FARM TOOLS

AND
EQUIPMENT
ENGR. JOSHUA A. AGUILAR
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Learning Outcome #1

SELECT AND USE OF

FARM TOOLS
1. Identify the different kinds of Hand Tools.
2. Define the word/s
a. Tool
b. Farm
c. Farm Tool
d. Hand tools
 Tool
Any device or implement used to
carry out mechanical functions
DEFINITION whether manually or by a machine.
OF Farm
TERMS
An area of land and its buildings
used under one management for
growing crops and rearing animals
 Hand Tools
These are objects that are usually
DEFINITION light and are used without the help of
OF animals and machineries.
TERMS
Farm Tools
These are used in land preparations
 One of the cultural practices involved in
crop production is land preparations.
Preparing the area intended for growing
various crops entails the use of farm
tools.
Hand Tools
These are tools made of light
materials and are used manually. Most of
the hand tools are used in cultivating the
area for a small garden or in backyard
gardening.
 • Bolo is used for cutting tall grasses
and weeds and chopping branches of
trees.
Examples :
 • Crowbar is used for digging big
holes and for digging out big stones
and stumps.
Examples :
 • Pick-mattock is used for digging
canals, breaking hard topsoil, and
digging up stones and tree stumps.
Examples :
 • Grab-hoe is used for breaking hard
topsoil and pulverizing soil.

Examples :
 • Spade is used for removing trash or
soil, digging canals or ditches and
mixing soil media.
Examples :
 • Shovel is used in removing trash,
digging, loose soil, moving soil from
one place to another and for mixing
soil media.
Examples :
 • Rake is used for cleaning the
ground and leveling the topsoil.

Examples :
 • Spading fork is used for loosening
the soil, digging out root crops, and
turning over the materials in a
compost heap.
Examples :
 • Light hoe is used for loosening and
leveling soil and digging out furrows
for planting
Examples :
 • Hand trowel is used for loosening
the soil around the growing plants
and putting small amount of manure
fertilizer in the soil.
Examples :
 • Hand cultivator is used for
cultivating the garden plot by
loosening the soil and removing
weeds around the plant.
Examples :
 • Hand fork is used for inter row
cultivation.

Examples :
 • Pruning shears is for cutting
branches of planting materials and
unnecessary branches of plants.
used for cutting weeds.
Examples :
 • Axe is for cutting bigger size post.

Examples :
 • Knife is for cutting planting
materials and for performing other
operations in horticulture
Examples :
 • Sprinklers – used for watering
seedlings and young plants

Examples :
 • Water pails – used for hauling
water, manure and fertilizers

Examples :
 • Sprayers are for spraying
insecticides, foliar fertilizers,
fungicides and herbicides
Examples :
 • Wheelbarrow is used for hauling
trash, manures, fertilizers, planting
materials, and other equipment
Examples :
 • Sickle is a hand-held agricultural
tool with a variously curved blade
typically
Examples :
 The technical know-how on
the safety measures in the use of
farm tools as well as their care and
maintenance require appropriate
knowledge and skills. It helps
prevent farmworkers from any
untoward accident and prolongs
the life span of the various farm
facilities.
FARM
EQUIPMENT
1. Explain the importance of farm
implements in crop production
2. Describe appropriate safety
measures in the use of farm tools
and equipment
3. Discuss procedures in the
maintenance of farm tools and
equipment
 Equipment
This are powered tools machines
DEFINITION used in farming.
OF Farm Implements
TERMS These are accessories pulled by
animals or mounted to machineries
to make the work easier
Hand Tools
These are objects that are
usually light and are used without
the help of animals and machineries.
Preventive Maintenance
An activity or operation done to
prevent malfunction of tools and
equipment and it is done to prolong
the useful life of tools and
equipment.
 • Plows. These are farm implements
either pulled by a working animal or a
tractor. The plow is specifically used
for tilling large areas, making furrows
Examples of and inter-row cultivation. Plows pulled
Farm by working animals are made of either
Implements a combination of metal and wood or
pure metal. They are used to till areas
with a shallower depth than that of the
disc plows which are pulled by
tractors.
DISC PLOW
DISC PLOW
IRON PLOW
 IRON /
WOODEN
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.
TRACTOR
MOUNTED
HARROW
WOODEN
HARROW
 Rotavator. The rotavator is an
implement mounted to a tractor
used for tilling and pulverizing the
soil
ROTAVATOR
 MINI
ROTAVATOR
 Hand-tractor is a small two-wheel
tractor powered by a small gas
engine, usually 6-10 horsepower.
These tractors are usually
HAND
equipped with a rotavator
TRACTOR
attachment. Hand tractors are
guided by two handlebars, similar
to bicycle handles, which are
controlled by the farmer.
 HAND
TRACTOR
 HAND
TRACTOR
OPERATION
 Floating tiller is a walking-type
agricultural tractor commonly
used in waterlogged fields. It is
FLOATING
equipped with front-mounted tilling
TILLER
wheels and a floatation structure.
This tiller can be used on the deep
mudded fields or called "laboy".
 FLOATING
TILLER
OPERATION
 The walk-behind rice transplanter
is designed for transplanting rice
seedlings into a puddled and
WALK BEHIND levelled field. It is recommended for
TRANSPLANTER small to medium sizes of farms. This
requires less time than the manual
transplanting and minimizes the
drudgery and cost of rice transplanting.
 WALK BEHIND
TRANSPLANTER
Combine Harvester. Used for
cutting, threshing, cleaning and
loading in. one operation. It saves 80-
90% labour requirement and 33%
cost of operations compared to
traditional method.
 COMBINE
HARVESTER
 Farmers and agricultural worker
must be aware of the hazards
associated with farm equipment. By
Observing safety procedures, workers
can avoid being injured. GENERAL
EQUIPMENT SAFETY
Keeping equipment in good
working conditions is half the formula
for being safe. The other half is the
ability and awareness of the person
operating the equipment.
Good Working Equipment
+
Able and Aware Operator
=
SAFE
Thank you!