Farm Power, Machinery and Mechanization 2010

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1. A drive wheel has a measured circumference of 2.0 m. If it made 100 turns to cover a distance of
180 m, what is the wheel slippage?
a. 10%
b. 15%
c. 18%
d. 20%
2. In a thresher, hulled paddy rice is found in the grain collection tank. What could be the possible
cause?
a. Belt connecting the power source and thresher main shaft is too tight
b. Very fast speed of the threshing drum
c. High air speed develop by the blower
d. Too long straw rack
3. Which among the following is a weeding equipment?
a. Moldboard plow
b. Disc harrow
c. Grain drill
d. Rotary cultivator
4. This is an engine fuel derived from the anaerobic decomposition of organic materials such as
plant litters and animal manure.
a. Alcogas
b. Aviation gas
c. Biogas
d. LPG
5. The furrow slice is thrown and inverted by what part of the moldboard plow?
a. Share
b. Landside
c. Mouldboard
d. Standard
6. In a 4-stroke cycle engine, this event occurs when the exhaust valve is close and the inlet valve is
open.
a. Inlet
b. Compression
c. Power
d. Exhaust
7. How many tons per hectare is harvested by a grain combine that covers one are in 10 minutes
collecting 75 kg of grains?
a. 7.5
b. 75
c. 20
d. 15
8. What is the field capacity, in ha/hr, in the preceding problem?
a. 0.06
 b. 0.6
c. 0.75
d. 7.5
9. What depreciation method gives a constant reduction in the book value throughout the life span
of a machine?
a. Straight line
b. Sinking fund
c. Declining balance
d. Sum-of-the-years digit
10. The typical tilt angle, in degrees, of a vertical disk harrow is _________?
a. 18 to 20
b. 12 to 15
c. 5 to 8
d. 0
11. This farm equipment consists of tines turning around a horizontal axle. It stirs the soil and kills
grasses and weeds in preparation to planting.
a. Rotary hoe
b. Rotary tiller
c. Rotavator
d. Rotor
12. If it takes 10 seconds for a man walking along the side of a tractor to make 25 steps and his pace
factor is 0.75m, what is the operating speed of the tractor in kph?
a. 3.6
b. 6.75
c. 7.5
d. 10
13. Given the same operating speed as in the preceding item, how many seconds will it take for the
tractor to cover a distance of 60 meters?
a. 15
b. 24
c. 32
d. 60
14. This concept is the difference of 1 and the ratio of the friction power to indicated power.
a. Brake power
b. Friction power
c. Indicated power
d. Mechanical efficiency
15. The rated width of a tandem disk harrow is 4.0 meters. If it travelled a total distance of 2,750
meters to cover a hectare area, what is the percentage of the width actually used on the
average?
a. 85%
b. 88.8%
c. 90.9%
d. 93.4%

16. An exhaust valve has a 245 degrees range. If it opens at 50 degrees before bottom dead center
position of the crankshaft, at what position of the crankshaft will it close?
a. At 15 degrees before top dead center
 b. At 15 degrees after top dead center
c. At top dead center
d. At 45 degrees after top dead center
17. Determine the maximum unit draft of a 3-bottom, 30 cm moldboard plow operating at a depth
of 20 cm if the available drawbar power is 35 kW at a rated speed of 3.5 kph.
a. 360 kPa
b. 350 kPa
c. 300 kPa
d. 200 kPa
18. How do you adjust the application rate of a ground-wheel driven machinery?
a. Change the forward speed of the machine
b. Change the forward gear used
c. Change the speed ratio between the ground wheel and the seed plate
d. Change the machine
19. Identify the parts of a thresher that separates the threshed grains from the stalks.
a. Threshing drum and concave
b. Trash rack and sieves
c. Auger and conveyor
d. Cleaning fan
20. Determine the location of the center of gravity of a tractor with respect to its rear axle if the
wheelbase is 2,100 mm and the total weight of the tractor is 3,900 kg. The weight of the tractor
concentrated on the front wheels is 1,300 kg.
a. 700 mm
b. 875 mm
c. 900 mm
d. 1,050 mm
21. Compare the pressure inside the cylinder of an internal combustion engine during the inlet and
exhaust strokes.
a. Pressure is higher during the inlet stroke
b. Pressure is lower during the inlet stroke
c. Pressure is equal for the two strokes
d. Information is not enough to arrive at a categorical answer

