Micron Document




List of agricultural machinery
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Agricultural equipment is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming. The best-known example of this kind is the tractor.

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Tractor and power
Soil cultivation

Cultivator (of two main variations)

• Dragged teeth (also called shanks) that pierce the soil.
• Rotary motion of disks or teeth. Examples are: Power tiller / Rotary tiller / Rototiller / Bedtiller / Mulch tiller / Rotavator

Plow or plough (various specialized types)
Roller

• Stone / Rock / Debris removal implement (e.g. Destoner, Rock windrower / rock rake, Stone picker / picker)
Strip till toolbar (and a variation called Zone till subsoiler)
• Ridger

Planting

Seed drill (box drill, air drill)
Trowel

Fertilizers and pesticides dispenser

Liquid manure/slurry spreader and Liquid manure fertilizer spreader (e.g. slurry tanker or Terragator)
• Dry Manure spreader (e.g. Terragator)

Irrigation
Produce sorter

• Blemish sorter.
• Colour sorter
• Density Sorter
• Diameter sorter
• Internal/taste sorter
• Shape sorter
• Weight sorter

Harvesting / post-harvest processing

• Buckrake—for silage making
Grain cart (with built in grain auger)
• Harvestor / harvester built for harvesting specific crops. (e.g. Bean harvester, Beet harvester, Carrot harvester, Combine (grain) harvester / Stripper, Header, Corn harvester, Forage or silage harvester, Grape harvester, Over-the-row mechanical harvester for harvesting apples, Potato harvester, Potato spinner/digger which is becoming obsolete, and Sugarcane harvester. Variations of harvesters are stripper cleaners and stripper loaders.

• Multi crop Harvester
Mechanical tree shaker and other orchard equipment
Mower
Rake
Reaper-binder (now mostly replaced by the swather)
Swather (more common in the northern United States and Canada)
Wagon (and variations of gravity wagons, trailers—e.g. silage trailers, grain hopper trailers and lighter, two-wheeled carts)

Hand harvesting

Flail
Sickle (hand-held)
Scythe
Winnower (mechanized into the winnowing machine, which has been replaced by the combine harvester

Hay making

Bale lifter (also called Bale mover or Bale spike)
Baler
• Loader wagon / self-loading wagon – used in Europe, but not common in USA

Hand hay tool
Loading
Milking
Animal Feeding
Other

• Bale splitter
• Feed grinder
• Motor Bikes (used on large cattle stations and ranches)
Mixer-wagon (diet feeder)
Post driver (and hand tool)
• Quad Bikes
Shear Grab (and power link box)

Obsolete farm machinery
External links

Media related to Agricultural machines at Wikimedia Commons