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 "Belarus 3022" from Minsk Tractor Works
Tractor and power
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Farm mechanization in Ontario and Quebec; illustrating a tractor
Soil cultivation
Harrow in use in 1948 at Canterbury Agricultural College farm
Historic huge specialist "plough" for maintaining drainage ditches in East Germany
- Cultipacker
- 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)
- Land imprinter
- Plow or plough {various specialized types}
- Roller
- 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)
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)
- Sprayer
Irrigation
- Drip irrigation/micro spray heads
- Sprinkler system
- Center_pivot_irrigation
- Hydroponics
Produce sorter
A belt sorter for peas
- Blemish sorter.
- Color sorter
- Density Sorter
- Diameter sorter
- Internal/taste sorter
- Shape sorter
- Weight sorter
Harvesting / post-harvest processing
- Buckrake—for silage making
- Grain cart (with built in grain auger)
- Conveyor belt
- Cotton picker
- Farm truck
- Grain dryer
- 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.
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A Frost & Wood reaper- binder being used in the Rainy River District in the 1900s.
- Multi crop 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)
A swather
Coffee bean Harvester, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia
CTM Johnson Tomato Harvester
Case IH Module Express 625 picks cotton and simultaneously builds cotton modules.
Hand harvesting
Winnowing machine from 1839
- Flail
- Sickle (hand-held)
- Winnower (mechanized into the winnowing machine, which has been replaced by the combine harvester
Hay making
Round baler in action
- Bale lifter (also called Bale mover or Bale spike)
- Bale wrapper
- Baler
- Hay rake
- Hay tedder
- Loader wagon / self-loading wagon – used in Europe, but not common in USA
- Mower-conditioners
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
- Telescopic handler
- Tractor-mounted forklift
Milking
Animal Feeding
Other
TOL Tree Trimmer
A mulching machine
- Agricultural robots
- Allen Scythe
- Aquatic weed harvester
- Bale splitter
- Chillcuring
- Conveyor analyzer
- Feed grinder
- Hedge cutter
- Hedge trimmer
- Livestock trailer
- Mixer-wagon (diet feeder)
- Mulching machine
- Post driver (and hand tool)
- Shear Grab (and power link box)
- Trailer
- Yard scraper
Obsolete farm machinery
A Geiser threshing machine
Steam-powered:
- Portable engine
- Stationary steam engine
- Threshing machine (replaced by the combine harvester)
- Traction engine (e.g. Agricultural engine, Ploughing engine, Steam tractor)
Other:
- Drag harrow
- Hog oiler
- Reaper (replaced by the Stripper and Reaper-binder)
- Winnowing machine/Winnowing-fan
External links
Media related to Agricultural machines at Wikimedia Commons
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