22. For combine grain harvesting, this loss consist of grains detach from the hay discharged at the
back of the combine.
a. Shatter loss
b. Cutter bar loss
c. Cylinder loss
d. Separating loss
23. If ten loads of 16-L knapsack sprayer are needed to spray 1 hectare of tomato, what is the spray
solution to pesticide ratio if the recommended application rate of pesticide is 1 liter per
hectare?
a. 160:1
b. 1600:1
c. 150:1
d. 1500:1
24. Determine the linear speed of the piston in a 10 cm X 12 cm engine running at 1,800 rpm.
a. 43,200 cm/min
 b. 40,000 cm/min
c. 36,000 cm/min
d. 24,000 cm/min
25. A single cylinder, 4-stroke cycle engine has 30 power strokes per second. What is the engine
speed?
a. 1,200 rpm
b. 1,800 rpm
c. 2,400 rpm
d. 3,600 rpm
26. A planting machine drops 2 seeds per hill at a hill spacing of 40cm in 1-m rows. How many seeds
are planted in a square meter area?
a. 5
b. 8
c. 10
d. 16

27. How many kW is available from the main shaft of an engine whose indicated power and friction
power are 20 kW and 3kW respectively?
a. 3
b. 20
c. 17
d. 23
28. What is the mechanical efficiency in item # 27?
a. 15%
b. 45%
c. 85%
d. 90%
29. In harrowing a field with a difficult terrain, 15 minutes is lost per 1 hour total field time. What is
the field efficiency?
a. 50%
b. 60%
c. 75%
d. 80%
30. If plenty of ‘corn hairs’ and bits of husk are found in the kernel outlet of a picker-sheller, which
part of the machine is not functioning normally?
a. Sheller
b. Trash rack
c. Picker
d. Fan
31. Finer size of output is desired from a chopping machine. What adjustment is necessary?
a. Increase the feeding rate
b. Sharpen the cutting mechanism
c. Decrease the feeding rate
d. Decrease the power input
32. The average number of seeds planted on a square meter of area is 6. What is the plant
population if the survival rate is 90%?
a. 10,000
b. 12,000
 c. 60,000
d. 54,000

33. A thresher pulley rotating at 800 rpm receives an applied torque of 320 N-m. What is the
applied power?
a. 26.8 kW
b. 84.2 kW
c. 8.53 kW
d. 13.4 kW
34. What is the tangential force, in Newtons, in the preceding problem if the pulley diameter is 30
cm?
a. 320
b. 1,067
c. 2,133
d. 960

35. Estimate the slippage of a tractor travelling at a forward speed of 7 kph when the rpm and
loaded radius of the drive wheels are 40 rpm and 50 cm respectively.
a. 7.2%
b. 53.6%
c. 14%
d. 99.5%
36. Which of these items is a non-cash expense in machine use costing?
a. Depreciation
b. Fuel cost
c. Insurance against theft
d. Labor cost
37. What kind of soil manipulation is done when the crops are already established in the fields?
a. Plowing
b. Harrowing
c. Pulverizing
d. Cultivation
38. The speed ratio between the ground wheel and the seedplate of a grain drill is 4:1. Find the
distance between hills if the ground wheel has an effective circumference of 1.6 m and the
seedplate has 16 cells.
a. 20 cm
b. 25 cm
c. 40 cm
d. 50 cm
39. This term refers to the process by which paddy rice is detached from the panicle prior to
harvesting.
a. Stripping
b. Shattering
c. Scattering
d. Pre-threshing
40. In manual threshing, the removal of chaffs and other light materials is done by_________?
a. Winnowing
b. Beating
 c. Stripping
d. Sieving
41. For a 4-stroke cycle engine running at 1,800 rpm, the valve range of the inlet valve is 240
degrees of crankshaft rotation. How long does the inlet valve remain close in one complete
engine cycle?
a. 0.011 second
b. 0.022 second
c. 0.033 second
d. 0.044 second
42. This special engine part ensures that the valves opening and closing are synchronized with the
different events in an internal combustion engine.
a. Piston
b. Connecting rod
c. Flywheel
d. Timing belt

