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

"Machete" is a general term for a hand tool that is used daily in Latin and South America, Central Africa and Southeast Asia, including as a billhook. The tool is indispensable on the cocoa, coffee and sugarcane plantations, on the corn fields, in the hemp or sisal cultivation (1), but it is also an all-round tool par excellence. After all, with the machete you can also mow grass (2), chop cassava stems and peel cassava tubers, harvest bamboo, fell thin trees, cut your way in the jungle or in thorny vegetation, cut down coconuts, skin killed animals, cut meat and fish, dig tubers out of the ground, peel trees as with the strip drawing knife (3), etc.; it is also used as a weapon (4). The machete has a long (25 to 75 cm) metal blade (5). The back is straight or slightly concave, the cut is straight or rounded towards the tip (6). The blade can be 3 to 10 cm wide and cuts on one, exceptionally on both sides. The handle is made of wood, leather, rubber or plastic. Sometimes there is a hole...

This text about the marlingspike (1) can only be consulted in Dutch. (1) Marlingspike applies to the metal model; fid applies to the wooden model.

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

Wooden hammer with a metal plate on the track, on which a pattern of small nails is attached; those nails can form letters or a figure. The tanner marks the skins with the stamp hammer: when beating the nails, they make holes in the animal skin. See also the marking hammer of a lumberman. [MOT]

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/mason-s-brick-chisel?lang=nl>

Steel hammer (approx. 1-2 kg) with two square, flat tracks, usually chamfered at the corners, and a short (approx. 20 cm) handle. The bricklayer uses the mash hammer for demolition work. In doing so, he hits the pinch bar with the hammer. Distinguished from the club hammer which is heavier and has a longer handle. [MOT

This text can only be consulted in Dutch Barrel hook and mainspring punching pliers (MOT V 92.0424)

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

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