NAME: ABE 3202 DP: 4-17-25
COURSE & YR.: LAB. EXERCISE NO. 2 DS:
I. FAMILIARIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINE
II. OBJECTIVES
1. To be familiar with an agricultural machine and implements;
2. To discuss the use and classification of agricultural machines and implements;
3. To discuss the general component parts and function of an agricultural machine; and
4. To make a drawing and explain briefly an agricultural machine.
III. ACTIVITIES
1. Identify the agricultural machineries provided below. Know the use of the machine
and determine where it is being used. Classify the machine whether it is used for land
preparation, transplanting, cultivation, production or post- production operation.
2. Select one agricultural machine given. Familiarize yourself with the machine you
selected. Look on the various component parts of the machine and observe how these
parts function.
3. Identify the different components of the machine and describe their function(s).
4. Make a simple sketch of the machine and identify its different components.
5. Make a brief description of the machine.
IV. RESULTS
A. Identification of Machineries and Implements
Agricultural Machines Name Description Classification
A traction machines designed
primarily
to supply power to agricultural
implements and farmstead
Agricultural equipment. It propels itself and 2-Wheel Drive
Tractor provide a force to the direction
of travel to enable attached soil 4-Wheel Drive
engaging and other agricultural
implement to perform its
intended function.
A self- propelled machine with
Walking Type Pull-Type
a single axle, designed
Agricultural
primarily to pull or propelled
Tractor Rotary-
trailed or mounted agricultural
Tilling Type
implements and machinery.
Elliptical
A special type of walking-type Shape
agricultural tractor with a tilling
Float- Assisted wheel and equipped with a Boat Type
Tiller floatation structure commonly
used in deep hard pan, muddy, Saucer Type
and waterlogged fields
Pontoon Type
By design of
Type of rotary weeder driven soil working
by its own engine for wet field part
Power Weeder
weeding.
By power
source
An implement built for Compact
the task of moving solid
Small
Front Loader and bulky agricultural
materials. It can be used Medium
to dig and grade soil. Large
A tractor implement that is Crawler
Front Dozer widely used for soil cutting, dozer
spreading and leveling. Wheel dozer
Implement used to
broadcast or strip
Horizontal
tillage and is also
Rotary Tiller Shaft
used as chemical
Vertical Shaft
incorporator and as
row crop cultivator.
Rolling implement One-way disc
that cuts, lifts, inverts plow
and throws to one
Disc Plow
side a layer of soil Reversible disc
(furrow slice) to bury plow
surface materials.
A heavy-duty tractor
implement designed
By size/ width
for slashing wild farm
Rotary Slasher By cutting
grass, weeds,
mechanism
anchored straw and
thick lawn bushes.
Type of self-propelled
rice transplanter
Walk-behind Rice wherein the operator Manual
Transplanter walks behind the Self-propelled
transplanter during
operation
Machine designed for
Three-wheel
transplanting rice
riding type rice
seedlings into a
transplanter
puddled and leveled
Rice Transplanter
field that allows
Four-wheel
operator to ride on the
riding type rice
machine during
transplanter
operation.
Streamlines the rice
transplanting process,
performing tasks such
Automatic Rice
as bed soiling, Automated
Seeder
watering, seeding, and
covering soil in one
pass.
Manual Rice A device used to sow
Manual
Seeder seed in rows.
Manually
It is a manually drawn
drawn seeder
planting equipment
Animal-
Drum Seeder used to directly sow
drawn seeder
seeds at predefined
Tractor-drawn
row and hill spacing.
seeder
A tractor mounted
implement with a
unique metering
Manual
Sugarcane Planter mechanism for
Mechanized
planting sugarcane
billets directly into the
field.
A reliable and precise
four-rows tractor-
mounted corn seeder Size
Corn Seeder with fertilizer Shape
applicator for Quality
streamlining corn
planting operations.
It is a specialized
drone used in farming
for various
applications. These
drones are equipped
with sensors, cameras,
and other data Fixed-wing
Drone collection tools to Multirotor
monitor crop health, Hybrid
collect data for
precision agriculture,
and perform tasks like
precision spraying of
pesticides or
fertilizers.
