Agricultural Tools, Implements, and Equipment

This set of vocabulary flashcards covers agricultural tools including digging, cultivating, cutting, harvesting, carpentry, and measuring tools, as well as farm implements and equipment used in farming operations.

Crowbar

Used for digging Lyles, stones and tree stumps

Pick-Mattock

Used for digging canals, breaking hard top soil, and digging stones and tree stumps

Grab hoe

Is used for breaking hard soil, and pulverizing soil

Spade

Used for removing trash, soil, digging ditches, and mixing soil media

Spading fork

Used for loosening soil, digging out root crops, and turning over the materials in a compost heap

Light Hoe

Used for the same purposes as a grab hoe

Hand trowel

Used for cultivating soil around the plants and setting small amounts of manure and compost in the soil

Hand fork

Used for the same purposes as a hand trowel

Hand Cultivator

Used for cultivating the topsoil

Rake

Used for cleaning ground and leveling

Bolo

Used for cutting weeds, bamboo poles, and pegs for construction and trellis

Pruning shear

Used for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants

Axe

Used for cutting trunks, branches, trees, and bigger posts

Knives

Used for cutting plant materials, harvesting, and performing other farm activities

Scythe

Used for harvesting rice and cutting grasses for animal feeds

Hammer

Used to draw, remove, and drive nails

Cross cut saw

Used for cutting wood and construction

Pliers

Used for repairing tools and other carpentry work

Chisel

Used to smoot the wooden handles of garden tools and implements

Weighing balance

Used for weighing harvesting agricultural inputs such as fertilizers

Meter Stick

Used for measuring garden plots and height of plants

Tape Measure

Used for measuring the distance of planting and layouting an area

Tape Ruler

Used to measure $5-10\,meters$

Knapstack sprayer

Used for applying pesticides and foliar fertilizers

Pail

Used for hauling water, manure, and fertilizers

Plow

Used for tilling wide areas, making furrows, and interrow cultivation

Harrow

Used for pulverizing the soil after plowing

Rokstor

A modern harrow

Axis Thresher

Separates the seeds from the stacks

Combine Harvesting

Combines six farm operations such as gathering, transporting, reaping, threshing, and cleaning crops