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TLE-AFA-
AGRI CROP PRODUCTION
Quarter 4 – Module 6:
Safekeeping of Equipment Every After Use

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Quarter 4 –Module 6:Safekeeping of Equipment Every After Use
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 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to
help you master the nature of Agri-Crop Production. The scope of this module
permits it to be used in many different learning situations. The language used
recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students. The lessons are arranged
to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the order in which you
read them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you are now using.
It deals with the various steps in performing the safekeeping and
maintenance activities of equipment in farming.

What I Know

Instructions: Read, analyze and answer the given questions. Write TRUE if
the statement is correct and FALSE if it is incorrect.

1. One of the purposes of maintenance of agricultural equipment is

keeping planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and so forth on schedule.

2. The accumulation of soil and sap on pruning equipment along with

frequent use can result in the dullness of blades on pruning equipment.

3. The design of the storage area of equipment is not influenced by the

intended purpose of the structure and the local climate.

4. Covering with blanket or sheet will prevent the dust and dirt to get into
the machines’ body of some electrical and petrol gardening equipment.

5. The purpose of the laws guiding the proper storing of chemicals in

farming is to ensure that chemicals are not used safely and not
efficiently so that risks to human health, the environment, and property
damage are minimized.

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 Lesson
Safekeeping of Equipment
6 Every After Use

The good working condition of farm equipment can be achieved by a

knowledgeable farmer that knows how to take care of his/her farm tools and
equipment. Before and after using the farm equipment, a farmer should
conduct checking and inspecting activity to the equipment. It is a rule of
thumb that after using the equipment, it should be cleaned and checked its
working condition. Even if there is a limitation of durability in farm
equipment, farmers or users should still take the responsibility to prolong its
service life and maintain its good condition.

Keeping farm equipment in top working condition is very important.

Having a breakdown can be costly in two important ways - the bill for
replacing the broken part(s) and the time lost in the field. There are certain
precautions a farmer can take before, during, and after the season to keep
equipment in optimum working condition, such as conducting a pre-season
maintenance review or taking equipment to a local dealer for inspection.

What’s In

In the past module, you learned about the preventive structures during
inclement weather. It is elaborated on the three main structures in preventing
tragedies during extreme weather conditions.
The next lesson will give you knowledge about the safekeeping
strategies of farm equipment every after use.

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 What’s New

Instructions: Analyze and write your reflection about the pictures given
below. Write your answers in your activity notebook.

Picture A. Picture B.

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Answer the questions below:

1. Do you think that these equipment still in good condition? Why?

2. What do you think are the common reasons why a certain farm
equipment becomes useless?

What is It

Like many industries, agriculture relies heavily on physical assets,

including machinery, mobile equipment, and buildings. It’s important to
keep everything running properly to avoid delays in vital agricultural
processes. Seeding, harvesting, and other processes are bound to strict
timelines, and the equipment used to carry them out needs to be ready for
operation on time.
As such, maintenance and safekeeping of farm equipment play a vital
role in keeping farms going year after year.

Importance of Safekeeping of Farm Equipment

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 The role of safekeeping and maintenance in agriculture is to make sure
farm equipment operates when it’s needed. Machines used in agricultural
processes must be ready for operation on time—otherwise, there could be
significant losses to the farm as a whole.
In addition, facilities meant to process and store foodstuffs must be
kept safe, clean, and structurally sound, to make sure that the farm’s
product is safe for consumption.

Specifically, agricultural maintenance fulfills these purposes:

• Preventing breakdowns
• Preventing accidents
• Keeping planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and so forth on the schedule
• Maintaining the quality of end products by calibrating thermometers,
metal detectors, sensors, etc.

Storage of Farm Equipment

Farmers build temporary and permanent storage facilities to protect

equipment, materials, produce and end products from the environment; to
prevent pollution of natural resources; to promote efficient handling of
materials; to encourage quality production of products; to ensure personal
and employee safety, and to provide security from vandalism and theft.
Farm storages are distinct from barns in that the latter house live
animals or are used to grow plants, whereas storages are strictly utilized to
store farm supplies and products.
Storage design is influenced by the intended purpose of the structure
and the local climate. Storages can be built with a variety of construction
materials.
Farm machinery such as tractors, combines, field implements, portable
processing equipment, and power units are often stored in some kind of
structure to protect them from the elements and from vandalism.

