discuss the difference among farm tools implements and equipment including their importance and care tips
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Farm tools, implements, and equipment
play very important role in horticultural operations. Their availability makes the work much easier and faster. However, even if one may have the most sophisticated tools and implements, but does not know how to use them, they are useless. In order to do horticultural operations successfully, one must have a good working knowledge of the tools, implements and equipment before using them.
Hand Tools
Hand tools are usually light and are used without the help of animals or machines. They are being used in performing farm activities which involve small areas like school garden and home garden.
Bolo is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of tree
Crowbar is used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps
Pick-mattock is used for digging canals breaking hard topsoil and for digging up stones and tree stumps
Grab-how is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil
Spade is used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches, and mixing soil media
Shovel is used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another and for mixing soil media
Rake is used for cleaning ground and leveling topsoil
Spading Fork is used for loosening the soil, digging out crops and turning over the materials in a compost heap
Light hoe is used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows
for planting
Hand Trowel is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small amount of manure fertilizer in the soil
Hand cultivator is used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing weeds
around the plant
Hand fork is used for inter row cultivation
Pruning shears is for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants
Axe is for cutting bigger size post
Knife is for cutting planting materials and for performing other operations in horticulture
Springklers are used for watering seedlings and young plants
Water pails are used for hauling water, manure and fetilizers
Sprayers is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically
used for cutting weeds
Wheel barrow is used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials and other equipment
Sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically
Farm Implements
These are accessories which are being pulled by working animals or mounted to machineries (hand tractor, tractor) which are usually used in preparation of land. These are usually made of special kind of metal
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. Plows pulled by working animals are made of either a combination of metal and wood or pure metal. They are used to til areas with a shallower depth than that of the disc plows which are pulled by tractors
NATIVE PLOW
Disc 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
Native wooden harrow
Disc Harrow
Rotavator. The rotavator is an impelement attached to a tractor and used for tilling and pulverizing the soil
Common Farm Equipment
These are machineries used in horticultural operations especially in vegetable production. They are used in land preparation and in transporting farm inputs and products. This equipment needs a highly skilled operator to use.
Hand tractor is used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land
Four wheel tractor is used to pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing much bigger area of land
Water pumps are used to draw irrigation water from a source.
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