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Bale spears can often move both round and square large bales. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Bale squeezes are used with bales that are wrapped for silage , [ 5 ] large piles of large and small square bales, [ 6 ] as well as a special squeeze that can be used to unroll large round bales for winter feeding. [ 7 ]
Pitching hay. A pitchfork or hay fork is an agricultural tool used to pitch loose material, such as hay, straw, manure, or leaves. It has a long handle and usually two to five thin tines designed to efficiently move such materials. The term is also applied colloquially, but inaccurately, to the garden fork.
A baler or hay baler is a piece of farm machinery used to compress a cut and raked crop (such as hay, cotton, flax straw, salt marsh hay, or silage) into compact bales that are easy to handle, transport, and store. Often, bales are configured to dry and preserve some intrinsic (e.g. the nutritional) value of the plants bundled.
Spear-armed hoplite from Greco-Persian Wars. A spear is a polearm consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with fire hardened spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as bone, flint, obsidian, copper, bronze, iron, or steel.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of types of spears found worldwide throughout history. Used equally in melee and thrown ... This list is ...
A swather (North America), or windrower (Australia and rest of world), is a farm implement that cuts hay or small grain crops and forms them into a windrow for drying. Crimper rollers and cutting discs. They may be self-propelled with an engine, or drawn by a tractor and power take-off powered. [1]
Hay rakes were among the first agricultural tools to become popular in the shift from human manual labor to animal labor in the 19th century. [ 1 ] The typical early horse-drawn hay rake was a dump rake , a wide two-wheeled implement with curved steel or iron teeth usually operated from a seat mounted over the rake with a lever-operated lifting ...
The Clacton Spear, or Clacton Spear Point, is the tip of a wooden spear discovered in Clacton-on-Sea in 1911. At approximately 400,000 years old, it is the oldest known worked wooden implement. At approximately 400,000 years old, it is the oldest known worked wooden implement.