TLE 9 – AGRI-CROP PRODUCTION

Activity Sheet 1
Farm Tools and Equipment in Agricultural Crop Operation
Time: 2:00-3:00 PM

Direction: Copy the following information in your separate notebook.

CLASSIFICATION OF TOOLS

A. Cutting Tools
1. Bolo. This is used for cutting grasses and weeds and chopping branches
of trees.
2. Axe. It is used for cutting bigger size post.
3. Pruning shears. This is for cutting branches of planting materials and
unnecessary branches of plants.
4. Knife. It is for cutting planting materials and for performing other
operations in horticulture.
5. Pruning saw. It is a tool with the same sharp teeth as saws used for cutting
lumber. But pruning saws are intended for trimming live shrubs and trees.

B. Land Preparation Tools

1. Grab-hoe. It is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.
2. Rake. A horticultural implement consisting of a toothed bar fixed transversely to a
handle, or tines fixed to a handle, and used to collect leaves, hay, grass, etc.

C. Cultivation Tools
1. Hand cultivator. It is used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and
removing weeds around the plant.
2. Hand fork. This is used for inter-row cultivation.
3. Light hoe. A light (as in light-weight) hoe is a hand-held garden tool. It is used to
weed between rows of plants or vegetables. It is a long pole with a squarish metal
blade on one end. The blade is pushed into the top of the soil to chop off weeds at
their roots.

D. Digging Tools
1. Spading Fork. It is used to dig up plants. You can use it in combination with a
spade, using the digging fork to loosen up the soil.
2. Spade. It is a hand tool used to dig or loosen ground, or to break up lumps in the
soil.
3. Hand Trowel. Used for transplanting bedding flowers.
4. Post hole digger. Digs deep narrow holes.
5. Bulb planter. It is a foolproof way of getting the depth correct. This is important, so
plant shoots don’t have to go too far to see light and to keep tall plants from flopping
over into the dirt. Using bulb planters can take the guesswork out of planting bulbs
and make the process much quicker.
6. Pick-mattock. This is used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and for digging
up stones and tree stumps.
7. Shovel. It 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.

E. Waterers
1. Sprinklers. It is used for watering seedlings and young plants.
2. Garden hose. It is used to water plants in a garden or lawn, or to convey water to
a sprinkler for the same purpose.

F. Sprayers
• are for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides, and herbicides.

G. Transporting Tools
1. Wheel barrow. It is used for hauling, transporting manures, fertilizers, planting
materials and other equipment.
2. Water pails. It is used for hauling or transporting water, manure, and fertilizers.

H. Harvesting Tool
1. Sickle. It is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically for
cutting weeds or harvesting rice.
2. Scythe. An agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or reaping crops. It has largely
been replaced by horse-drawn and then tractor machinery.

Farm Implements
These are accessories that are being pulled by working animals or mounted to
different types of machinery (hand tractor, tractor) which are usually used in the
preparation of land.
1. Wooden 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.
2. Wooden harrow. It is made of wood with a metal tooth 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.
3. Disk plow. Employs round, concave disks of hardened steel, sharpened and
sometimes serrated on the edge, with diameters ranging from 20 to 38 inches
(50 to 95 centimeters).
4. Disc Harrow. It is made of metal mounted to a tractor. Harrows are used for
tilling and pulverizing the soil.
5. Rotavator. It is an implement mounted to a tractor used for tilling and
pulverizing the soil.