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Farm Tools and Equipment

This document provides descriptions and functions of various farm tools, equipment, and materials used in agriculture. It categorizes and lists hand tools like bolo, crowbar, pick-mattock, and spade used for digging and soil preparation. It also outlines farm implements like native plow and disc plow, farm equipment like hand tractor and rice combine harvester, and other materials used for hauling, spraying, and power generation on farms. Definitions are given for each item's purpose and use in agricultural operations.

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Farm Tools and Equipment

This document provides descriptions and functions of various farm tools, equipment, and materials used in agriculture. It categorizes and lists hand tools like bolo, crowbar, pick-mattock, and spade used for digging and soil preparation. It also outlines farm implements like native plow and disc plow, farm equipment like hand tractor and rice combine harvester, and other materials used for hauling, spraying, and power generation on farms. Definitions are given for each item's purpose and use in agricultural operations.

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Name: Jodie Mer C.

Dayama Course/Year/Section: BSA-2A


Subject: CS201 Rating:

Applying what you’ve learned


Activity No.1 Classification of Farm Tools and Equipment
Direction: Draw and give the functions of the different farm tools and equipment. After that,
answer the guide questions properly.

A. HAND TOOLS
1.BOLO
Function: Is a general utility tool when
other garden tools are not available. It
is also used in cutting grasses, and
digging small holes for planting.

2.CROWBAR
Function: Is used for digging holes,
transplanting fruit trees and digging
out big stones and stumps.

3.PICK-MATTOCK
Function: Used for dinging, breaking
hard and compact soil. The pointed
part is used for digging out stumps and
stones.

4.GRAB-HOE
Function: Is used for breaking hard and
compact soil as well as pulverizing the
soil.

5.SPADE
Function: Is used for constructing
ditches or canals. It is also used for
digging out a garden plot or breaking
apart large soil clamps.

6.RAKE
Function: Is used for leveling and
pulverizing the soil. It is also used for
removing stones and weeds.
7.SPADING FORK
Function: Is used to break up the
ground, dig bulbs, and turn soil or
compost. The garden fork will allow
you to gently loosen the soil without
damaging your crops.

8.LIGHT HOE
Function: Is used for loosening and
leveling soil and dinging out furrows
for planting.

9.HAND TROWEL
Function: It is used to dig holes in the
garden soil for nursery transplants as
well as to gently cultivate around the
plant.

10. SHOVEL
Function: Shovel is a tool used to dig
as well as to move loose, granular
materials (like dirt, gravel, grain, or
snow) from one spot to another.

11. TINE HAND CULTIVATOR


Function: Is used for cultivating the
garden plot by loosening the soil and
removing young weeds around the
plants.

12. HAND FORK


Function: Is for inter row cultivation.

13. PRUNING SHEARS


Function: Is used for cutting unwanted
small branches, harvesting vegetables,
and cutting flowers.

14. AXE
Function: Is used for cutting bigger
branches as well as post.
15. KNIFE
Function: Is for cutting small and light
materials used in farm operations.

B. FARM IMPLEMENTS
1.NATIVE PLOW
Function: Is an implement which is
made of wood with an iron share
point. It consists of body, shaft pole,
share and handle. Primary tillage

2.DISC PLOW
Function: A plow adapted especially
for work in sticky or hard dry soils
by replacement of the moldboard
plow bottom with one or more
concave steel discs.

3.NATIVE WOODEN HARROW


Function: Is made of wood with a
metal tooth and pulled by draft
Carabao. Harrow is used for tilling
and pulverizing the soil.

4.DISC HARROW
Function: Is made of metal mounted
to a tractor.
5.ROTAVATOR
Function: Is an implement mounted
to a tractor used for tilling and
pulverizing the soil.

C. FARM EQUIPMENTS
1.HAND TRACTOR
Function: Hand tractor is used to
pull a plow and harrow in preparing
a large area of land.

2.FOUR WHEEL TRACTOR


Function: Four wheel tractors are
used to pull disc plow and disc
harrow in preparing much bigger
area. Water pumps are used to draw
irrigation water from a source.

3.RICE COMBINE HARVESTER


Function: The Rice Combine
Harvester makes the harvesting
process easier by combining six
operations such as gathering,
transporting, reaping, threshing,
cleaning and bagging into one
machine. It is the modern and
efficient way of harvesting rice
4.RICE REAPER
Function: A rice reaper harvester is
a machine to cut down rice panicles
at harvest. The cut panicles are laid
down by the machine for collection.
There are different models. Reapers
can be attached to a power tiller (see
picture on the right) or can be
standalone machines (on the left).

5.CORN SHELLER
Function: A corn Sheller is a hand-
held device or a piece of machinery
to shell corn kernels off the cob for
feeding to livestock or for other
uses.

D. OTHER MATERIALS, TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT


1.WATER PAILS
Function: For hauling water, manure,
and fertilizer.

2.SPRINKLER
Function: Used for watering seedlings
and young plants.
3.WHEEL BARROW
Function: Used for hauling trash,
manures, fertilizers planting material
and other equipment.

4.TRIGGER SPRAYER
Function: It is used for applying liquid
substances such as fertilizers and
pesticides to plants during the crop
growth cycle. It is used for applying
water and water/chemical solutions
containing acids or caustic materials
for crop-performance

5.KNAPSACK SPRAYER
Function: Knapsack sprayers are used
for spraying insecticides and pesticides
on small tress' shrubs and row crops up
to 2.5 m height.

6.POWER SPRAYER
Function: Are used to spray thick
bushes and tall trees by foresters. It is
also conventional in agriculture,
horticulture, and sericulture.

7.GENERATOR ENGINE
Function: A machine that converts
mechanical energy into electrical
energy that used for irrigation and
other electrical aspects.
8.SOIL AUGER
Function: Used to dig fence post holes,
plant bulbs/grass plugs, and other
gardening/landscaping purposes. A
garden auger is much more time-
efficient than a shovel and also offers
plants improved soil-to-root contact.

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