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The barking shovel serves to cut off some strips of bark and the twigs of felled conifers.   The tree is on the ground, the lumberman puts the cut on the trunk, on the thick side, takes the handle or the globe in his right hand, the shaft in his left and pushes the tool forward. The sphere makes the tool heavier and provides a better grip. The shaft is about one meter long. The barking shovel can be distinguished from the large barking iron and the bill hook. The first has a blunt and much less broad blade. Its handling is different: the barking shovel slides along the trunk, the barking iron is pushed sideways between wood and bark. The bill hook has a shorter and less broad blade on a much longer shaft. [MOT]

The leaves and heads of the sugar beet are cut off with the beet topper (1). It can be a large knife with a convex curved blade and a straight handle, such as a bread knife or a piece of the blade of a scythe with the point broken off (2). In another model, the blade is trapezoidal and the edge is straight. The beet topping hoe or the mechanical beet-cutter is also used for the same purpose. [MOT] (1) According to V.A.W.P.: 1.360, there are also tools in the form of a vegetable chopping knife for that purpose. (2) Eg. JEWELL: 15.

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

The farmer lifts the beets with a beet lifting fork or beet lifting spade. However, when the soil is very moist, these hand tools are of little use. One then uses these beet lifting tongs, which one holds with both hands. [MOT]

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For more technical information on the basket shave of a basket maker, you can visit the dutch version of this page. [MOT]

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