Wikipedia / List of agricultural machinery
Wikipedia / List of agricultural machinery
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.
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
Harrow (e.g. Spike harrow, Drag harrow, Disk harrow)
Plow or plough (various specialized types)
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)
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
Drip irrigation/micro spray heads
Produce sorter
Blemish sorter
Colour sorter
Density sorter
Diameter sorter
Internal/taste sorter
Shape sorter
Weight sorter
Harvesting / post-harvest processing
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
Reaper-binder (now mostly replaced by the swather)
Swather (more common in the northern United States and Canada)
Wagon (and variations of gravity wagons, trailerss—e.g. silage trailers, grain hopper trailers and lighter, two-wheeled carts)
Hand harvesting
Sickle (hand-held)
Winnower (mechanized into the winnowing machine, which has been replaced by the combine harvester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)
Loader wagon / self-loading wagon – used in Europe, but not common in USA
Hand hay tool
Loading
Milking
Animal Feeding
Other
Bale splitter
Mixer-wagon (diet feeder)
Post driver (and hand tool)
Shear Grab (and power link box)
Obsolete farm machinery
Steam-powered:
Threshing machine (replaced by the combine harvester)
Traction engine (e.g. Agricultural engine, Ploughing engine, Steam tractor)
Other:
Reaper (replaced by the Stripper and Reaper-binder)
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