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A week out from the start of spring, farmers will be hoping the housing season and silage feeding will be soon behind them.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It was at mighty Dunlop Station on the Darling River near Louth in 1888 that the buzz of mechanical shears first drowned out the ...

Liverpool-based S Norton & Co Ltd has announced that full production has been reached after an investment of more than £10 million in plant, cranage and associated site works to increase efficiency ...

In oil-shear brake and clutch units, friction plates and oil work together to slow and accelerate systems. Consider oil-shear clutching: Upon startup, rotating input discs move toward stationary ...

William Scheier died last year at Goodyear's Danville, Va., plant when the cutting wheel on this Alpha Shear machine surged toward him, pinning him down. Credit: Courtesy of Danville Police Department ...