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Destoner

- is a machine that removes stones and clods from soil ridges andmoves them to the furrow so that the ridges are free from

stones. This also helps when harvesting in wet conditions as the

harvester can drive on a row of stones which helps improve

 traction.They remove stone using a series of webs (between two

and five webs). The stones stay on the web and the clay falls

 through it. The stones travel through the machine and the bigger

stones fall into a boulder box and the smaller stones fall onto a

cross conveyor and in turn fall into a trench. On the next pass the tractor tramps these stones down.

Roller- is an agricultural  tool used for

flattening land or breaking up large

clumps of  soil, especially

after ploughing. Flatter land makes

subsequent weed

control and harvesting easier, and

rolling can help to reduce moisture lossfrom cultivated soil. On  grassland, 

rolling levels the land for mowing  and

compacts the soil surface.

Broadcast Seeders or spreaders- is a farm implement commonly used

for spreading seed, lime, fertilizer,

sand, ice melt, etc., and is an

alternative to drop spreaders/seeders.

Spade- is a tool designed primarily for the purpose of digging or

removing earth and spreading the soil. Early spades were made of 

riven wood. After the art of metalworking was discovered, spades

were made with sharper tips of metal. Before the introduction of 

metal spades manual labor was less efficient at moving earth, withpicks being required to break up the soil in addition to a spade

for moving the dirt. With a metal tip, a spade can both break and

move the earth in most situations, increasing efficiency.

Garden fork- is a gardening implement, with a handle and several (usually four)

short, sturdy  tines. It is used for loosening, lifting and turning over soil in gardening and farming. It is used similarly to a spade, 

but in many circumstances it is more appropriate than a spade:

 the tines allow the implement to be pushed more easily into the

 ground, it can rake out stones and weeds and break up clods, it is

not so easily stopped by stones, and it does not cut through

weed roots or root-crops. Garden forks were originally made of 

wood, but the majority are now made of  carbon steel orstainless

steel. 

Pickaxe or pick- is a hand tool with a hard head

attached perpendicular to the handle.

 The head is usually made of metal, and

 the handle is most commonly wood, 

metal or fiberglass. 

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Rake- is a broom for outside use;

a horticultural implement consisting of 

a toothed bar fixed transversely to a

handle, and used to

collect leaves, hay, grass, etc., and,

in gardening , for loosening the soil,

light weeding and levelling, removing dead grass from lawns, and generally for

purposes performed in agriculture by

 the harrow. 

Tractoris an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a

high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the

purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery usedin agriculture or construction. Most commonly, the term

is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power

and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially

(and originally) tillage, but nowadays a great variety of 

 tasks. Agricultural implements may be towed behind or

mounted on the tractor, and the tractor may also provide

a source of power if the implement is mechanised.

Cultivator- is any of several types of farm

implement used for secondary tillage. 

Cultivators stir and pulverize the soil,

either before planting (to aerate the

soil and prepare a smooth,

loose seedbed) or after the crop has

begun growing (to kill weeds--controlleddisturbance of the topsoil close to the

crop plants kills the surrounding weeds

by uprooting them,etc.).

Cultipacker- is a piece of  agricultural equipment that

crushes dirt clods, removes air pockets, and

presses down small stones, forming a smooth,

firm seedbed. Where seed has been broadcast,

 the roller gently firms the soil around the

seeds, ensuring shallow seed placement and

excellent seed-to-soil contact. The cultipackerdiffers from the field roller in that it is made

up of many sections that form peaks and

 valleys in the soil where packer has been used.

Subsoiler or mole plough- is a tractor mounted implement used

 to loosen and break up soil at depths

below the level of a traditional diskharrow or rototiller. The subsoiler is a

 tillage tool which will improve growth in

all crops where soil compaction is a

problem. The design provides deep

 tillage, loosening soil deeper than a

 tiller or plough is capable of reaching. 

Stone picker or rock picker-is an implement  to remove the top layer

of  soil to separate and collect rocks and

soil debris from good topsoil. It isusually tractor-pulled. Stone pickers are

used in farming and landscaping, where

stones need to be removed from the soil

and ground surface to prevent damage to

other farm machinery improve the soil for

crop production, or improve the

appearance of the ground surface in

preparation for a lawn or a golf course.

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Plow or Plough-the most important agricultural

implement since the beginning of 

history, used to turn and break up soil, 

 to bury crop residues, and to help

control weeds. A plow is used to turn

over stubble or a pasture to expose thesoil underneath. This allows for further

 tilling like discing, harrowing and

cultivating, to prepare the soil for

seeding crops.

Harrow- is an implement for breaking up and

smoothing out the surface of the soil. In thisway it is distinct in its effect from the plough, 

which is used for deeper tillage. Harrowing is

often carried out on fields to follow the

rough finish left by ploughing operations. The

purpose of this harrowing is generally to break

up clods (lumps of soil) and to provide a finer

finish, a good tilth or soil structure that is

suitable for seedbed use. 

Mattock-it is a versatile hand tool, used for

digging and chopping, similar to

 the pickaxe. It has a long handle, and a

stout head, which combines an axe blade

and an adze (cutter mattock) or a pick

and an adze (pick mattock). A mattock is

used for chopping, digging and uprooting shrubs and small trees. The sharp end is

usually used for cutting the roots, while

 the end with flat blade is used to dig into

 the soil when planting. 

Shovel-it is a tool for digging, lifting, and moving bulk

materials, suchas soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, 

or ore. Shovels are common tools that are

used extensively in agriculture, construction,

and gardening .Most shovels are hand

 tools consisting of a broad blade fixed to amedium-length handle. Shovel blades are

usually made of sheet steel or hard plastics

and are very strong. Shovel handles are usually

made of wood (especially specific varieties

such as ash or maple) or glass-reinforced

plastic (fibreglass).

Trowel-it is one of several similar hand

 tools used for digging, smoothing,or otherwise moving around small

amounts of viscous or particulate

material.In gardening,trowel is used

both to fill a plant pot with earth

from a weeded patch, and to plant

a tree seed into that plant pot to

begin the process of growing a tree.

Scythe

-it is an agricultural implement

 traditionally used to cut grass,

 grains, reeds, and sedges. The

scythe has largely been replaced by

 tractors and other mechanized

farming devices which canaccomplish cutting and harvesting 

 tasks much more quickly and with

much less physical labor.

Hoe-is an ancient and versatile agricultural tool used to move

small amounts of soil. Common goals include weed

control by agitating the surface of the soil around plants,

piling soil around the base of plants (hilling), creating 

narrow furrows (drills) and shallow trenches for

planting seeds and bulbs, to chop

weeds, roots and crop residues, and even to dig or move

soil, such as when harvesting root crops like potatoes. 

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