ABSTRACT
Agricultural machinery involves many force and motion functions, some requiring brute strength and a high degree of precision, and others requiring agility, fast reversals, and repetitive accuracy. There are many similarities between the functions needed for ground preparation, cultivation, and harvesting, and those involved in machinery for municipal utility maintenance, new construction, mining, timber harvesting, and many other comparable industrial manufacturing activities. Dependability is a key requirement for agricultural machinery. The local weather and planting and harvest schedules are rarely negotiable. Thus a new facet of maintenance and careful design enters the fluid power force and motion functions as employed in machinery for agricultural activities.
