Soil Preparation: Tools and Implements

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Tools and Implements

A tractor is a a powerful motor-driven vehicle with large, heavy treads, used

for pulling farm machinery, other vehicles, etc.

Motocultor · Two-wheel tractor

Rototiller motorized device having spinning blades 

perpendicular to the ground and arranged like spokes, 

used for tilling soil.

A disc harrow (disc plough) Is a farm

implement that is used to cultivate the soil

where crops are to be planted. It is also used to chop up unwanted weeds

or crop remainders. 

A Harrow is for the preparation of sowing on tilled land. It is designed

to turning over the topsoil allowing good

germination of the plant.

A drill is a tool use to make holes on the ground

A Rotavator type of machine with rotating

blades that break up soil

The Subsoiler rips hard ground to remove

compaction lays and low areas to improve water

drainage.

A cultipacker is a piece of agricultural equipment that crushes dirt clods,

removes air pockets, and presses down small stones, forming a

smooth, firm seedbed. It is a soil renovator.

Chisel plow is a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.

Bottom plow farm implement consisting of a strong blade at

the end of a beam, usually hitched to a draft team or motor vehicle and used for

breaking up soil

Ox plows "A plow that's on the back of the oxen to plow

the field."

Wheelbarrow is a small, mobile container used in

transporting various materials.

A rake is a horticultural tool

consisting of a toothed bar fixed transversely to a handle, and used to collect leaves, hay, 

grass, etc.

A pick is a sharp pointed instrument to pierce or make a hole.

A shovel is a tool for digging, lifting, and

moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel,

snow, sand, or ore.

Machete is a large heavy knife with a broad blade, used as a weapon and an tool for cutting vegetation. 

A hoe is an ancient and versatile agricultural tool used to move small amounts of soil. Common goals include weed

control by agitating the surface of the soil around plants, piling soil around the base of plants

(hilling), creating narrow furrows (drills) and shallow

trenches for planting seeds and bulbs, to

chop weeds, roots and crop residues, and even to dig or move soil. 

A pitchfork is an agricultural tool with a long handle and long,

thick, widely separated pointed tines (also called

prongs) used to lift and pitch (throw) loose material, such

as hay, straw or leaves. 

A hand cultivator is a gardening tool that is used to turn the soil

where plants and vegetables are planted, or it can be used to remove weeds from soil in a

garden.

A spade is a tool designed primarily for

the purpose of digging or removing and spreading the

soil.

A trowel is one of several similar hand tools used for

digging, smoothing, or otherwise moving around small amounts of viscous or particulate material.