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Usually wooden (approx. 40-60 cm x 15-20 cm), sometimes iron (approx. 25x35 cm) shovel (1) with raised edges and T-handle (approx. 65 cm) and usually a leather patch on top of the (wooden) blade. Sometimes a second handle is provided at the bottom of the handle (2). The wooden shovel is usually monoxile (except for the T-handle). The bosom shovel is used to scoop water or dredge from a ditch or liquid manure from a barge (3), also, by the brick and tile baker, to pour water over the clay during the preparation of that raw material. See also drag net, bleacher's shovel and sand shovel (brickmaker). [MOT] (1) SIRAG: 50. (2) Larousse Agricole: 1.523. (3) V.A.W.P.: 1.433.

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Ear tag pliers are used by animal breeders to pierce an ear and attach the ear tag in a single motion. They are therefore an alternative to punching tongs, which simply pierce the ear, either as a mark itself or to insert the tag pin later. Ear tag pliers are distinct from hog ring pliers. [MOT]

The age of a living tree can be determined with an increment borer (1). This hand tool is mainly used by the forest ranger, the arborist and the dendrochronologist. More technical information on the dutch version of this page. [MOT](1) HUGGARD & OWEN, Forest tools and instruments, 1960: 48.

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