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    Hand tools such as bolo, crowbar, pick-mattock, spade, shovel, and rake are used for various horticultural operations on small garden areas. Plows, harrows, and rotavators pulled by animals or tractors are used for tilling larger land areas. Common farm equipment includes hand tractors, four-wheel tractors, and water pumps. Knowing how to properly use the various tools, implements, and equipment is essential for successful horticultural operations.

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    Hand tools such as bolo, crowbar, pick-mattock, spade, shovel, and rake are used for various horticultural operations on small garden areas. Plows, harrows, and rotavators pulled by animals or tractors are used for tilling larger land areas. Common farm equipment includes hand tractors, four-wheel tractors, and water pumps. Knowing how to properly use the various tools, implements, and equipment is essential for successful horticultural operations.

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    These are the tools required on preparing a land.

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    ELVIE FARM TOOLS

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    Hand tools such as bolo, crowbar, pick-mattock, spade, shovel, and rake are used for various horticultural operations on small garden areas. Plows, harrows, and rotavators pulled by animals or tractors are used for tilling larger land areas. Common farm equipment includes hand tractors, four-wheel tractors, and water pumps. Knowing how to properly use the various tools, implements, and equipment is essential for successful horticultural operations.

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    Farm Tools in Horticultural Operation

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    Hand tools such as bolo, crowbar, pick-mattock, spade, shovel, and rake are used for various horticultural operations on small garden areas. Plows, harrows, and rotavators pulled by animals or tractors are used for tilling larger land areas. Common farm equipment includes hand tractors, four-wheel tractors, and water pumps. Knowing how to properly use the various tools, implements, and equipment is essential for successful horticultural operations.

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    Farm Tools in Horticultural Operation


                                                Farm tools, implements, and equipment play very important role in
    horticultural operations. Their availability makes the work much easier and faster. However, even if one
    may have the most sophisticated tools and implements, but does not know how to use them, they are
    useless. In order to do horticultural operations successfully, one must have a good working knowledge of
    the tools, implements and equipment before using them. 

    Hand Tools
                   Hand tools are usually light and are used without the help of animals or machines. They are
    being used in performing farm activities which involve small areas like school garden and home garden.

    Bolo is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of tre

    Crowbar is used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps

    Pick-mattock is used for digging canals breaking hard topsoil and for digging up stones and tree stumps

    Grab-hoe is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil


    Spade is used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches, and mixing soil media

    Shovel is used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another and for
    mixing soil media

    Rake is used for cleaning ground and leveling topsoil

    Spading Fork is used for loosening the soil, digging out crops and turning over  
     the materials in a compost heap

    Light hoe is used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows
     for planting
    Hand Trowel is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small
     amount of manure fertilizer in the soil

    Hand cultivator is used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing weeds around
    the plant

    Hand fork is used for inter row cultivation

    Pruning shears is for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants

     Axe is for cutting bigger size post

    Knife is for cutting planting materials and for performing other operations in horticulture
     Springklers are used for watering seedlings and young plants

    Water pails are used for hauling water, manure and fetilizers

    Sprayers is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically 


     used for cutting weeds

     
    Wheel barrow is used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials and other equipment

     Sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically 


    Plows. These are farm implements used in horticultural operations either pulled by a working animal or a
    tractor. The plow is specifically used for tilling large areas, making furrows and inter-row cultivation.
    Plows pulled by working animals are made of either a combination of metal and wood or pure metal.
    They are used to til areas with a shallower depth than that of the disc plows which are pulled by tractors  

    NATIVE PLOW

            Disc Plow 

    Harrow. The native wooden harrow is made of wood with a metal teeth and pulled by a carabao while
    the disc harrow is made of metal mounted to a tractor. Harrows are used for tilling and pulverizing the
    soil

    Disc Harrow 
        Native wooden harrow 

    Rotavator. The rotavator is an impelement attached to a tractor and used for tilling and pulverizing the
    soil

              
    Common Farm Equipment
                      
    Hand tractor is used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land. 

    Four wheel tractor is used to pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing much bigger area of land 

    Water pumps are used to draw irrigation water from a source.

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