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Shaving horse. A shaving horse (shave horse, or shaving bench [1]) is a combination of vice and workbench, used for green woodworking. Typical usage of the shaving horse is to create a round profile along a square piece, such as for a chair leg or to prepare a workpiece for the pole lathe. They are used in crafts such as coopering and bowyery.
Using a drawknife in making a flatbow. A drawknife is commonly used to remove large slices of wood for flat faceted work, to debark trees, or to create roughly rounded or cylindrical billets for further work on a lathe, or it can shave like a spokeshave plane, where finer finishing is less of concern than a rapid result.
The shaving horse is used in combination with the drawknife or spokeshave to cut down green or seasoned wood, to accomplish jobs such as handling an ax; creating wooden rakes, hay forks, walking sticks, etc. The shaving horse was used by various trades, from farmer to basketmaker and wheelwright.
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Equisetum arvense is toxic to stock, particularly horses. [22] It was introduced into New Zealand in the 1920s and was first identified as an invasive species there by Ella Orr Campbell in 1949. [23] It is listed on the National Pest Plant Accord, prohibiting its sale, spread and cultivation. [24]
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A young steer is being branded with an electric branding iron and cut to make an earmark. Branding calves in Colorado, c. 1900. Photochrom print Hot iron horse branding, Spain Modern portable table calf branding cradle, NSW, Australia A stud Merino ram that has been branded on his horn.