1. Agricultural Mechanics Carpentry
Carpentry Tools
Agricultural Mechanics
Carpentry

2. Next Generation Science/Common Core Standards Addressed!
CCSS.ELALiteracy.RST.9‐10.4 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain‐specific words and phrases as they are
used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades –10 texts and topics.
CCSS.ELALiteracy.RST.9‐10.7 Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table
or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.
CCSS.ELALiteracy.RST.11‐12.9 Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent
understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.

3. Agriculture, Food and Natural Resource Standards Addressed!
PST Apply physical science and engineering principles to design, implement and improve safe and efficient mechanical systems in AFNR situations.
PST a. Identify the tools, machines and equipment needed to construct and/or fabricate a project in AFNR.

4. Asphalt Shingle
The most common type of roofing shingle. It generally has three tabs. The top black portion is nailed down and covered by the colored portion.

5. Auger Bit
Used for boring holes through wood. With a square tapered shank, it can be used in a bit brace

6. Back Saw
Used for bench sawing of dovetail joints, dado joints, and other joints where wood is held with a vise or miter box.

7. Bar Clamp
Used to clamp glued wood joints until dry or positioning metal until welded.

8. Biscuit Jointer
Cuts a football shaped groove into the ends of lumber. A biscuit wafer is inserted into the notch to form a glue joint.

9. Block Plane
Used to plane small pieces of lumber and ends of moldings, trim and siding.

10. Butt Hinge
Used for hanging various types of doors. The hinge is set into the grain notch, flush with the wood.

11. Carpenter’s Framing Square
Used for squaring boards and timbers, measuring and laying out rafters.

12. Carpenter’s Level or Plumb Level
Used for checking, laying out or marking vertical or horizontal level lines. It can also be used for leveling and plumbing objects.

13. Caulking Gun
Used to apply caulking for sealing cracks or applying adhesive for gluing.

14. Chain Saw
Used to cut trees, logs, and heavy timber. Chain saws are gasoline or electrically powered. The size of the saw is determined by the length of the bar and the horsepower or displacement of the engine.

15. Chalk Line
Used for marking a long straight line on a board, wall, ceiling, or floor. A chalk line is a string that has been coated with chalk dust so it leaves a line when snapped.

16. Circular Saw Blade
Used for ripping or crosscutting wood. It forms a complete circle and has saw teeth all the way around the circular edge.

17. Combination Square
Used as a try square, miter, depth gauge, plumb level, locating the center on the end of round stock or measuring angles depending on which head is used. The three heads used on a combination square are: square-miter, center, and bevel protractor.

18. Corner Clamp
Used to hold lumber in place when gluing wood frames to a ninety degree corner.

19. Corrugated Fiberglass Siding
Commonly used in greenhouses. Inexpensive wall material which allows some light to pass through. Corrugation provides strength.

20. Corrugated Metal Siding
Commonly used in barn and shed construction. Corrugation provides great strength.

21. Countersink
Used to countersink holes for flathead wood and machine screws and stove bolts.

22. Curved Claw Hammer
Used for driving and pulling nails. It is the most common hammer used by the carpenter. The size of the hammer is determined by the weight of its head.

23. Dado Saw Set
Used to cut grooves/joints in lumber. Adjustable to various thicknesses.

24. Dowel Rod
Round rods which come in assorted sizes, used to insert into drilled holes when gluing wood together.

25. Dry wall Screwdriver
Designed specifically to drive drywall screws through sheetrock into the support walls behind it.

26. Felt Paper
Used as a underlayment material for shingles or rolled roofing materials. Aids I shedding water that may get under the roofing materials.

27. Flashing
Thin galvanized metal strips placed under roofing material to protect the edges of exposed lumber to prevent weathering.

28. Folding Rule
Used for taking or laying off long or short measurements where rigid support is needed.

29. Glass Cutter
Used to score and cut glass.

30. Hand Saw
Used for straight sawing in hand woodworking. The size of the saw is determined by the length of the blade from toe to heel. The coarseness for fineness of the saw cut is determined by the number of points (teeth) per inch. Available for either cross cutting (across the grain) or ripping (with the grain).

31. Hand Screw
Used to clamp flat wood joints after applying glue.

32. Hinge Hasp
Used for fastening doors or lids and a place for a lock is provided.

33. Hole Saw
Used with an electric drill to bore round holes in wood or other materials.

34. Insulation
Used in home construction to insulate between wall studs and in ceilings. May come in sheets or rolls.

35. Jig Saw or Saber Saw
Used to make straight or bevel cuts and cutting circles or curved shapes in lumber.

36. Keyhole or Compass Saw
Used to cut irregular shapes or work where space is limited. The blade tapers from the handle to a sharp point.

37. Line Level
Used to check the level of foundations and other construction jobs, when attached to a string line. Also used to line up bricks & blocks

38. Marking Gauge
Used when marking lines parallel to the edges of material.

39. Metal Stud
Used as a replacement for lumber framing when called for by building codes.

40. Miter Box and Saw
Used for squaring wood stock and cutting angles from 90 degrees in either direction. The miter box guides the blade when forming miter cuts and other types of joints.

