(Agricultural Crop Production)

Use of Farm Tools and Equipment

and Maintenance
Quarter 1- Module 1
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 USE OF FARM TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT AND-
MAINTE.NANCE
Agricultural Crop Production Exploratory Course pages 7-24 This module deepens your understanding on the different
farm tools
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Learning Objectives:
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 Identify farm tools and equipment according to use;
 Conduct pre-operation check-up in line with the manufacturer’s
manual;
 Use appropriate tools and equipment for the job requirement
according to manufacturer's specifications and instruction .

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 Clean tools and equipment after use in line with farm
procedures;
 Perform routine check-up and maintenance;
 Perform preventive maintenance by following the procedures in
sharpening and oiling farm tools and
equipment.

In doing this module, the following

are some reminders:

1. Take the pretest before

answering the module.
2. Read the instructions carefully
Prepared by: before doing each task.
3. Answer all the exercises.
JOHN A. CAVE 4. Take the posttest.
Teacher III 5. Use a separate sheet in
Pugaro Integrated School
answering all the activities.

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 II. Directions: Read carefully the text. Write TRUE if the
I. Directions: Read the questions carefully and select the best statement is correct and FALSE if the statement is incorrect.
answer by writing only the letter of your choice on a separate
sheet of paper. ______1. It is not advisable to use the stone in a stabilized way.

1. Which of the following is an example of a digging tool? ______2. Tools that are worn out should be separated and be
a. Bolo b. Crowbar c. Grab hoe fixed immediately to avoid accident.
2. Which tool is used for cutting grasses? ______3. When sharpening, try to maintain the original factory
a. Shovel b. Bolo c. Crowbar bevel or angle.
3. What tool does NOT belong to the group?
______4. Always push the file across the blade in a motion
a. Crowbar b. Mattock c. Pruning shear
4. Farm tools are very important in agricultural crop production away from your body.
because they __________ ______5. Clean accumulated rust and dirt off all metal surfaces
a. Make work easier b. make work dull with paint.
c. Make work useless ______6. Move the file diagonally, so that its cutting teeth are
5. A tool with one end of its blade flattened and the other pointed
biting into the metal on the tool.
at right angles to its handle is a ________________.
a. Mattock b. Crowbar c. Bolo ______7. Use medium-grit sandpaper to remove rust on larger
6. Use to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of tools such as shovels, spades, and hoes.
land. ______8. When sharpening with a file, use oil.
a. Hand Tractor b. Thresher c. Harrow ______9. Oil helps tool to work as intended and will also
7. Used to pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing much
prevent the formation of rust.
bigger area of land.
a. Shovel b. Water pump c. Four Wheel Tractor ______10.For pruners, use a whetstone because it produces a
8. Used to draw irrigation water from a source. very sharp cutting edge.
a. Water Pump b. Sprinkle c. Tractor
9. This machine is the equipment that put the corn outer skin
peeling off after the corn harvest
a. Thresher b. Miller c. Corn Dehusker
10. Harvest rice at eight times the speed of an unequipped
farmer and four times the speed of a sickle user.
a. Rice Harvester b. Miller c. Thresher

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 II. Directions: Identify the missing word to complete the sen-
tence. Choose the word on the box bellow.

I.
Directions: Match Column A with Column B. Write only the
letter of the correct answer on a separate sheet of paper. across file sharpening Stabilize brush