An
internal combustion
engine in which heat
Two-stroke engine
Diesel Engine produced by the
Four-stroke engine
compression of air in
the cylinder is used to
ignite the fuel.
It is a tool or device
used to remove weeds
from rice fields,
specifically in
situations where crops
are grown in flooded Wetland
Paddy Weeder
conditions. It's Dryland
designed to efficiently
and effectively
manage weeds
without damaging the
rice plants.
It is a powered tool
used for clearing
Gasoline-
dense vegetation,
powdered
Brush Cutter weeds, and even small
Electric
trees, areas a
Pneumatic
lawnmower or regular
trimmer can't reach.
Self-contained sprayer
carried on the
Portable Sprayer
Knapsack Sprayer operator’s back
Handheld sprayer
shoulder by means of
straps or a strap.
A device that moves
water from one place
to another using
Water Pump mechanical energy to Centrifugal
create a pressure
difference, causing the
water to flow.
It is a hydraulically
operated mechanized
solution for sugarcane
loading. The loader is Self-propelled
Sugarcane Grabber mounted on a tractor Wheeled
and is capable of models
loading sugarcane up
to 5 meters height in
the transport vehicle.
Mobile grain harvester
machine for cutting
picking, stripping, or
picking upcrop,
threshing, separating,
Ride-on
Combine Harvester cleaning and
Walk-behind
conveying grain into a
grain hopper or bag
and depositing harvest
residue onto the
ground.
Machine that performs
a combination of
harvesting and
dehusking, shelling,
Wheel type
separating, cleaning,
Corn Header Track type
and conveying kernels
(wheel)
into a holding bin and
discharging harvest
residue onto the
ground.
Machine that cuts and Rotary knife
Reaper Harvester lays stalks of planted Reciprocating
rice crop. cutter knife
Axial flow
Mechanical used to
Hold-on type
Rice Threshing detach and separate the
Throw-in type
Machine paddy from the
Standard rice
panicles.
thresher
This machine has the
function of lowering
the moisture content of
the grain. It is equipped
Batch Type
with an automatic
Bed Dryer Continuous
stirring system so that
Type
the heat energy
absorbed by the seeds
will be evenly
distributed.
A facility or machine
that processes rice and
corn, typically for the Village level
Rice and Corn Mill purpose of producing focus
finished products like 45 to 270 kg/hr
milled rice or
cornmeal.
This is usually used for
commercial milling
Rice Milling Commercial
operation. Capacity
Machine milling
ranged from 2 to 4 tons
per hour.
Unit consisting of
upright containers used
for storage and Tower silo
Grain Silo handling of grains in Banker silo
bulk and provided with Bag silo
necessary equipment
and accessories.
Technology that uses
Surface Pump
Solar Powered solar energy to power
Submersible
Irrigation System water pumps for
Pump
irrigation.
B. Sketch of the Machine with its Parts and Components
SILO- Unit consisting of upright containers used for storage and handling of grains in bulk and
provided with necessary equipment and accessories.
C. Parts and Components of the Machine
Part of the Machine Function
The top of the silo, often designed with a slope to facilitate
Inlet cover rainwater runoff and to help prevent the accumulation of material
on top.
The structure itself, typically made of metal, concrete, or fiberglass,
Silo shell
designed to withstand the weight and pressure of stored materials.
Steel reinforcement rings are placed around a storage silo's
Silo ring
cylindrical body to enhance its structural integrity, providing
additional support during filling, emptying, and wind loads.
Funnel-shaped areas at the bottom of the silo that facilitate the
Hopper unloading of materials. They allow for efficient discharge of the
stored material.
Steel reinforcement rings are placed around a storage silo's
Outlet cover
cylindrical body to enhance its structural integrity, providing
additional support during filling, emptying, and wind loads.
Depending on the silo's design, it may have supporting columns or
Support frame
rings to provide additional stability and ensure structural integrity.
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