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By Sara Katz, Education Program Manager<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Farm Mechanic Basics Program (English) returned this past January, bringing area farmers and agricultural workers together for 9 full-day sessions of hands-on experience with tractor operation, maintenance, and basic repair. Please enjoy some highlights of this winter\u2019s program in a photo essay. Learn more about our program aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos by Sara Katz and Amy Wu <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah Groat<\/a> (left), a regional farm equipment educator who helped design the program, reviews maintenance tasks before participants change engine oil on the tractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jamie Nadler and Parisa Yekalamlari conduct routine tractor service checks as part of the training in Service and Maintenance I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was inspired to attend because working and maintaining a tractor or equipment is generally a barrier to moving up in the farm world. This class offered an amazing opportunity to understand equipment better and has given me more applicable skills to hold more responsibility on farms,\u201d says Jamie. This coming season she is launching her own operation, Dancing Greens Farm, in Great Barrington, MA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A key element of the program is to develop an understanding of the 2- and 4-stroke engine. Jayne Henson, founder and farmer at Transgenerational Farm<\/a>, in Accord, leads us through a discovery of the engine\u2019s parts and function in the classroom. Later in the day, she supports Jeff Silberman, a retired professor and farmer, with small engine maintenance. Jeff grows indigo for dye, as well as flax for linen. Students from the Fashion Institute of Technology come to harvest and process the indigo each year at his small farm in Westchester County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As students and instructors reflected on their experience in the course, Jayne said she could \u201csee the wheels turning, see things coming together for people as systems and that is very rewarding for a facilitator.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John DiMarco (left), a guest instructor, and the Facility Manager at Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, brought a morning of new content to the program this year, covering the basics of the electrical system of the tractor, with a focus on the battery. \u201cIt can be a very expensive part of their equipment but also can be dangerous if they are not taken care of properly,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat I would like them to walk away with today is a great understanding of what to do with your battery to recharge it, so that they don\u2019t burn it out or break it and so they don\u2019t have to buy a new one prematurely.\u201d John has 45 years of experience in the fields of auto and truck mechanics and heavy equipment operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The program features a number of rotating stations where students first explore the parts and then work hands-on with the equipment. Here, teams work to perform basic service on small engines, which included changing the engine oil, checking and cleaning the spark plug and adjusting the carburetor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA success for me was in small engines\u2026as we took things apart and discovered the various parts, the equipment was no longer completely inaccessible for me. I have more confidence and knowledge than I pictured ever having, which is a nice change to realize in myself,\u201d said one student as we reflected on the program as a group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At left, Kincaid Schmitz, a driver and farm hand at Roxbury Farm in Kinderhook, NY, conducts hands-on maintenance on the John Deere 4020 with instructor and (father-son) team Jesus Gonzalez and Jesus Gonzalez Negrete. \u201cI wanted to both learn more for my own personal knowledge and edification to understand the tools I use and just use them better,\u201d Kincaid says. \u201cI appreciate the space where it\u2019s ok to not know something. I could admit what I don\u2019t know, be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the final session of the program, Do It Yourself, students complete their own projects. Brian Rady, of Munner Farm<\/a> in Germantown, works on inspecting, cleaning and installing a replacement shear pin on an implement, a posthole digger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In another DIY project, Genevieve Harding, left, and Maggie Thomas of Great Song Farm, conduct a front axle oil change on our training tractor, the Kubota L5460.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to tractor service, maintenance, and troubleshooting, the program covers basic operation. On this seasonably warm winter day, students practiced attaching and detaching PTO-driven implements. (\u201cPTO\u201d stands for power take-off)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El Programa B\u00e1sico de Mec\u00e1nica Agr\u00edcola (en ingl\u00e9s) volvi\u00f3 el pasado invierno para su segundo a\u00f1o. El programa ofrece experiencia pr\u00e1ctica en el manejo, mantenimiento y reparaci\u00f3n b\u00e1sica de tractores en 9 sesiones de un d\u00eda de duraci\u00f3n. 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