After the blog post about history of wine growing #1 (the link here), I want to describe the technical history after 1945 to you. Time after war was a wine growing "hole", that means that a lot of vignerons died at the front-lines. I am sure they would have loved to work in their vineyards as to fight other people. Therefore a deficit of vineyard workers, vignerons changed vineyards and machinery. The high density plantings where not useful anymore, wider rows for larger tractors were in common. Instead of 10.000 vines per ha, 2000-3000 should do the same, of course with higher yields per plant. Wine in this time was not a drink of pleasure, it was more daily food (that's why a lot of wines were sweet). Very understandable I think.

Looks like a small tank, but this is a spraying device of the "next generation". It fits perfect to small narrow rows and steep hills. But no protection of the user going behind.

First high-performance crusher with stone roll threads and to work for 2 people.

Yes, there are still some small artisan coopers in my region, and these are the tools they still use (some) and used decades ago.

The tractor industry made big progress in the 50ies and 60ies. A vigneron who had a tractor like this could say "I've got a Porsche". And truly this is a Porsche wineyard tractor with 22 horsepower!