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Billhook, a version of the sickle used for cutting shrubs and branches; Death, a cultural personification depicted in some mythologies as wielding a scythe; Grain cradle, for aligning grain stems; Harpe, a Greek or Roman long sickle or scythe which doubled as a weapon; Kama (tool), a Japanese hand scythe used in farming, and martial arts
Hutton & Co. was a sickle, scythe and tool smiths based in Ridgeway, Derbyshire, England. The company was founded by The Hutton family in 1760 [1] and operated out of a number of locations around the village. The most notable workshop was located at High Lane and was known as the Phoenix Works.
Husky is a line of hand tools, pneumatic tools, and tool storage products. Though founded in 1924, it is now best known as the house brand of The Home Depot, where it is exclusively sold. Its hand tools are manufactured for Home Depot by Western Forge, Apex Tool Group, and Iron Bridge Tools. [1] Its slogan is "The toughest name in tools."
A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock.
Harpe, a Greek or Roman long sickle or scythe; Kama, a Japanese and Okinawan tool used like a bill hook, though shaped more like a small scythe, also used as a weapon in some martial arts; Kudi, an Indonesian billhook-axe hybrid, used as tool as well as weapon; Linoleum knife; Machete; Scythe; Sickle, the archetypal forerunner of the scythe
German cradle scythe from a painting by Ernst Henseler (1852–1940) A grain cradle or cradle, is a modification to a standard scythe to keep the cut grain stems aligned. The cradle scythe has an additional arrangement of fingers attached to the snaith (snath or snathe) to catch the cut grain so that it can be cleanly laid down in a row with the grain heads aligned for collection and efficient ...
The edge of a traditional rice sickle, such as one would purchase from a Japanese hardware store, continues to the handle without a notch, as this is unneeded for its intended use. The hard edge of the blade would be kept razor-sharp to enable efficient cutting of crops, though this is sometimes a cause of training accidents by unskilled ...
Equipment rental was first developed in Anglo-Saxon countries. It emerged in the UK after the First World War and has now become a multi-billion euro business providing a wide range of construction and industrial equipment for customers globally.The American Rental Association was founded as early as 1955, [1] and the first waves of consolidation took place in the 1970s in North America ...