41. Nail-Set
Used to set heads of nails (casing and finishing) below the surface of wood.

42. Paint Roller
Used to apply paint rapidly over a larger area.

43. Palm/Finish Sander
Sander provides the smooth surface needed before wood finish is applied.

44. Particle Board
Constructed of sawdust and wood chips which are fused together. Most commonly used in flooring.

45. Plywood
A sheet of wood that is formed by gluing thin layers of wood together. Exceptional strength. Commonly used for roofing, floors, decks, and walls.

46. Pneumatic Finish Nail Gun
Used to apply finish nails rapidly with little surface distortion.

47. Pneumatic Nail Gun
Used for rapid framing of large structures.

48. Portable Belt Sander
Most powerful of the portable sanders These sanders are used to strip off paint and varnish, and remove rust and corrosion.

49. Portable Circular Saw
Used to cut structural lumber and rip plywood, strand board etc.

50. Portable Power Planer
Used to smooth surfaces of lumber prior to sanding.

51. Power/Battery Charger
Used to charge a variety of batteries.

52. Power Fastener
It is loaded with a nail which is propelled by a blank cartridge after the trigger is pulled.

53. Power Hammer
It is loaded with a nail which is propelled by a blank cartridge. It fires after being struck by a hammer.

54. Power Miter Saw
Fast cutting of lumber and trim to a specific angle.

55. Ring Shank Nail
The rings on the nail prevent the nail from slipping.

56. Rolled Roofing
Alternative to shingles. Inexpensive, fast application.

57. Roofing Insulation Caps
A ring shank nail with a large plastic head that will hold down roofing materials.

58. Roofing Tins
Round pieces of sheet metal that a nail/screw is driven through to hold down roofing.

59. Roto Zip
Used to cut out a variety of shapes or openings in stationary items such as a wall.

60. Router
Used to cut irregular shapes and form various contours on edges.

61. Router Bit
Used to shape the edges of lumber.

62. Scratch Awl
Used as a scribe in layout work and punching starter holes for wood screws.

63. Scroll Saw
Used to cut intricate designs in thin lumber.

64. Sheet Rock
To line interior walls. May be taped and bedded and finish texture applied prior to painting.

65. Sheet Rock Square
Used as a straight edge to cut sheet rock.

66. Sliding “T” Bevel
Used to transfer angles from one piece of stock to another and is very useful for laying out cuts on rafters.

67. Spade Bit
Used for boring large holes in soft wood with portable electric hand drills.

68. Speed Square
Used for marking, laying out angles and squaring as other types of squares.

69. Spiral Nail
Generally longer than a ring shank nail with the same purpose, to prevent slippage.

70. Staple gun
Used to attach light gauge materials together where a nail is too heavy or time consuming.

71. Steel Tape
Used for lay out work and measuring straight or curved surfaces and around corners.

72. Straight Claw or Ripping Hammer
Used to drive nails and the ripping claw, which is nearly straight, may be driven between fastened lumber to pry them apart.

73. Strand Board
Inexpensive substitute for plywood. Manufactured by gluing wood chips together.

74. Strap Hinge
Used on barns, doors, and gates. It is the most common type of hinge used on the farm. It is available from 2” up to 12” in light, heavy, and extra heavy steel.

75. Structural Lumber
Two inch thick materials are used for framing walls, floors, and decks. One inch thick materials are commonly used for walls, roofing, and flooring. Common widths are 4”, 6”, 8”, 10”, and 12”.

76. Stud Finder
Electronic device used to locate wood and metal studs that are covered with wall board of some type.

77. “T” Hinge
Used where the butt end of the hinge is to be fastened into a stud of timber. The hinge looks like half of a butt hinge and half of a strap hinge.

78. Table Saw Miter Gauge
Used on a table saw to guide wood through the blade when cutting at a specific angle.

79. Tack Hammer
Used for driving tacks in canvas and screen wire. The head is magnetic.

80. Taping Knife
Used to apply joint compound on seams in sheet rock.

81. Torpedo Level
Used in limited spaces for leveling, pluming, and 45 degree miters. It has v-grooved working edge for pipe and conduit work. Overall length of 9” is most common.

82. Treated Lumber
Lumber that is chemically treated to resist moisture and insects. Generally a dull green color. Most frequently in structural sizes 2” thick.

83. Try Square
Used primarily as a testing tool for checking the squareness of corner fits and ends of boards.

84. Underlayment Nail
Used to nail underlayment when roofing. There is a wider gap between the head and retaining ring than you see on a ring shank nail.

85. Wallboard Anchor
Used to attach/anchor items to a standing sheet rock wall.

86. Wood Chisel
Used to trim and cut away wood to form joints and recesses. It is held with the bevel down for a roughing cut and with the bevel up for a paring cut.

87. Wood Rasp
Used for smoothing rough work and for removing small amounts of wood on curved or irregular shaped objects.

88. Wood Scraper
Used for scraping and smoothing surfaces of flat materials before sanding or painting.

89. Wooden Biscuit
Used to glue two pieces of lumber together. Inserted into a previously cut notch.

90. Woodworker’s Vise
Used for holding wood stock.

91. The End!