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standard farm equipment
« on: March 31, 2006, 06:28:41 pm »
I need to know the names of some standard equipment you would expect to find on any farm.

So far I have tractor.

Is a baler standard? Mower? I need other items...machinery, I mean. Thanks.
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Re: standard farm equipment
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2006, 06:32:18 pm »
I'm a city girl, but the word Silo comes to mind.. I think
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Re: standard farm equipment
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2006, 06:34:23 pm »
I want things with wheels. A silo is a building  :D
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Re: standard farm equipment
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2006, 06:58:44 pm »
Is a combine a vehicle?  And would it be on a farm?  Lol, the word just sounds right to me.

Update:  Just looked it up on dictionary.com and here's one of the def's:

#.1  A power-operated harvesting machine that cuts, threshes, and cleans grain.
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Re: standard farm equipment
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2006, 06:59:49 pm »
Yes, I believe it is. That's what Jack sells and drives.
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Re: standard farm equipment
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2006, 07:18:41 pm »
Lol David!

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Re: standard farm equipment
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2006, 10:51:14 pm »
As for farm equipment, dont forget plows and harrows (pulled by a tractor), and--I'm not kidding on this one--manure spreader.

My father used to say that the manure spreader was the dumbest piece of equipment on a farm because it kicks the sh*t out of itself.

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Re: standard farm equipment
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2006, 11:07:29 pm »
I need to know the names of some standard equipment you would expect to find on any farm.

So far I have tractor.

Is a baler standard? Mower? I need other items...machinery, I mean. Thanks.

A farm or a ranch?  You'd find some things on a farm you wouldn't find on a ranch and vice-versa.

But they'd probably all be painted in John Deere green.  ;)

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Re: standard farm equipment
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2006, 11:17:49 pm »
I have no clue what this stuff is.  But you can probably find out here.

    * bed shaper
    * cultivator
    * chisel plow
    * disk harrow
    * spike harrow or drag
    * plow (not used nearly as much as in past)
    * rototiller
    * spading machine
    * subsoiler
    * broadcast seeder (mostly obsolete)
    * planter
    * plastic mulch layer
    * potato planter
    * seed drill
    * transplanter
          o rice transplanter
    * fertilizer spreader
    * Terragator
    * manure spreader
    * sprayer
    * sickle
    * bean harvester
    * combine harvester
    * conveyor belt
    * corn harvester
    * cotton picker
    * forage harvester (or silage harvester)
    * potato digger
    * swather
    * bale mover
    * baler
    * conditioner
    * hay rake
    * mower
    * Backhoe
    * Front End Loader
    * grain auger
    * feed grinder
    * grain cart
    * rock picker

Obsolete Farm Machinery

    * binder
    * hay rack
    * hog oiler
    * reaper
    * (stationary) steam engine
    * steam traction engine
    * threshing machine

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Re: standard farm equipment
« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2006, 11:26:30 pm »
"Terragator"?

Sounds like a name for a Troll. ...
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