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This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/osier-chopping-knife?lang=nl>

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/painters-pocket-knife?lang=nl>

You can find more technical information about the oyster knife on this page in dutch. [MOT]

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This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/lead-hammer?lang=nl>

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/pair-of-outside-callipers?lang=nl>

The house painter and do-it-yourselfer use a pot opener to lift the lid of the hermetically sealed paint cans to allow air to enter and open the can. The paint pot opener is a flat metal rod (approx. 10-15 cm) with the end (approx. 1 cm) folded back and thinned for easier access under the lid. The rod then serves as a lever of the first kind. If the end is not folded over, it will be in the shape of a flat screwdriver and / or hook. Slightly shorter models are provided with a ring to put more pressure, sometimes they are combined with a can pierce or a bottleopener. [MOT]

Anyone who harvests edible mushrooms in the forest or in a meadow, cuts them to the ground with a knife (except when it concerns agarics, which have to be dug out). One cleans them on the spot. There is a special pocket knife for this purpose, which is a compound tool, with a blade to cut off the mushroom stem and a boar bristle brush to remove soil and dirt; that brush may or may not be collapsible. On the back of the blade there are sometimes teeth to remove coarser dirt or, according to some, the outer layer of the skin (the 'cuticule') (1). [MOT] (1) http://www.opinel.com/ (January 2021).

Fire tongs can be used to move burning pieces of wood. It is quite long, so that the hands are kept at a sufficient distance from the fire and the burning pieces of wood. The fire tongs are often part of a fireplace set, which can also contain an ash shovel, a fork and a brush. The fire tongs are very different from charcoal tongs, which are lighter and often shorter. It is therefore only intended to take a coal from the fireplace and light the pipe with it. See also the clinker tongs. [MOT]

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/oyster-shucker?lang=nl>