Course: SLF 155 Small Farm Maintenance and Operations

Reading & Audio Visual

General Hand Tools & Air Compressor & Ladder
General Hand Tools & Air Compressor & Ladder

Basic tools such as hammers, tape measure, screw drivers, wrenches, level, ruler, and staple gun can help you perform a variety of farm repairs or maintenance tasks such as:

- Building and fixing wood or metal out buildings
- Fixing farm implements
- Maintaining pastures
- Building and fixing fences
- Plumbing and irrigation equipment
- Maintaining farm machinery/equipment

An air compressor has a variety of uses:

- Cleaning large equipment and implements as part of preventative maintenance
- Inflating tires
- Sharpening blades

A ladder has a variety of tasks:

- Rescuing livestock that have fallen through pond  ice (use the ladder to crawl out onto ice and get chain around livestock’s neck)
- Cleaning building gutters, reaching building's roof to perform maintenance tasks
- Reaching fruit in tall fruit trees for pruning and shearing