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

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

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

The fruit picker is a hand tool to pick the last fruit from a tall tree. For more technical information, see the dutch version of this tool file. [MOT]

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

A froe-maul is a piece of hard round wood (including hornbeam) of about 30-40 cm, one end of which has been cut thinner to serve as a handle. With the froe-maul, the cooper strikes the cleaving knife and the lath maker, on the cleaving iron. [MOT]

During the baking of bricks in an annular kiln, small amounts of coal are added from above. The coal is poured into a long narrow funnel with a coal shovel (see coal scoop (brick maker)). It is held with the left hand while the right hand empties the full scoop. [MOT]

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

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

Today it is a spade with an iron, more or less rectangular or triangular blade, about a third longer than it is wide (approx. 27 x 18 cm), which is an extension of a ball, T or D handle (1) . The size of the blade depends on the force required to lift and move the soil clod (2). The blade of the garden spade is sometimes provided with a footrest so as not to damage the shoe of the user. Exceptionally, an extension is attached to the top of the blade of the garden spade to use the tool as a spade (3). In the past, the garden spade was also made entirely of wood. She was shaken up then. Dimensions and shape of the blade can vary greatly. In Ireland there are even asymmetrical spades (4). The garden spade is used to dig the garden or field, to transplant crops and to dig (5). [MOT] (1) Tool length can vary widely depending on the region. In Belgium, for example, garden spades of about 110-120 cm are used, in Italy tools of 160 to 210 cm are used (see eg CENCELLI & LOTRIONE: 172). (2) For...