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2. Hori hori - Wikipedia

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   The blade is made of carbon or stainless steel that is concave shaped to make it ideal for digging and prying. The blade has a large smooth wooden handle for comfortable use with one hand. It can serve as a small hand axe. The size of the tool varies from 11 to 15 inches (280 to 380 mm) in total length, depending on the size of the handle.

3. Mattock - Wikipedia

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   A mattock (/ ˈ m æ t ə k /) is a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to the pickaxe, it has a long handle and a stout head which combines either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze (cutter mattock), or a pick and an adze (pick mattock). A cutter mattock is similar to a Pulaski used in fighting fires.

4. Pulaski (tool) - Wikipedia

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   A Pulaski combines the functions of an axe and an adze in one tool. The Pulaski is a specialty hand tool used in fighting fires, particularly wildfires, [1] which combines an axe and an adze in one head. Similar to a cutter mattock, it has a rigid handle of wood, plastic, or fiberglass.

5. Spade - Wikipedia

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   A digging fork, or grape, not referred to as a spade, is forked much like a pitchfork, and is useful for loosening ground and gardening. The fishtail spade has a flared triangular blade combining the versatility of the dutch hoe and power of the common round point shovel into a multipurpose tool. Small spades are made as toys for children.

6. Adze - Wikipedia

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   They range in size from 00 to 5 being 3 + 1 / 4 to 4 + 3 / 4 pounds (1.5–2.2 kg) with the cutting edge 3 to 4 + 1 / 2 inches (75–115 mm) wide. [13] On the modern, steel adze the cutting edge may be flat for smoothing work to very rounded for hollowing work such as bowls, gutters and canoes.

7. Hoe (tool) - Wikipedia

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   A hoe is an ancient and versatile agricultural and horticultural hand tool used to shape soil, remove weeds, clear soil, and harvest root crops. Shaping the soil includes piling soil around the base of plants ( hilling ), digging narrow furrows ( drills ) and shallow trenches for planting seeds or bulbs .