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Takealot.com (stylised as takealot.com) [1] is a South African e-commerce company based in Cape Town, South Africa. It is regarded as South Africa's largest online retailer, [2][3] takealot.com has helped grow online shopping in South Africa, [4][5][6] and was the first local retailer to take part in Black Friday. [7][8] As of November 2019 ...
Tools include dividers, axes, chisel and mallet, beam cart, pit saw, trestles, and bisaigue . The men talking may be holding a story pole and rule (or walking cane). Shear legs are hoisting a timber. Below, the sticks on the log are winding sticks used to align the ends of a timber. Tools used in traditional timber framing date back thousands ...
The French Engineering Works, or FEW, is a manufacturer, exporter and importer of High Speed Steel cutting tools. The firm was founded in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1918 by Herman Moser to manufacture rock drill spares for the mining industry in Johannesburg. [1] The business diversified into manufacture of precision tools, and HSS cutting ...
A try square or try-square is a woodworking tool used for marking and checking 90° angles on pieces of wood. Though woodworkers use many different types of square, the try square is considered one of the essential tools for woodworking. [1] The square in the name refers to the 90° angle. To try a piece of wood is to check if the edges and ...
Pages in category "Tool manufacturing companies of South Africa" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A gimlet is a hand tool for drilling small holes, mainly in wood, without splitting. It was defined in Joseph Gwilt 's Architecture (1859) as "a piece of steel of a semi-cylindrical form, hollow on one side, having a cross handle at one end and a worm or screw at the other". [1] A gimlet is always a small tool.
A froe. A froe (or frow), shake axe or paling knife is a tool for cleaving wood by splitting it along the grain. It is an L-shaped tool, used by hammering one edge of its blade into the end of a piece of wood in the direction of the grain, then twisting the blade in the wood by rotating the haft (handle). A froe uses the haft as a lever to ...
An aluminum meat mallet, for tenderizing meat. Meat mallet. Cooking mallet for crushing crops. Indian cobbler tool kit, with an iron mallet. A mallet is a tool used for imparting force on another object, often made of rubber or sometimes wood, that is smaller than a maul or beetle, and usually has a relatively large head.