SELECT AND USING FARM TOOLS Flashcards
are usually light and are used without the help of animals or
machines.
Farm tools
is for cutting bigger size post.
Axe
is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of
trees.
Bolo
is used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones
and stumps.
Crowbar
is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.
Grab-hoe
used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the
soil and removing weeds around the plant
Hand Cultivator
used for inter row cultivation.
Hand Fork
is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants
and putting small amount of manure fertilizer in the soil.
Hand Trowel
is for cutting planting materials and for performing other
operations in horticulture.
Knife
is used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out
furrows for planting.
Light Hoe
is used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and for
digging up stones and tree stumps.
Pick mattock
is for cutting branches of planting materials and
unnecessary branches of plants.
Pruning shears
is used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.
rake
used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from
one place to another and for mixing soil media.
Shovel
a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade
typically used for cutting weeds.
Sickle
is used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches and
mixing soil media.
spade
used for loosening the soil, digging out root crops and
turning over the materials in a compost heap.
Spading fork
are for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and
herbicides.
sprayers
for watering seedlings and young plants.
sprinkler
is used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting
materials and other equipment.
wheel borrow
is for hauling water, manure and fertilizers.
water pail
These are accessories which are being pulled by working animals or
mounted to machineries (hand tractor, tractor) which are usually used in the
preparation of land. These are usually made of a special kind of metal.
Farm implements
are farm implements either pulled by a working animal or a
tractor. The ___ is specifically used for tilling large areas, making furrows and
inter row cultivation.
Plow
2 types of plow
Native plow
Disc plow