Agricultural Mechanics

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Agricultural Mechanics
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Five Areas of Instruction

• Agricultural shop work
• Selection, sharpening, care, and use of shop
  tools and equipment
• Carpentry (verses woodworking)
• Sheet metal work
• Welding
• Plumbing
• Rope work

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Five Areas of Instruction

• Agricultural power and machinery
• Selection, adjustment, maintenance, and repair of
  tractors and trucks
• Selection, adjustment, maintenance, and repair of
  machinery used in farming

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Five Areas of Instruction

• Agricultural electrification
• Electrical equipment
• Selection
• Installation
• Operation
• Maintenance

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Five Areas of Instruction

• Agricultural buildings and conveniences
• Scale drawings
• Reading plans
• Functional requirements
• Shelters
• Storage
• Basic Construction
• Concrete
• Water systems
• Waste management

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Five Areas of Instruction

• Soil and water management
• Elementary leveling
• Land measurements
• Mapping
• Drainage
• Irrigation
• Terracing
• Contouring
• Strip cropping

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Why Include Agricultural Mechanics?

• Most of farming involves mechanical activity
• 85 of machinery is not adjusted properly
• Jobs that involve knowledge of agricultural
  mechanics
• Small family farmer cannot afford to hire
  mechanical work done

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Relationship to SAEs

• Closely related to experience program
• Including productive and improvement projects
• Supplementary jobs
• Job placement

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Crops

• Crate for potatoes
• Hotbed frame
• Rope splicing
• Ensilage rack
• Potato cutting rack
• Wheelbarrow
• Wagon box

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Cattle

• Calf stanchions
• Feed bunks
• Feed or silage cart
• Loading chute
• Rope halter
• Cattle squeeze and headgate

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Sheep

• Hay and grain rack
• Lamb creep feeder
• Loading chute
• Lambing pens
• Salt and mineral box
• Sorting panels

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Swine

• Farrowing crate
• Loading chute
• Portable fence panels
• Self feeder
• Troughs

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Others

• Electric motor stand
• Farm field gate
• Trailer
• Truck rack
• Picnic table
• Anvil stand
• Nail box

• Work bench
• Rack for drill bits
• Sawhorse
• File handle
• File rack
• Rope halter
• Flower trellis