AB POWER, MACHINERY & MECHANIZATION

Percentage of work of plow used in cutting furrow slice

43%

Seeding directly into previously undisturbed soil

No-till

Weight of clean threshed grain/grain

Threshing recovery

Distinguishing symbol affixed to products by manufacturers in order to identify them as his goods

Trademark

If a sprocket is used for a chain, a sheave is used for

V-belt

The true point of hitch or center-of-pull of an implement

Center of power

Amount of any material applied per unit treated by a sprayer

Application rate

When pipeline is painted with green and white color, the safety color means that the pipe contains

Liquid of inherently low hazard

The soil profile modified by tillage or amendments for use by plant roots

Root bed

Represents the interrelationship between capacity, head, power, NPSH, and the efficiency of the pump

Performance curve

Filling up of water in the pump to evacuate the entrapped through a vent and create a liquid seal inside the casing

Priming

The grain-straw ration for samples to be used for testing should between the range of

0.5-0.65

Type of gear used for power take-off drive

Spline shaft gear

Machine element used to tighten bolt

Nut

Device that generates electricity from sunlight

Photovoltaic

Type of rice furnace that burn the fuel while it is being spread in a circular pattern inside the combustion chamber

Cyclone furnace

Maximum pumping rate requirement for LOKS

40 strokes per minute

A hand operated tractor suitable for primary and secondary tillage used when field has been soaked for at least half a day to soften the soil

Puddling-type floating tiller

Optimum axle speed for puddling-type floating tiller

250 rpm

Sum of all resistance on the tractor

Running resistance

Shift implement's weight to the tractor's drive wheel in order to improve traction

Weight transfer

International testing center for tractor

NEBRASKA

When a machine is driven directly from the shaft of the power source, the power is transmitted through

Direct drive

Size designation for agricultural V-belt

HA, HB, HC, HD, HE

Gripping device between power source

Clutch

Used to transmit power between two intersecting shafts usually when the angle between them is variable

Universal joint

Type of plow adapted in breaking different types of soil for turning and covering crop residues

Mouldboard plow

Power required in pulling an implement

Drawbar power

Tillage equipment which displaces and shatters soil, used to reduce soil strength and to bury or mix plant materials and fertilizers in the tilled layer

Primary tillage equipment

Tillage implement consisting of two or four gangs of concave disc

Disk harrow

Procedure in which planting is made directly into an essentially unprepared seedbed

Zero tillage

Secondary tillage operation which pulverizes, smoothens, and packs the soil during seedbed preparation and also controls weeds

Harrowing

For to propel an implement in the direction of travel

Draft

The angle in a vertical plane perpendicular to the direction of travel between a centralized tool or reference axis and the soil surface

Tilt angle

Part of the mouldboard plow that receives the furrow slice from the share and turns to break, crush and pulverize the soil

Mouldboard

Part of the mouldboard plow which is used to cut the soil

Share

Part of the mouldboard plow bottom which helps to counteract the side pressure exerted by the furrow slice

Landside

Type of implement which is directly attached to the tractor and its power lift is dependent upon the tractor engine for its general operation

Integral-mounted

Type of implement which is supported by two or three wheels and is hitched to the drawbar of the tractor where it is being pulled

Trailing

Type of plow which is equipped with plow bodies which turns the furrow slice to one side only

One-way plow

Type of plow which has two sets of bodies mounted symmetrically on a shareframe which can be rotated over 180 degrees along the longitudinal axis

Revesible plow

Percentage of work done in pulling an average plow

18%

Percentage of work of plow used in turning slice of soil

34%

Point in which all the horizontal and vertical forces in the plow meets

Center of resistance

Primary tillage plow for rice farming that is attached in replacement to the cage wheel of a power tiller

Spiral

Angle of the disc plow in reference to the vertical plane

Title angle

Angle of the disc plow in reference to the direction of travel of the plow

Disc angle

Power requirement of a rotary tiller for primary tillage

30 kW/m

A plow primarily for loosening the soil

Chisel plow

A plow that is used to break up plow sole

Subsoiler

Gang arrangement on a disc harrow consisting of two gangs of discs placed end to end which throws the soil in opposite direction

