Overview
This lesson introduces basic farm tools, implements, and equipment used in agriculture and crop production, focusing on their types and specific uses.
Hand Tools
- Hand tools are lightweight and operated without animals or machines, ideal for small areas.
- Bolo is used for cutting tall grasses, weeds, and chopping branches.
- Crowbar is for digging large holes and removing big stones and stumps.
- Pick mattock is for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil, and unearthing stones or stumps.
- Grub hoe is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.
- Spade is for removing trash, digging, and mixing soil.
- Shovel is for digging loose soil, moving soil, and mixing.
- Rake is used for cleaning ground surfaces and leveling soil.
- Spading fork helps loosen soil, dig root crops, and turn compost.
- Light hoe is for loosening and leveling soil, and digging furrows.
- Hand trowel is used for loosening soil near plants and applying small manure amounts.
- Hand cultivator is for loosening soil and removing weeds around plants.
- Hand fork is for cultivation between plant rows.
- Pruning shears are for cutting branches and unnecessary plant growth.
- Axe is used to cut bigger wood pieces.
- Knife is for cutting planting materials and horticulture tasks.
- Sprinklers water seedlings and young plants.
- Water pail is for carrying water, manure, and fertilizers.
- Sprayers are for applying insecticides, fertilizers, fungicides, and herbicides.
- Wheelbarrow is for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials, and equipment.
- Sickle is for cutting weeds with its curved blade.
Farm Implements
- Farm implements are accessories pulled by animals or attached to machines, mainly for land preparation.
- Plows (native and disc) till large areas, form furrows, and assist with inter-row cultivation.
- Harrows (native wooden or metal) till and pulverize the soil, often pulled by carabao or tractor.
- Rotavator is a tractor-mounted implement used for tilling and pulverizing soil.
Farm Equipment
- Farm equipment refers to larger machinery for land preparation and transporting farm inputs and outputs.
- Hand tractor is used to pull plows and harrows for land preparation.
- Four-wheel tractor prepares larger lands by pulling plows and harrows.
- Water pump supplies irrigation water from its source to the field.
- Rice combined harvester performs reaping, threshing, cleaning, and bagging rice in one process.
Key Terms & Definitions
- Hand tools — Small, manually operated tools for farming tasks.
- Farm implements — Accessories pulled by animals or machines for land preparation.
- Farm equipment — Large machinery used in crop production.
- Plow — Tool for tilling soil and making furrows.
- Harrow — Implement to pulverize and smooth soil after plowing.
- Rotavator — Tractor-mounted tool for tilling and aerating soil.
- Rice combined harvester — Machine that reaps, threshes, cleans, and bags rice.
Action Items / Next Steps
- Review the uses of each tool, implement, and equipment discussed.
- Be prepared to identify and explain their functions in future activities.