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Fundamentals of Tractor Design

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The standard tractor becomes productive in agriculture only in combination with implements or trailers. A very few special tractors offer platforms for transport.

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Renius, K.T. (2020). Tractor and Implement. In: Fundamentals of Tractor Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32804-7_7

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