Lesson 1.1: Agricultural Tools Flashcards
Used in farm activities involving small areas such as gardens
Hand tools
Used for cutting tall grasses, weeds, and chopping branches of trees
Bolo
Used for digging big holes and digging out big stones and stumps
Crowbar
Used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil, and for digging up stones and tree stumps
Pick-Mattock
Used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches and mixing soil media.
Spade
Used for removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another and for mixing soil media.
Shovel
Used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil
Rake
Used for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants.
Pruning Shears
Used for watering seedlings and young plants
Sprinkler
Farm implements either pulled by a working animal or tractor
Plows
Pulled by animals
Native
Pulled by machines
Disc
Native wooden type is made of wood with metal teeth and pulled by a carabao, while the disc harrow is made of metal mounted to a tractor
Harrow
It is an implement mounted to a tractor used for tilling and pulverizing the soil
Rotavator
Used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land.
Hand Tractor
Used to draw irrigation water from a source
Water Pumps
Farm equipment that threshes grain by removing the seeds from the stalks and husks. This is done by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out
Thresher
This machine is used to peel the skin of corn and make the maize removed from the cob
Corn Dehusker
Used for the harvesting of rice or wheat
Rice Harvester
These are manual. Trimmers work as large, scissor-like devices for trimming
Grass Cutter
loosening soil and removing weeds
Hand Trowel