Clean and Maintain Garden Tools and Equipment

By the end of the planting season, most of us simply put out garden
tools, such as hoes, shovels, trowels, and pruning shears, away for the
season without even looking at them. The next season of planting, when we
are in a hurry to get started with yard and garden work, we find them dull
and crusted with soil, which makes pruning and digging more difficult.

- Garden tools will last for many seasons if they are maintained
properly. Clean, sharp blades on spades, shovels, hoes, and shears
will make garden work much easier. Although tools should be cleaned
after every use, most gardeners are busy and usually just return
them to the shed or garage. The first step is to remove caked-on soil
from hoes, shovels, and spades. It may be necessary to use a forceful
spray of water, a stiff brush, and soapy water. When most of the

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 residue is gone, go over the blade with steel wool to create a clean,
smooth and shiny surface. Rub naval jelly on the metal surfaces to
remove rust spots.

- Sharpen the edges of garden tools, such as hoes, shovels, and spades,
using a sharpening stone or a flat mill bastard file. Hold the file at a
slight angle over the original beveled edge, which is the top or front
side of shovels and spades. In a sweeping motion from one side to the
other, push the file along the edge in a one-way stroke away from the
blade. After the edge has been sharpened, turn the tool over and
lightly file the back of the blade to remove the thin "burr" that formed
when the front side was filed.

- After the blades have been cleaned and sharpened, wipe or spray
them with a petroleum-based lubricant and rust-inhibitor. Wooden
handles on tools also need attention to prevent them from drying out
and cracking. Remove soils residue and wipe the handles with a soft
cloth moistened with boiled linseed oil.

- Soil and sap accumulated on pruning equipment along with frequent

use results in dull blades on pruning equipment. Remove dried sap
with turpentine and use a flexible, abrasive emery cloth to remove
residue from tight places.

- Many pruning tools are designed so they can be taken apart to

sharpen the blades. Sharpen the cutting blades on shears with a
ceramic stone held at a slight angle and pushed across the edge, away
from the blade. Turn the blade over and gently file off the burr. After
sharpening, reassemble the shears and coat the metal parts with an
aerosol lubricant to reduce friction between moving parts and prevent
rust.

Cleaning, Storing and Waste Management

Protect Tools from the Elements

1. Blades such as electric hedge trimmer blades, hoe, shovels, and other
metal surfaces can be sprayed with lubricant oil. Spray the blades
then turn them on to make sure oil works in all areas.

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 2. All electrical and petrol gardening equipment needs to be covered over
with a blanket or sheet if kept in the shed. This will prevent dust and
dirt from getting to them.

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General Cleaning Procedures:

The farmer and/or farm workers responsible for cleaning must adhere as
much as
possible to the following procedures:
• Be properly trained on the cleaning procedures
• Develop a cleaning program and schedule according to the
recommended frequency and the cleaning program should be
monitored to ensure its effectiveness.
• Cleaning must not take place while fresh vegetables are being
harvested, packed, handled and stored.
• Water that is used for cleaning must be safe.
• The cleaning of equipment, tools and containers must take place in a
designated area away from the field and the storage of agricultural
inputs and fresh vegetables.
• When using cleaning and disinfection chemicals, the farmer and/or
farm workers must become familiar with the instruction use of these
products.
• Strictly adhere to all precautionary statements and mixing
instructions.
• Protect equipment, tools, containers and fresh vegetables when
working with any chemicals.

Cleaning reusable containers:

The farmer and/or farm workers responsible for cleaning re-usable
containers must adhere as much as possible to the following procedures:
• Remove as much as possible plant debris, soil and residues of any
kind, use a brush or appropriate tool when necessary.
• Inspect containers for physical damage which might injure, spoil and
contaminate fresh vegetables, if found, repair them.
• Inspect containers for any missed plant debris, soil and residues, if
found, re-clean.

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 • If cleaning and/or disinfection chemicals are used, follow label
instructions for mixing.
• Rinse containers with clean water.
• When possible, containers should be placed under the full sun for
rapid drying.
• Store reusable containers properly to avoid contamination.