Column A sandpaper fixed Oil whetstone Diagonally

Column B
1. Used in harvesting rice grains _____1.The best way to use the stone is to find a way to
A. Rice Seeder
________ the tool that you want to work on.
2. Used in peeling off the outer skin of the B. Grass Cutter ______2.Tools that are worn out should be separated and be
corn ________ immediately to avoid accident.
C. Corn Dehusker
______3. When _________, try to maintain the original factory
3. Used in separating the grains from the
D. Rice Harvester bevel or angle.
plant of the rice ______4. Always push the file _________ the blade in a motion
E. Thresher away from your body.
4. Used for cutting tall grasses
______5. Clean accumulated rust and dirt off all metal surfaces
F. Sprayer
5. Used in sowing seed in the field with a wire _________
G. Pail ______6. Move the file __________, so that its cutting teeth are
6. Used for spraying insecticides, foliar
biting into the metal on the tool.
fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides H. Sprinkler
______7. Use medium-grit __________to remove rust on larger
7. Used for hauling water, manure and tools such as shovels, spades, and hoes.
I. Rake
fertilizers ______8. When sharpening with a _________, do not use oil;
8. Used for watering seedlings J. Knife metal filings will accumulate and clog the file's serra-
tions.
9. Used for cutting planting materials
______9._______ will help tools to work as intended and will
10. Used for leveling the top soil prevent the formation of rust .
______10.For pruners, use a _________ because it produces a
very sharp cutting edge.

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 Before we start with the lesson lets have a game. Inside
the house we do have different tools and equipment that your Farm tools, implements, and equipment play very
father, older brother or even your mother use in daily basis. important role in agricultural crop production. Their availability
makes the work much easier and faster.
Directions: List at least 10 tools and equipment that your
father use or operated in any kind and give a short definition of it In order to do crop production operations successfully,
or how to use it. Write your answer below. one must have a good working knowledge of the tools,
implements and equipment before using them.
1.
2. Farm Equipment is machinery used in farming or
3. other agriculture. There are many types of such equipment,
4. from hand tools and power tools to tractors and the countless
5. kinds of farm implements that they tow or operate. Diverse
6. arrays of equipment are used in both organic and nonorganic
7. farming. Especially since the advent of mechanized agriculture,
8. agricultural machinery is an indispensable part of how the world
9. is fed.
10.
As much as tools and equipment at vital to accomplishing
tasks on the farm, it is important to always keep them ready for
work.

Farm tools, implements, and equipment play very

important role in agricultural crop production. Their availability
makes the work much easier and faster.

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ACTIVITY 2
FARM TOOLS IN AGRICULTURAL CROP
SCRAPBOOK ON FARM EQUIPMENT PRODUCTION
Direction: After learning what are the different farm tools, you Farm tools, implements, and equipment play very
will be compiling pictures of farm tools. important role in agricultural crop production. Their availability
1. Collect pictures of various farm tools. You may clip pictures makes the work much easier and faster. However, even if one
from the internet. may have the most sophisticated tools and implements, but does
2. For the pictures taken from online sites, copy the URL and not know how to use them, they are useless. In order to do crop
paste below the pictures. production operations successfully, one must have a good
3. Cut the pictures and paste it on a short bond paper working knowledge of the tools, implements and equipment
4. Search the uses or functions of this tool and write it below before using them.
or beside the pictures.
5. Compile the sheets into 1 folder.
1. Bolo is used for cutting tall grasses
ACTIVITY 3 and weeds and chopping branches of
trees.
Directions: Using your smart phone, take pictures of the farm
tools that are available at home. Assess the tool
using the table below.

Condition
2. Masking Tape - Crowbar is used for
digging big holes and for
Tools Good Fair Bad Picture
digging out big stones and stumps.
Bolo /

3. Pick-mattock is used for digging

canals, breaking hard topsoil and for
digging up stones and tree stumps.

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4. Grab-hoe is used for breaking hard
topsoil and pulverizing soil.

ACTIVITY 1
PROPER USE OF SHOVEL

5. Spade is used for removing trash or Directions: Make a scrapbook on how to use properly a
soil, digging canals or ditches and mixing shovel. You can use your smart phone and take a picture of
soil media you doing the proper usage of the tool.

PPE and Tools needed:

Footwear, Long pants, Gloves, Rag, Shovel
6 Shovel is used in removing trash,
Procedure:
digging loose soil, moving soil from one
place to another and for mixing soil Make sure that before you perform this activity, you are wear-
media. ing appropriate personal protective equipment. Follow these
instructions
1. Keep feet wide apart. Place front foot close to shovel.
2. Put weight on front foot. Use leg to push shovel.
7. Rake is used for cleaning the ground
and leveling the topsoil.

