Landscape products Title: Authorls: Date: Engineering of domestic lawnmowers L. Mower January 2000 Abstract This engineering report will examine the engineenng of the domestic lawnmower with a focus on the handle. It will look at the materials used, examine working forces systems and consider certain safety aspects and make recommendations for further development. Introduction This Engineering Report will investigate lawnmower handles. The report aims to: identify and distinguish various materials investigate and analyse mechanical situations involving the use of a lawnmower communicate technical information and data relating to the handle design evaluate and make recommendations based on the information collected. Analysis Development of the lawn mower In less than 200 years machinery for maintaining domestic lawns has evolved from hand tools, such as the scythe, to electronically controlled devices like the solar powered mower.
Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie John Mack Faragher’s book, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, was written in 1986. The book brings a great picture about the lives of people who lived in Illinois in 1800s. In it, Faragher examined the development of the Sugar Creek area of Sangamon County, Illinois from 1817 through the 1880s. Faragher began his project on Sugar Creek in order to understand more about early nineteenth-century Americans who lived in the Midwest and the change of life of people in the particular area of the Illinois Prairie. As Professor Don H.Doyle says on the book that: “This is the story of birth and development of a rural American community, from its origins at the turn of the nineteenth century to the years that followed the Civil War.
In that year a 33-year-old pioneer blacksmith designed and made a ‘self-polishing’ steel plough in his small blacksmiths shop in Illinois. This was made from a broken saw blade and John saw that the plough was capable of slicing through thick, sticky prairie soil efficiently without becoming stuck. As it cut the furrow it became polished and this ensured that the soil would not stick. It was a major breakthrough in farming technology and became the first commercially successful steel plough in America. The plough was fundamental in opening the American Midwest to agriculture and ensured high levels of crop production which was extremely important at
It is a scythe with an arrangement of fingers attached to the handle such that the cut grain falls upon the fingers and can be cleanly laid down in a row for collection. The center of interest in this agricultural tool was the American Midwest, where grain growing was a major industry. The cradle was used in the smaller farms that were not designed for mechanical reaping and in part because there were still a great number of smaller farms where the mechanical reaper was not economical. However, by the end of the 19th century the cradle had been generally replaced by the mechanical reaper, a horse-drawn machine and later by other mechanical methods of harvesting such as the combine harvester. Finishing the harvest each season is the reward for a year's hard work.
The Cudgen soil conservation project is one of the most recent projects. The project is run by the Tweed Shire Council and Land Care, the aim of the project is to work with land holders to keep the soil on the paddocks. The project includes minor modifications to the interface between paddocks and drainage lines. Berms along drainage lines direct runoff into small settling ponds which slow the flow, giving the muddy water time to settle out. Farmers can then retrieve the soil that would have otherwise ended up in downstream waterways (Cudgen
Neolithic / Agricultural Revolution – Discovery of agriculture from experimenting with seeds -Used slash and burn technique and eventually learned about the breeding of animals. River Valley Civilizations * Mesopotamia (Tigris & Euphrates) * Sumer-Population of 100,000 * –People built temples, public buildings, defensive walls, and irrigation systems. * –By 3000 bce the cities had kings
What is your distance to the closest farm? What crops are produced there? What fertilizers are applied and when? Soil: Loams, sandy loams, loamy sands Distance to nearest farm: 5.4 Miles Crops: List of what is provided daily http://www.freshfieldsfarm.com/category/jacksonville/#freshtoday Fertilizer Type: Pharmasoil 4) What is the major biome and vegetation type in your area? Biome: Wet lands Vegetation: Daffodil, Narcissus ‘Tete-a-Tete’ Narcissus 5) What is the genus and species of two dominant plants and two dominant animals in your area (no pets)?
The fringe is a main attraction for shopping centers, cemeteries, hospitals, colleges, prison facilities, many farms, recreation facilities such as golf courses and horse racing sites, retail parks, waste disposal sites, business parks, and a large range of residential sites. Based on studies and research, there appears to be four different types of rural-urban fringe (Figure 2). All types of developments found on any rural-urban fringe are manifested through the influence of agricultural policy, regional planning, the urban economy and the agricultural economy. The first is that of disturbed landscapes. This fringe is characterized by urban sprawl, higher incomes, more housing, industrial growth, more services, increased mobility, and more recreation.
Essay 1 We as a species have defined ourselves by three main areas needed for survival. The main areas required for life are food, housing, and clothing. Through the American industrial revolution ages Americans have evolved into specialization and became less dependant of growing our own individual food. We now outsource this task to farmers and agriculturalists in far off lands. The definition of a garden takes many shapes, sizes, and forms.
The Three Causes to Soil Erosion The three causes for soil erosion are over cultivating, overgrazing, and deforestation. Over cultivation is the repeated process of the soil being plowed to control weeds; this exposes the soil to water and wind erosion. A solution to this would be no-till agriculture which is a technique that allows a planting apparatus connected to the back of a tractor to spray herbicide, cut a furrow, drop seeds and fertilizer in furrow and then closes it. At harvest time the process in repeated never leaving the soil exposed, erosion and water loss is reduced, and there is enough detritus including roots from the previous crop to maintain the topsoil. Another cause for erosion is overgrazing; which is the constant grazing of animals on plants without allowing the plants any recovery time.