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A tractor-mounted tiller. Tines close-up. A cultivator pulled by a tractor in Canada in 1943. A cultivator (also known as a rotavator) is a piece of agricultural equipment used for secondary tillage. One sense of the name refers to frames with teeth (also called shanks) that pierce the soil as they are dragged through it linearly.
Harrow (tool) In agriculture, a harrow is a farm implement used for surface tillage. It is used after ploughing for breaking up and smoothing out the surface of the soil. The purpose of harrowing is to break up clods and to provide a soil structure, called tilth, that is suitable for planting seeds. Coarser harrowing may also be used to remove ...
Lawn aerator. Core lawn aerator attachment on a conventional front-tine garden tiller. A lawn aerator is a garden tool designed to create holes in the soil in order to help lawn grasses grow. [1] In compacted lawns, aeration improves soil drainage and encourages worms, microfauna and microflora which require oxygen. [2]
Tine (structural) Tines (/ ˈtaɪnz /; also spelled tynes), prongs or teeth are parallel or branching spikes forming parts of a tool or natural object. [1] They are used to spear, hook, move or otherwise act on other objects. They may be made of wood, bone, metal, or similar materials. The number of tines on tools varies widely – a pitchfork ...
Rake (tool) A rake (Old English raca, cognate with Dutch hark, German Rechen, from the root meaning "to scrape together", "heap up") is a broom for outside use; a horticultural implement consisting of a toothed bar fixed transversely to a handle, or tines fixed to a handle, and used to collect leaves, hay, grass, etc., and in gardening, for ...
Tiller (botany) A tiller is a shoot that arises from the base of a grass plant. The term refers to all shoots that grow after the initial parent shoot grows from a seed. [1][2] Tillers are segmented, each segment possessing its own two-part leaf. They are involved in vegetative propagation and, in some cases, also seed production.
A baby bald eagle that was shot multiple times in northern Pennsylvania is undergoing rehab treatment at a nonprofit wildlife rescue in the Pocono Mountains as officials search for a suspect. The ...
Gryllus religiosus Linnaeus, 1758. The European mantis (Mantis religiosa) is a large hemimetabolic insect in the family of the Mantidae ('mantids'), which is the largest family of the order Mantodea (mantises). [3] Their common name praying mantis is derived from the distinctive posture of the first pair of legs that can be observed in animals ...