43. How many liters of weedicide spray solution will be needed to spray a hectare of land when the
field capacity is 5 ha/hr and the nozzle discharge is 0.5 L/s?
a. 50
b. 120
c. 180
d. 360
44. A 2-m harrow works on a soil that requires 5 kN/m of width. What is the drawbar power
required to operate at 4.5 kph?
a. 45 kW
b. 10 kW
c. 12.5 kW
d. 36 kW
45. What is ROPS?
a. The rotation per second of a spinning machine part
b. A cab or frame installed on agricultural tractors to protect the operator from accidental
overturning during operation
c. A method of computing depreciation
d. Roll-over of principal and savings
46. A two-way plow is also known as __________.
a. Reversible plow
b. Mouldboard plow
c. Furrower
d. Chisel plow
47. A 3-bottom mouldboard plow has its front end directly connected to the tractor’s three-point
linkage and its rear end is supported by a land wheel. What is being described here?
a. Tractor-mounted mouldboard plow
b. Semi-mounted mouldboard plow
c. Trailing mouldboard plow
d. Hitched plow

48. What clearance volume is necessary to attain a compression ratio of 1:15 in a 10cmX10cm
engine?
 a. 50.2
b. 56.1
c. 57.5
d. 63.1
49. What engine part helps in maintaining a more or less uniform engine speed between power
pulses?
a. Crankshaft
b. Flywheel
c. Piston
d. Connecting rod
50. This is the horizontal angle made by the disc with the direction of travel.
a. Disc angle
b. Angle of tilt
c. Inclination angle
d. Slope
51. In plowing, this part of the farm refers to the area intended to be plowed but still untouched.
a. Land
b. Headland
c. Idle land
d. Disposable land
52. The reciprocal of the time devoted to plowing over the area covered is ________.
a. Rpm
b. Field capacity
c. Field requirement
d. Field time
53. The drawbar force required in plowing using a carabao-drawn mouldboard plow is 1,000
newtons. What is the pull developed in the draw rope between the hitchpoint and the yoke if
the pull angle is 36 degrees?
a. 126 kg
b. 174 kg
c. 102 kg
d. 203 kg

54. Find the drawbar power, in kW, utilized by a tractor pulling a 1,500 kg loaded wagon up a 20%
slope when the coefficient of rolling resistance is 0.10 for all wheels and the speed of travel is 4
kph.
a. 16.35
b. 8.0
c. 1.67
d. 4.8
55. What is the drawbar power in item # 54 if the tractor and wagon are travelling over a flat land?
a. 1.63 kW
b. 1.47 kW
c. 4.8 kW
d. 3,26 kW
56. What is implied if the width of cut during harrowing is greater than the physically measured
width of the harrow?
a. There is an overlap
 b. The operator has left part of the field uncovered
c. The harrowing pattern is inefficient
d. Slippage of the wheels is excessive
57. It is a long term pro-active measure to gradually shift fuel sources from non-renewable to
renewal supplies.
a. Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act
b. Agricultural Engineering Code
c. Agri-agra Law
d. Bio-fuels Act

58. The collective term for any soil preparation after plowing but before planting.
a. Primary tillage
b. Secondary tillage
c. Cultivation
d. Soil conditioning
59. What fuel has the chemical formula CH 4
a. Methane
b. Butane
c. Cetane
d. Octane
60. What kind of power is available in the main shaft of an engine?
a. Solar power
b. Shaft power
c. Indicated power
d. Friction power