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AG Mechanics XII - Servicing Agriculture Machinery
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- Read and interpret operator's manuals
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- Order parts using serial/part numbers
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- Clean machines
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- Keep machinery maintenance records
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- Design machinery maintenance schedule
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- Lubricate and grease machines
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- Check/change oil in gear boxes
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- Inspect/replace belts and pulleys
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- Adjust belt tension
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- Inspect/replace chains and sprockets
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- Adjust chain tension
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- Remove/replace bearings & bushings
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- Interpret electronic monitor readings
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- Identify types of planters and drills
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- Adjust furrow openers (depth, spacing
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- Calibrate finger-pickup seed metering system
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- Calibrate seed-plate metering system
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- Calibrate pressurized air seed metering system
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- Calibrate chemical attachments
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- Calibrate fertilizer attachments
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- Calibrate fluted wheel seeding system
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- Calibrate grass seeder attachments
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- Identify types of sprayer pumps
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- Identify types of nozzles on chemical sprayer
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- Calibrate a liquid sprayer
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- Calibrate a granular applicator
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- Clean chemical applicator
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- Replace cutter bar on mower/conditioner
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- Replace cutter bar sections
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- Replace guards on mower conditioner/windrower
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- Identify baler operations (square, round, stack)
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- Identify tillage equipment for applicable method
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- Identify types of shovels and uses
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- Replace shovels, disks, lays
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- Make proper tillage adjustments (depth, angle)
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- Adjust combine gathering units (reel, feeder chain, snapping rolls & plates
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- Adjust combine threshing & separating units (concave, cylinder, fan, sieves)
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