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The grain shovel is a wooden shovel (approx. 150 cm long) used to stir the grain and to scoop it into the winnowing machine and bags. See also grain scoop and grain scoop bin. To be distinguished from the mould board shovel. [MOT]

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/grafters-froe?lang=nl>

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/grain-scoop?lang=nl>

In contrast to the hand cultivator, which is continuously pulled, the claw is pulled with jerks and the soil is loosened superficially. It is narrower (approx. 5-10 cm) and therefore especially suitable for narrow spaces in the rows and vegetables in the vegetable garden and for dense flower beds. The claw has 3 to 5 round and pointed teeth, of which the middle one protrudes in front of the other, and a wooden or plastic handle (approx. 20-140 cm). If the handle is long, the gardener stands upright; if the handle is short, then the work is bent or crouched. Another model has thick (approx. 0.5 cm) flat teeth - lying in one row - and is connected to the handle by means of a tang. It is distinguishable from an all-metal model that is used in hardware stores to pull nails out of a pile (1). There is also a model with 2 flat, wide (approx. 1 cm) teeth with a long (approx. 35 cm) tang that sticks into a wooden handle (approx. 15 cm). See also the weeding hoe, weeding fork, garden pulverizer...

English translation in progress. You can find more technical information about the grindstone on this page in dutch. [MOT]

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/groove-tapper?lang=nl>

The hachoir is a knife with a semicircular blade and a straight handle attached in the top center of the blade. It is used to finely chop small quantities of herbs, which are placed in the corresponding concave wooden bowl. Thus, one can either move the knife back and forth and cut the herbs or chop up and down with the blade perpendicular to the bottom. In the meantime, the bowl should be turned from time to time. [MOT]

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/hacking-knife?lang=nl>

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/gun-powder-measure?lang=nl>

This text can only be consulted in Dutch.See also the spinning hackle. [MOT]