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Cleaning equipment, tools and garbage cans:

The farmer and/or farm workers responsible for cleaning the equipment (e.g.
tables, racks, plastic sheet, etc.), tools (e.g. secateurs, knives, brushes, etc.)
and garbage cans must adhere as much as possible to the following
procedures:
• Remove as much as possible plant debris, soil and residues of any
kind, use a brush or another appropriate tool when necessary.
• Inspect equipment for physical damage which might injure, spoil and
contaminate fresh vegetables, if found, repair them.
• Inspect equipment, tools and garbage cans for any missed plant
debris, soil and residues, if found, clean again.
• If cleaning and/or disinfection chemicals are used, follow label
instructions for mixing.
• As required, apply cleaning materials such as detergent and/or
disinfection chemicals, and ensure that no spots are missed.
• Rinse with safe water, if there are parts of the equipment that cannot
be rinsed with water, use a clean wet towel and follow the same
procedures for cleaning.
• Ensure that small equipment and tools do not touch the ground floor
after the cleaning procedures.
• When possible place in the full sun for rapid drying. Store equipment
and tools properly to avoid contamination

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Cleaning hygienic facilities:

The farmer and/or farm workers responsible for cleaning hygienic facilities
must adhere as much as possible to the following procedures:
• Pick up trash from the floors and put it in the trash can.
• By using the proper detergent, clean toilets, sinks and any other
fixtures.
• Using low-pressure water, rinse the entire floor surface to remove any
soil build up.
• If cleaning and/or disinfection chemicals are used, follow label
instructions for mixing.
• As required, apply cleaning materials or disinfection chemicals to the
entire floor surface area, scrub areas with a brush if needed, and
ensure that no spots are missed.
• Rinse floor and drain.
• Remove excess water and allow drying out at room temperature.
• Ensure that hygienic facilities have enough toilet paper, soap and
disposable towels.

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Technique in storing chemicals

Chemicals are used on farms for a variety of purposes. The safe
management of chemicals requires access to information and responsible
action. Manufacturers, suppliers and users of farm chemicals all have an

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important role to play. Chemical substances present different types of risks
to people‘s health, safety and the environment.

Safe Management of chemicals involves:

A. correct labeling and packaging;
B. provision of material safety data sheets (MSDS);
C. safe transport, storage, use and disposal of substances.

What’s More

Instructions: Read and understand the following questions. Reflect and

answer based on your own experience. Write your answers in your activity
notebook.

1. What do you think are the purpose of safekeeping the farm equipment
every after use?
2. Assuming that you own specific farm equipment, what would it be,
and explain how will you perform safekeeping that particular
equipment.
3. How did you conduct safekeeping of your essential equipment in your
household?

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 What I Have Learned

Write your personal insight of what you have learned from the lesson.
Answer the questions below.

1. I Have Learned That

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
__________________

2. I Have Realized That

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
__________________

3. I Will Apply
___________________________________________________________________________
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________________________________________________________________.

What I Can Do

Instructions: Read and understand the given questions. Write your answers
in your activity notebook.

1. What if you found out that the tools you are going to work with are full
of rust and dirt, what will you do? How will you keep and maintain its
good working condition?
2. Your pruning shear developed rust and become dull. Its joints stocked
up because of the accumulated rust. What will you do to make your
pruning shear workable again?
3. How will you keep the good working conditions of electrical and petrol
operated gardening equipment?

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 Assessment

Instructions: Read, analyze and answer the given questions. Write TRUE if
the statement is correct and FALSE if it is incorrect. Write your answers in
your activity notebook.

1. The purpose of the laws guiding the proper storing of chemicals in

farming is to ensure that chemicals are not used safely and not
efficiently so that risks to human health, the environment and damage
to property are minimized.
2. One of the purposes of maintenance of agricultural equipment is
keeping planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and so forth on schedule.
3. The design of the storage area of equipment is not influenced by the
intended purpose of the structure and the local climate.
4. The accumulation of soil and sap on pruning equipment along with
frequent use can result in the dullness of blades on pruning equipment.
Covering with blanket or sheet will prevent the dust and dirt to get into
the machines’ body of some electrical and petrol gardening equipment.
5. Covering with blanket or sheet will prevent the dust and dirt to get into
the machines’ body of some electrical and petrol gardening equipment.

Answer Key

False 5. True 5.
True 4. True 4.
False 3. False 3.
True 2. True 2.
True 1. False 1.
What I Know Assessment

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References
• British Columbia Environmental Farm Plan Reference Guide British Columbia Good
Agricultural Practices (GAP) Guide On-Farm Food Safety
• Linda Naeve, May, 2016, Program Specialist, Value Added Agriculture Program,
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
• Training Regulations (TESDA), Agriculture Crop Production

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