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The History Of The Bulldozer 12/03/2008
It could be said that the bulldozer came first before the tractor, but that would be disingenuous. The bulldozer blade was the closest invention to this earth moving vehicle. Imagine a frame with a blade at the front that was harnessed to two mules. The mules would then push the blade into a heap of dirt dumped by a cart and spread the dirt or push into a hole. Of course this meant the mules also had to go back up the dirt pile. This was in 1904 somewhere in England so it was also very muddy. The term bulldozer means literally a shovel like blade, so in fact bulldozer is really only supposed to be about the shovel/blade not the entire vehicle.

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Russian Combine Harvester Manufacturer Increases Exports 05/03/2008
The Russian corporation Gomselmash reported an increase in exports 8 times up from last year in the month of January alone. The manufacturer supplies combine harvesters and other agricultural machines. The company supplies roughly 10 machines a day to their foreign trade partners. Gomselmash said they exported machines to the amount of $98 million last year and $55 million in 2006. The company sells to the Russian Federation and Ukraine as well as supplying combine harvesters to Czech Republic, Iran and Argentina. And supplies more than 1000 combine harvesters to the Belarusian agricultural producers.

Reflecting the industry high that farm equipment manufacturers are feeling all a...

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Hitachi Excavators Displayed At Samoter Exhibition 02/03/2008
It has been 3 years since the last one so there will be much anticipation to see what the giants of the construction industry have in store for us this year. It is the Samoter exhibition held in Verona, Italy from March 9 to 27th that brings together the European construction industry once every 3 years for the exhibit. Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) will be joining around 1,000 other exhibitors in displaying new developments, and new additions to their product ranges. The Verona Exhibition Centre will be hosting at least 90 countries that will be represented at the exhibit and 100,000 visitors that will be attending the event, which brings together some of the latest innovations ...

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Zimbabwe Farmers Not Getting Allocated Combine Harvesters 01/03/2008
The farm mechanization program established by the government of Zimbabwe in 2004 provided tractors, combine harvesters, upgrade irrigation facilities as well as purchasing fertilizers for new farmers under the land reform takeover. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development was given 1.5 trillion in 2004 by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe dollars to procure these machines for the new farmers. But some farmers have complained that government officials, politicians and civil servants allocated the equipment to themselves leaving some farmers without harvesting equipment and unable to harvest the grown wheat. This meant that many of the new farmers that acquired farm land in t...

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