Single-action

A gang arrangement often called as "tandem harrow"

Double-action

Gang arrangement in which the harrow is not centrally located with respect to the tractor position

Offset

A trailing harrow that is hitched too high to the drawbar of the tractor will

Have too shallow penetration

Actual coverage rate/total field time

Effective field capacity

Mouldboard plow

Higher draft than disc plow

Tillage operation traditionally performed in preparing a seedbed for a given crop grown

Conventional tillage

Implement with integral power unit designed to provide both mobility and power for performing agricultural operation

Self-propelled machine

Used to place seed in a furrow

Seeder

Used to place plant parts to a prepared furrow

Planter

Machine that prepares the soil, meters the seed, and positions seed in one operation

Drill

Machine which is cylindrical in shape designed for planting germinated rice seed in rows

Drum seeder

Scattering of seeds on the surface of prepared soil

Broadcasting

Planting method wherein seeds are deposited, either singly or in group, in a water soluble tape under controlled condition

Seed-tape planting

Machine that places rice seedlings at a proper spacing on a well-prepared paddy soil

Rice transplanter

Primary factor that affects the performance of the sprayer

Sprayer-particle size

A sprayer apparatus consisting of pressure source and controls and specifically employing an over-the-crop boom with automizer arrange to provide uniform coverage of the treated surfaces

Boom sprayer

Field sprayer that is being carried at the back

Knapsack sprayer

Mechanical or thermal device that produces a liquid dispersion having a volume median diameter of less than 50 um

Aerosol generator

Apparatus which consists of a hopper, a metering unit, and a distribution device, that uses either gravity, centrifugal force, or pendulum action to spread granules to the surface of the entire area to be treated

Broadcast spreader

Machine that cuts rice stalks and places them on a window when they are gathered and bound into sheaves and carried to a thresher

Reaper

Machine that detaches the grain from a panicle

Thresher

Machine used in separating the kernels from the cob

Sheller

Part of a rice thresher which encloses the threshing cylinder and allows the separation of the grains from the panicle

Concave

Type of mechanical thresher in which rice stalks are fed into the threshing chamber while the stalks are either mechanically or manually held during threshing operation

Hold-on thresher

Type of throw-in thresher wherein rice-in-stalks are fed in between the cylinder and the concave and go directly out of the threshing chamber

Through-flow thresher

Type of throw-in thresher which moves the materials being threshed in a helical manner around the threshing cylinder

Axial-flow thresher

Knife velocity/forward velocity of rice reaper

1.35

Mass of fuel consumed per unit of time/measured power

Specific fuel consumption

Tillage or soil preparation in which plant residues are specifically left on or near the surface

Mulch tillage

Center to center distance between overlapping broadcast applications

Swath

Portion of the combine comprising the mechanism for gathering crops

Star wheel

Horizontal distance, perpendicular to the direction of travel, an implement performs its intended function in one pass

Operating width

Fluid or solid used to propel or transport chemical

Carrier

Portion of implement in terms of force per unit area of tilled cross-section

Specific draft

CIF

Cost, insurance, freight

A clutch that is used to drive a machine element in only one direction

Overrunning clutch

A clutch that limits the amount of torque or power that is transmitted through the shaft to the driven member

Slip clutch

Unbroken side of a furrow

Furrow wall

Raise ridge formed when plowing starts in the middle of strip

Back furrow

Open trench left during plowing when the strips are finished

Dead furrow

Soil-handling implement which turn uniform ridges of soil to a predetermined shape

Bed shaper

When a disc plow is set on vertical position, the plow will

Not penetrate

Tillage system which consist of fewer or less energy intensive optimum compared with conventional tillage

Reduce tillage

30% or less of the soil surface is tilled, the tillage operation employed

Strip tillage

Soil-tool reaction in which soil slides over the surface of the tillage tool without significant adhesion

Scouring

Agricultural tractors, self-propelled machines, implement design fro field operation

Agricultural field equipment

A self propelled implement

Does not require a tractor to operate

A booklet in which adjustments, care and maintenance, and safety of the machine are indicated

Operator's manual

The line of pull that is straight from the center-of-load through the point where the drawbar of the draft is attached to the drawbar of the tractor

Vertical line draft