tractor book with a lot of historical tidbits about different makes of tractors. If you are interested in one particular brand/style etc..., this may not be the book for you. If you simply like tractors, and enjoy learning reading general information about antique tractors, then this is a good addition to your book collection. It offers information on a few interesting and not so typical tractor types.
 The book to buy before you buy the tractor! April 17, 1999
46 out of 50 found this review helpful
Whether you're a seasoned mechanic or a neophyte who doesn't know which end of the wrench to hold, Spencer Yost's Antique Tractor Bible is a comprehensive guide to buying, using and restoring antique tractors. There is enough information here, so even if you don't intend to do your own work, you'll know how things are done and why. Additionally, the author shows how to use your antique tractor and equipment. This book is not model-specific, and the author touches on many different tractors. This is a major new resource work that will become indispensable to antique tractor owners. I wish the photographs were in color, which is a minor complaint in light of the wealth of information presented.
For expert or beginner, shop shelf or coffee table April 16, 1999
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
This is a good all-round reference for restoring antique tractors. You expect a good discussion of "how-to" information on restoring old tractors. The book has that and many illustrations to help you understand particular repair techniques. Yost has included useful tips on nearly every page. These tips cut to the heart of the topic he's explaining. He also has a useful section on how to choose and operate your old machinery. A section on shows, demonstrations and pulls helps you find a way to show off your new pride and joy. Among the more useful information is a good section on further specialized references for particular tractor brands, and several pages listing parts sources for old machinery. Old-timers in the restoration business will appreciate the references, while beginners will benefit from basic explanations that more technical manuals assume you already know.
The encyclopedia of tractor collecting. April 5, 1999
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
If you were going to buy just one book about tractor collecting this would be the one to buy.
Well researched. Wished I'd had it when I got started! October 7, 1998
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
Mr. Yost has done a fine job in researching, exhibiting and explaining the antique tractor hobby. So many details from "why should I be involved in the hobby?" to trailering your newly restored tractor to that favorite show are covered. He answers many of the questions most of us have learned the hard way and does it in such a way as to inspire, rather than to alarm. The book reaches out to one comtemplating the hobby of antique tractor restoration like a friendly, helping hand and performs as a lantern, guiding one through the other wise dark and mysterious avenues sometimes associated with the hobby. Mr. Yosts book is as essential a tool for the beginner, or those of us who have "been there, done that", as that old dog curled next to the shop stove and our grandfather's words of wisdom echoing in our mind as we scrape, clean, bang and paint these loveable machines which are our agricultural heritage. Three cheers for Mr. Yost!
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