ABEN 3423

AB Machinery and Mechanization

LECTURE NO. 4 – FARM/AGRICULTURAL

TRACTOR
Farm/Agricultural Tractor…

What is a Farm Tractor?

A self-propelled machine that can be used for supplying power
for (1) pulling mobile machines (such as plow, harrow, trailer,
etc.) and (2) operating the mechanisms of either stationary
(such as water pumps, thresher, milling machine) or mobile
machines (rotovator, corn harvester, mower or grass cutter,
etc.) by means of belt pulley or power take-off.
Farm/Agricultural Tractor…

Method of securing traction:

a. wheel type
b. track type

Drive configuration:
a. two wheel drive (2x2- handtractors, 4x2- four-wheel tractors)
b. four wheel drive (4x4 – four-wheel tractors)
c. track drive (4x2 four-wheel tractors, bulldozers)
Farm/Agricultural Tractor…

Types of tractors according to use:

1. General Purpose or Utility Tractor

2. All-purpose or Row-Crop type
3. Orchard tractor
4. Industrial
5. Garden or Lawn type
Farm/Agricultural Tractor…

Types of tractors according to power output:

CATEGORY Max’m Power Output,KW

a. Category I 15-35
b. Category II 30-100
c. Category III 60-170
d. Category IV 135-300
Power Delivery
✔ Engine Power
✔ PTO power
✔ Drawbar Power
✔ Fluid/Hydraulic Power

Do not exceed 80% of tractor

rated power
Power relationships for agricultural tractor
(maximum amount of power transmitted to various parts)
Tractor Pedals, Levers
and Switches
A-Steering wheel
B-Hand throttle
C-Light switch
D-Brake pedals
E-Foot throttle
F-Main switch
G-Clutch pedal
H-Turn signal switch
I-Hazard warning light switch
J-PTO clutch lever

K-Selector lever (PTO)1

L-Selective control valve levers
M-Gear shift lever
N-Range shift lever
Lamps and indicators (can you name these parts?)
Safety Symbols
• Agricultural equipment shall have safety signs to alert an operator and others
of the risk of personal injury in normal operations and servicing.

• The words CAUTION, WARNING, and DANGER, in that order will indicate
degrees of hazards.

• Use IMPORTANT, ATTENTION, or NOTICE for instructional signs.

Danger
• Danger signs must be used
only where an immediate
hazard exists. Danger signs
must have red as the
predominant color for the
upper panel, black outline
on the borders and a white
lower panel for additional
sign wording.
Caution
• Caution signs shall be used
only to warn against potential
hazards or to caution against
unsafe practices. Caution signs
shall have yellow as the
predominant color, black upper
panel and borders, yellow
lettering or "caution" on the
black panel, and the lower
yellow panel for additional sign
wording. Black lettering shall be
used for additional wording.
Safety
• Safety instruction signs, when
used, must be white with green
upper panel and white letters to
convey the principal message.
Any additional wording on the
sign shall be black letters on the
white background.
International Control Symbols:

Name these symbols…

International Control Symbols:

Name these symbols…

International Control Symbols:
Name these symbols…
International Safety Symbols (learn these symbols…)
Hand Signals
Farm/Agricultural Tractor…

Please read and understand the attached reading

materials—

a. Graphic Symbols
b. Tractor Operation (Safety Instructions)
Farm/Agricultural Tractor…

END OF LECTURE