HandTools and Equipent Lesson 1

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Selecting and Using

Farm Tools and


Equipment
Arrange Me!
Direction: Look at the following
jumble letters, rearrange them
to name the picture.
SKRILEPNR
SPRINKLER
BLOO
BOLO
RKAE
RAKE
TCRAOTR
TRACTOR
SOHEVL
SHOVEL
Farm Tools,
Farm Implements
and Farm
Equipment
I. Farm Tools
A. Hand Tools- hand tools are usually
light and are used without the help of
animals or machines. They are being
used in performing farm activities which
involve small areas like school garden
and home garden.
A. DIGGING TOOLS
1. Pick Mattock
• Used for digging
canals

• Used for removing


stumps and stones
2. Crowbar
• Used for digging
up big stones
and tree stumps

• Used for digging


big holes
3. Spade
• Used for digging
canals and
ditches

• Used for
removing trash
and mixing soil
media
4. Shovel
• Used for digging
loose soil,
removing trash,
moving soil from
one place to
another, and for
mixing soil media.
5. Grab Hoe
• Used for
breaking hard
tap soil and
for
pulverizing
soil
6. Spading Fork
• Used for
loosening the
soil, digging out
root crops, and
turning over the
materials in a
compost heap.
7. Light Hoe
• Used for
loosening and
levelling and
digging out
furrows for
planting
8. Dull Bolo • Used mainly for
digging roots and
weeding gardens,
approximating the
functions of a garden
hoe

• Smallest type of bolo


B. Cutting/
Harvesting Tools
1. Knife
• Used for cutting
planting materials
and for
performing other
operations in
horticulture.
2. Sickle
• Used for
harvesting of
crops ,grass
and cutting of
other
vegetable
matters.
3.Pruning Shears
• Used for pruning
unnecessary
branches and
cutting planting
materials
4. Sharp Bolo
• Used for cutting
tall grasses and
weeds and
chopping
branches of trees
5. Axe

• Used for cutting


bigger posts
6. Scythe
• Used for mowing
grass or reaping
crops
C. Measuring Tools
1. Meter Stick

• Used for measuring


the height of plants

• Used to measure
planting distance
2. Ruler
• Used for measuring
the height of plants

• Used to measure
planting distance
3. pH Meter
• Used to measure
the hydrogen-ion
concentration (or
pH) indicating its
acidity or
alkalinity of the
soil.
4. Weighing Scale

• Used for
weighing
vegetable
produce
D. Cultivating Tools
1. Hand Trowel
• Used for balling
seedlings.

• Used for
cultivating soil
around the plants
2. Hand cultivator
• Used for cultivating
garden plot
loosening the soil
and removing oung
weeds around the
plants
3. Hand Fork

• Used to inter-
row cultivation
E. Other Horticulture
Tools
1. Rake
• Used for
cleaning the
ground and
levelling the
top soil
2. Sprinkler

• Used for
watering
seedlings and
young plants
3. Water Pail

• Used for hauling


water ,manure
and fertilizers
4. Wheel Barrow
• Used for hauling
trash, manures,
fertilizers,
planting
materials and
other equipment.
5. Knapsack Sprayer

• Used for spraying


pesticides and
liquid fertilizes in
wide areas
6. Hand Sprayer

• Used for
spraying on
small areas.
7. Water hose

• Used for
watering plants,
etc.
THANK YOU!

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