Farm Equipments

TRACTOR
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a
high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling
a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction.
Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the
power and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially (and
originally) tillage, and now many more. Agricultural implements may be
towed behind or mounted on the tractor, and the tractor may also provide a
source of power if the implement is mechanised.

TRESHER
Thresher, farm machine for separating wheat, peas, soybeans, and other small
grain and seed crops from their chaff and straw. Primitive threshing methods
involved beating by hand with a flail or trampling by animal hooves. An early
threshing machine, patented in 1837 by Hiram A. and John A. Pitts of
Winthrop, Maine, U.S., was operated by horsepower. Large stationary
threshers powered by steam engines or tractors, common in the early part of
the 20th century, were part of harvesting systems in which the grain was cut
either by binders or by headers. In most farm regions, threshers, binders, and

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Farm Tools and Implements
NATIVE PLOW
These are farm implements used in horticultural operations either pulled by a
working animal or a tractor. … The native wooden harrow is made of wood
with a metal teeth and pulled by a carabao while the disc harrow is made of
metal mounted to a tractor. Harrows are used for tilling and pulverizing the
soil.

ROTARY WEEDER
The Rotary Weeder is a tool used to remove weeds either manually or
mechanically. It is helpful to farmers who uses minimal to zero amount of
herbicides.  Manual weeding takes about 25 days solo work to finish one
hectare. Pasali's latest mechanical weeder is light, one horsepower (HP), does
three rows at a time and easy to operate, making it possible even for women to
work with. Two weeders can to do a hectare of rice in just five.

SPADING FORK
A garden fork, spading fork, digging fork or graip is a gardening implement,
with a handle and several (usually four) short, sturdy tines. It is used for
loosening, lifting and turning over soil in gardening and farming.

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 AXE
Axe is used in cutting bigger size posts, typically used for chopping wood,
usually a steel blade attached at a right angle to a wooden handle:

WHEELBARROW
A wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled vehicle, usually with just one wheel,
designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles at the
rear, or by a sail to push the ancient wheelbarrow by wind. The term
"wheelbarrow" is made of two words: "wheel" and "barrow." "Barrow" is a
derivation of the Old English "barew" which was a device used for carrying
loads.

SHOVEL

Used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to
another and for mixing soil media. Shovel is also used to load materials from
ground-level into wheelbarrow typical shovel known as simple Farm tool is
used for making garden paths shovel is used for leveling the ground and
removing Stones or rubbish from the pathway.

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