List of agricultural machinery
Tractor "Belarus 3022" from Minsk Tractor Works
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.
Main article: Agricultural machinery
Tractor and power
- Tractor / Two-wheel tractor
- Tracked tractor / Caterpillar tractor
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
- Cultipacker
- Chisel plow
- 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)
- Subsoiler
- Rotator
- Roller
- Strip till toolbar (and a variation
- called Zone till subsoiler)
Planting
A plough in action in South Africa. Notice the soil being turned over.
- Broadcast seeder (alternatively: broadcast spreader, fertilizer spreader, or Air seeder)
- Planter
- Plastic mulch layer
- Potato planter
- Seed drill (e.g. Precision drill)
- Transplanter (e.g. Rice transplanter)
Fertilizing & Pest Control
- Liquid manure/slurry spreader and Liquid manure fertilizer spreader (e.g. slurry tanker or Terragator)
- Dry Manure spreader (e.g. Terragator)
- Sprayer
Trailed sprayer for orchards and vineyards
Irrigation
- Drip irrigation/micro spray heads
- Sprinkler system
- Center pivot irrigation
- Hydroponics
Produce sorter
- Blemish sorter
- Color sorter
- Density Sorter
- Diameter sorter
- Internal/taste sorter
- Shape sorter
- Weight sorter
Harvesting / post-harvest
Case IH Module Express 625 picks cotton and simultaneously builds cotton modules.
CTM Johnson Tomato Harvester
Coffee bean Harvester, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia
- Beet cleaner loader
- Buckrake—for silage making
- Grain cart (with built in Grain Auger)
- Conveyor belt
- Cotton picker
- Farm truck
- Grain dryer
- Harvestor (Bean, Beet, Carrot, Combine—grain—harvester / Stripper, Corn, Forage or silage, Grape, Over-the-row mechanical harvester for harvesting apples, Potato and Potato spinner/digger which is becoming obsolete, Cane harvester)
- Haulm topper
- Mechanical Tree Shaker and other Orchard Equipment
- Mower
- Rake
- Reaper-binder (now mostly replaced by the Swather)
- Rice huller
- 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 (and a later type the Cradle; both hand-held)
- Winnower (mechanized into the winnowing machine, which has been replaced by the combine harvester
Hay making
Round baler in action
See also: hay
- Bale lifter (also called Bale mover or Bale spike)
- Bale wrapper
- Baler
- Hay rake
- Hay tedder
- Mower-conditioners
- Loader wagon / self-loading wagon – used in Europe, but not common in USA
Hand hay tool
Loading
A "backhoe loader"
A restored JCB 3C MkII, showing the conventional arrangement of front loader and backhoe
A restored JCB 3C MkII, showing the conventional arrangement of front loader and backhoe
- Backhoe/backhoe loader
- Front end loader
- Skid-steer loader
- Tractor-mounted forklift
Milking
Other
TOL Tree Trimmer
- Allen Scythe
- Feed grinder
- Bale splitter
- Mixer-wagon (Diet feeder)
- Chillcuring
- Conveyor analyzer
- Hedge cutter
- Livestock trailer
- Mulching machine
- Post driver (and hand tool)
- Shear Grab (and power link box)
- Trailer
- Yard scraper
Obsolete farm machinery
Steam-powered:
- Stationary steam engine
- Portable engine
- Traction engine (e.g. Agricultural engine, Ploughing engine, Steam tractor)
- Hog oiler
- Reaper (replaced by the Stripper and Reaper-binder)
- Winnowing machine/Winnowing-fan
- Threshing machine (replaced by the combine harvester)
- Drag harrow
External links
Media related to Agricultural machines at Wikimedia Commons
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