AENGG 410.

Agricultural Mechanization and Machinery Management

Chapter Test 1. Primary Tillage Equipment
1. Define primary tillage and list the types of equipment used.
2. Draw sketches of the various kinds of furrows and name their parts.
3. Name the types of moldboard plow bottoms and explain their differences and uses.
4. Discuss the functions, advantages and disadvantages of (a) two-way plows and (b) middle breaker plows.
5. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of trailing and integral-mounted plows.
6. Discuss the various factors involved in the design of moldboard plow bottoms.
7. Determine the Acres plowed per hour when a tractor is operating at 3.5 mi/h and is pulling four 14-in moldboard bottoms
at a depth of 5.5 in. What will be the total draft in pounds pull, if there is a draft of 8 lb/in2? How many acres can be
plowed in 10 hours when the field efficiency is 78%?
8. Discuss the conditions under which it may be advantageous to use a disk plow.
9. Explain the differences in design of the one-way and the regular disk plows.
10. Discuss the use of rotary and chisel plows.
11. Explain the vertical and horizontal principles involved in hitching a trailing moldboard plow equipped with four 14-in
bottoms to a tractor on which the inside walls of the tires are 67 in apart.
12. Discuss the principles of the three-point hitch for integral-mounted plows.
13. Explain why center of resistance is not always a fixed point on a moldboard plow bottom.
14. Define vertical and horizontal lines or draft.
15. Define side draft.
Chapter 2. Secondary Tillage Equipment
1. Define and give the objectives of secondary tillage.
2. List the equipment used for secondary tillage.
3. Give the various uses of disk harrows, and make an outline listing the various types of disk harrows.
4. Explain the different structural and design features of trailing single-action, double-action and offset disk harrows.
5. Compare the advantages of the wheel-lift trailing disk harrow and the tractor-mounted power-lifted disk harrow.
6. Explain how the various forces acting on a disk harrow gang can be balanced to obtain even penetration.
7. Explain how the various uses of spike-tooth and spring-tooth harrows.
8. Explain the various types of land rollers and pulverizers.
9. Discuss the advantages of subsurface or stubble-mulch tillage, and describe the equipment used.
Chapter Test 3. Planting Equipment
1. Enumerate the factors that influence the germination of seed.
2. Explain the following: (a) drilling, (b) hill-dropping, (c) broadcasting.
3. Explain the operation of the air-seed-metering system.
4. Discuss the differences in dropping mechanisms for corn, sorghum and cotton.
5. Give the advantages and disadvantages of the different types of seed-furrow openers and explain the functions of press
wheels.
6. What is meant by segmented beet seed?
7. Explain the differences in potato-dropping mechanisms.
8. Explain how the size of grain drill is determined.
9. Name and explain the different grain feeds used in grain drills.
10. Described how a grain drill is calibrated.
11. Explain minimum tillage.
12. Explain the terms plow-plant and wheel-track planting.
13. Explain no-tillage.
Chapter 4. Cultivation and Weed Control Equipment
1. Discuss the importance of weed control in the culture of crops.
2. List the objectives of cultivation.
3. Explain the principal design features of central-forward-mounted tractor cultivators.
4. Explain the need for and action of delayed lifts for tractor cultivators.
5. List the various types and parts of a cultivator gang, and explain why a cultivator rear section is needed.
6. Explain how cultivator sweeps are set (a) with a line diagram and (b) with a setting frame.
7. Discuss the use of the rotary hoe as a cultivator attachment, and list six other cultivator attachments and explain their use.
8. Discuss the use of frame for weed control.
9. Explain how weeds can be controlled by electricity, foam and plastic.