FARM TOOLS AND EQUIPMENTS.

By Oliver Wangila On May 26, 2022

Introduction

Garden Tools and Equipment

Tools	Uses
Bank	Cutting and shallow cultivation, making holes.
Jembe / hand hoe	Cultivation, digging, shallow planting holes and trenches.
Fork iembe	Cultivation, digging out roots, harvesting of root crops.
Rake	Collecting trash, breaking large clods, levelling, removing stfrom a seedbeones d and spreading organic manure.
Spade	Scooping and carrying of soil, sand, concrete mixture and manure.
Spring balance	Measuring weight.
Trowel	Scooping seedlings during transplanting and .digging planting holes for seedlings.
Pruning hook	Bending tall branches when pruning.
Secateur	Cutting young stems and pruning branches.
10. Tape measure	Measuring distances.
11. Axe	Cutting big trees and roots and splitting logs of wood.
12. Soil auger	Making holes for fencing posts.
13. mattock	Digging hard soils
14. sprinklers	Overhead irrigation.
15. Watering can	Watering plants in nursery bed.
16. Wheel barrow	Transportation of soil, fertilizers, farm produce, tools and
17. Levelling board	eqFor levelling a nursery bed. uipment.
18. Pruning saw	Cutting old wood stems and pruning big branches.
19. Hose pipe	For conveying water from a tap to where it is need.
20. Knap sack sprayer	Applying agro-chemical by spraying.
21. Garden shear	Trimming hedges.
22. Pruning knife	Removal of small shoots.
23. Meter ruler	Measuring distances.
24. Garden fork	Shallow digging.

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FARM TOOLS AND EQUIPMENTS.

Livestock production tools and equipments.

Tools	Uses
Drenching gun	Administering liquid drugs to animals orally.
Bolus gun/dosing	Administering solid drugs or tablets to animals orally.
^gunWool Shears	Cutting off wool from sheep.
Hypodermic syringe	Administering drugs by injection for example in vaccination.
Stirrup (bucket)	Application of acaricide by hand spraying.
pump Thermometer	Taking body temperatures of farm animals.
Burdizzo	Used in bloodless method of castration.
Halter	Rope designed to restrain the animal.
Trimming knife	Cutting short the overgrown hooves.
Elastrator	Stretching rubber ring during castration, dehorning and docking of lambs.
Iron dehorner	Applies heat on the horn bud to prevent growth of horns.
Nose ring	Fixed into the nose of a bull to restrain it.
Strip cup	Detecting mastitis in milk products.
Trocar and cannula	Relieving a bloated animal of gases particularly ruminants.
Hard broom	For scrubbing the floor.
Ear notcher	Making ear notches in livestock.
Bucket	For holding milk during milking.
Milk chum	For holding milk after milking.
Milk strainer/sieve	Removing foreign particles from milk for example hairs and sediments.
Rope	Tying or tethering animals.
Milking stool	Used by the milker to sit on while milking.
Weighing balance	Weighing milk after milking.
Teeth clipper	Removal of canine teeth of piglets soon after birth.
Chaff cutter	Cutting fodder into small bits.
Dehorning wire	Cutting grown horns.

, Workshop Tools and Equipment

Tools	Uses
Spanner	Tightening and loosening nuts and bolts.
Pliers	Cutting small wires and thin metal and gripping
Files	firSharpening toolsmly. , smoothening or shaping edges of
Rasps	metalsSmoothen, ing and shaping of wooden
Chisels (wood)	strMaking grooves in uctures.
Cold chisel	woodCutting and shap. ing
Screw drivers	^metalDriving screws in or out of wood or metal^..
Saws Cross cut saw	Cutting across the grain of wood.
Rip saw	Cutting along the grain of wood.
Hack saw Bow saw	Cutting metals.
Tenon back saw	Cutting branches of
Coping saw	trees. Cutting Joints on wood and fine sawing.
Compass/keyhole saw	Cutting curves on thin wood. Cutting either along or across the grain of wood espWhenecially cutting k ey
Tin snip	holes. Cutting metal sheet s.
Braces and bits.	Boring holes in wood. ,
Drill and bits	Boring holes in metal work and woodwork.	=
Hammer
Claw hammer	Driving in, removing and straightening nails.
Ball pein	Driving in nails, rivets and straightening metal. Also uson cold chisel ed
Mallet	Hammering or hitting wood chisel.
Jack plane	Fine finishing of wood.
Scrappers/spokesha	Smoothening curved surfaces of wood such as
ve	handles of jembes, axes .
Measuring	~
eMetre ruler quipment	Measuring short length
Try square	-. Measuring length angles and to ascertain squareness.
Marking gauge	Marking parallel lines to the edge of wood.
Fencing pliers	Cutting wires, hammering staples when
Vice and clamps	^fencing.Firmly holding pieces of w ork together.

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Tools		Uses
Spirit level	Measuring horizontal or vertical levels.
Soldering gun	Melting soldering rods when repairing or fabricating metsheetsal .
Wire brush	Brushing rough surfaces.
Divider	Marking and laying out.
Centre punch	Marking the point of drilling.
Paint brush	Applying paint on surfaces.
Sledge hammer	Ramming hardware, breaking stones.
Wire strainer	Tightening wires during fencing.
Riveting machine	Fix rivets when joining pieces of metal.
Claw bar	Removing long nails from wood, straining fencing wires and digging fencing holes.

Plumbing and Masonry Tools

Tools	Uses
Pipe wrench	Holding, tightening and loosing metallic pipes.
Pipe cutter	Cutting PVC pipes.
Levelling rod	Levelling the floor during construction.
Mason’s trowel	Placing mortar between construction stones and
Wood float	bricks. Create a level surface on walls and floors.
Mason’s square	Ascertain verticalness.
Plumb bob	Spreading screed over floors and walls.
Shovel	Mixing and scooping concrete or mortar, measuring