8. Spading fork is used for loosening the

soil, digging out root crops and turning
over the materials in a compost heap.

3. Shift
.

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 9. Light hoe is used for loosening
Once your tools are cleaned, they're ready to be and leveling soil and digging out
sharpened. When sharpening, try to maintain the original furrows for planting
factory bevel or angle. For pruners, use a whetstone because
it produces a very sharp cutting edge. Depending on the type
of whetstone, apply a few drops of oil or water to the stone.
With the beveled side of the blade against the stone, rub the
sharp edge of the blade toward the stone in a curved motion,
as if you were trying to shave off a thin slice from the stone.
10. Hand trowel is used for loosening
When working with a file, stabilize the blades in a vise the soil around the growing plants and
or against a solid surface such as a work bench to avoid injury putting small amount of manure
and ensure an even stroke. Always push the file across the fertilizer in the soil.
blade in a motion away from your body. Move the file
diagonally, so that its cutting teeth are biting into the metal on
11. Hand cultivator is used for
the tool. When sharpening with a file, do not use oil; metal
cultivating the garden plot by
filings will accumulate and clog the file's serrations.
loosening the soil and removing
weeds around the plant.
Farm implements like ordinary plow and wooden
harrow should be checked thoroughly before use. Loosened
bolts and nuts should be tightened firmly. Disc plow and
harrow should also be lubricated on their moving parts like
12. Hand fork is used for inter row
bearings. Tractors should be tuned-up very well by skilled
cultivation.
operator. Check on their oil, lubricant, fuel and cooling system.

Tools that are worn out should be separated and be

fixed immediately to avoid accident

13. Pruning shears is for cutting

branches of planting materials and
unnecessary branches of plants.

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14. Axe is for cutting bigger size post.

The best way to use the stone is to find a way to

stabilize the tool that you want to work on. A bench vise is
ideal. You will be able to clamp the tool into place at an angle,
so you can work on it. Clamping the garden tool into place with
a vise frees up both of your ands to use the whetstone and
15. Knife is for cutting planting gives you more control over what you are doing.
materials and for performing other
operations in horticulture Apply a little bit of lubricating
oil to the end of the tool and
carefully begin to work the stone
over the blade. Maintain a 30
degree angle between the stone
16. Sprinklers – for watering seedlings and the blade to form the ideal
cutting edge for your tool. Not only
and young
will the edge become sharper, but
plants you will also be removing any pitting
and rust that has formed at the
edge of your tool‘s blade.

In instances where the

moving parts of your garden tools
17. Water pails – for hauling water, (such as with of any new pruners,
manure and fertilizers shears, and loppers) have frozen in
place, like springs and pivot joints,
you should disassemble them first
carefully break free any rust or dirt
that may keep the tool from
functioning properly. Clean
18. Sprayers are for spraying accumulated rust and dirt off all
insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides metal surfaces with a wire brush. Remove stubborn rust from
and herbicides small tools with fine steel wool. Using an old toothbrush with
some lightweight lubricating oil is a great way to work fresh oil
into the joints of most garden tools. Not only will this fresh oil
helps your tool to work as it was intended, but it will also
prevent the formation of rust. Use medium-grit sandpaper to
remove rust on larger tools such as shovels, spades, and
hoes.

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 19. Wheel barrow is used for hauling
trash, manures, fertilizers, planting
4. Hang your garden tools. materials and other equipment
Keep your tools hanged . Leaving them on the floor can
cause rusts as they may come in contact with moisture.
Leaving tools on the floor may cause injury to persons or
persons stepping on them may break or deform them,
causing them to be unsuitable for work. 20. Sickle is a hand-held agricultural
5. Store tools in their original cases. tool with a variously curved blade
Some tools and equipment come in their special cases to typically used for cutting weeds.
keep them protected for damage. Make sure to clean and
keep them in their original cases.
6. Use silica gel packs.
Silica gel helps to keep tools dry in their cases. Use silica
gel to prevent rust of tools and equipment with metal parts. Farm Implements
7. Dry Tools After Use
After using tools or equipment, clean and make sure they These are accessories which are being pulled by
are dried before packing or hanging them. This will prevent working animals or mounted to machineries (hand tractor,
them from rusting. tractor) which are usually used in the preparation of land. These
are usually made of a special kind of metal.
How to Clean Your Tools
1. Plows. These are farm implements either pulled by a
Let‘s start with the basics. Your shovel, spade, hoe, or working animal or a tractor. The plow is specifically used for
even the blades on a hedge trimmer will be a lot easier to use
if you take a few minutes to tilling large areas, making furrows and inter row cultivation.
knock some of the rust off the Plows pulled by working animals are made of either a
blade. Not only will this extend combination of metal and wood or pure metal. They are
the life of the tool, but also it will used to till areas with a shallower depth than that of the disc
cut through the soil better, and plows which are pulled by tractors.
thus require less effort to use, if
it has a nice sharp blade. It is a 2.
good idea to keep a large
whetstone in your shop. A
whetstone is an ideal tool to use
to keep all of the cutting edges
of your garden tools honed. It
will work well on your shovel, as
well as many other common
garden tools.

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 PRE-OPERATIVE CHECK UP OF FARM TOOLS AND
EQUIPMENT

Imagine that the long, hot summer vacation has finally

come to an end and it‘s the beginning of the school year and you
are ready to start working your vegetable gardens. But before
that let us check first our tools, implements and equipment you
are going to use.
Native Plow Disc Plow Garbed with your working clothes and personal protective
2. Harrow. The native wooden harrow is made of wood with a equipment (PPE). Proceed to the shop to retrieve your tools so
metal teeth and pulled by a carabao while the disc harrow is that you can start clearing away the last remnants of summer
and begin breaking the soil for a new year. Imagine your
aide of metal mounted to a tractor. Harrows are used for frustration as you start pulling out all of your tools to see that
tilling and pulverizing the soil. they are covered with rust and dirt that has hardened and crusty
globs of oil that have collected dust last vacation. It seems that
you are going to spend more time cleaning and repairing tools
on this nice day than you will actually use them.

Why do you have to maintain farm tools and equipment?

1. They last longer when maintained.
2. Tools and equipment that are maintained work more efficiently.
3. When you keep tools and equipment in good shape, you
reduce the risk of injury to the operator.
Native Wooden Harrow Disc Harrow 4. Regular maintenance reduces the cost of maintenance.
3. Rotavator. The rotavator is an implement mounted to a How to Effectively Maintain Farm Tools and Equipment
tractor used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.
1. Sharpen tool before and after use.
When you sharpen tools it reduces the amount of force you
need to apply to accomplish the task. Blunt tools may break
when being used.
2. Oil or grease metal parts.
This will prevent rusts of metal parts of tools and equipment.
Oiling the movable parts makes the tools easy to work with. It
also increases the efficiency of the tool or equipment.
3. Wooden handles should be strong.
Make sure tools with wooden handles are strong and durable.

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 COMMON FARM EQUIPMENT
6 Rice harvester produces rice at
eight times the speed of an
unequipped farmer and four times 1. Hand tractor is used to pull a
the speed of a sickle user if you can
plow and harrow in preparing a large
afford the fuel. Without fuel, four
people will be needed to do the area of land.
same job.
2. Four wheel tractor is used to pull
disc plow and disc harrow in
preparing much bigger area of land.

7. Grass Cutter is used for trimming

tall grasses. 3. Water pumps are used to draw
irrigation water from a source.

4. Thresher is a piece of
farm equipment that threshes grain,
8. Rice Seeder is for sowing that is, it removes the seeds from
germinated paddy seed directly in the stalks and husks. It does so by
wetland field. There is no need for
beating the plant to make the seeds
transplantation.
fall out.

5. Corn Dehusker machine is the

equipment that put the corn outer
9. Miller is a machine use to pill off skin peeling off after
the outer coating of the rice.
the corn harvest . It replaces the
manual stripping tension and heavy
labor , reducing the labor intensity ,
improve production efficiency

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