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The sappie serves to rotate trunks and beams, sometimes also to pull them (cf. cant hook, ring dog). It is a pointed, slightly curved iron of about 25-30 cm, with an eye at the end, into which a straight or curved handle of 1.10-1.40 m protrudes (weight: 2.5-5 kg). The iron is placed on the ground, under the trunk. The user pulls on the handle, which is almost vertical. The point then sticks into the wood and the trunk rolls. When a piece is pulled, the user punches his tool into the wood, as he sometimes does with his axe, to have a grip. [MOT]

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Cast iron kitchen utensil consisting of a round plate (approx. 5-8 cm diameter; approx. 1-3 cm thick), attached in the middle to a bent, long (approx. 40 cm) handle, with or without wooden handle. When the salamander is heated red hot over the gas or in the fire, it can be used to brown the top of gratin dishes or sugared desserts with a crispy crust or a layer of caramel.The salamander is almost indistinguishable from the hat iron, a similar tool that was heated on the stove and used to iron the inside of hats. [MOT]

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

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

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

If you want to set the teeth of a saw (see saw-setting iron and saw-setting pliers) and / or files (see saw file), the saw blade can be fixed in a saw file holder. It consists of two wooden boards (approx. 10-50 cm long) that can be tightened with one or more screws. There are loose and fixed models that can be screwed to the workbench. [MOT]

Wide chisel (up to 8 cm) with one or two bevels, a tang and a neck, or a socket and a shank, or all metal (1). Unlike the mortise chisel, the firmer chisel is for heavy-duty work: carving out a pin, hollowing out a drill bit hole, etc. The handle is usually fitted with one or two ferrules to prevent cracking. Some chisels with a triangular cross-section, which often get thicker towards the handle (2), are only slightly wider than thick. The Japanese chisel (Japanese: õire nomi), also for the heavier work, is used in a set with different widths and lengths. See also the joiner's gouge. [MOT] (1) See a long specimen (95 cm) in "Les moulins": 24. (2) Eg. GROTH: 196.

The butcher makes sausages with a sausage stuffer. It consists of a metal cylinder with a narrow tube at the bottom, in the middle two handles opposite each other and an accompanying wooden pestle (piston) with crank. Finely chopped meat, mixed with fat, bread, spices, etc., is placed in the cylinder and pushed through the restriction with the pestle. The handles are held with both hands, while the crutch is held against the stomach. A well-cleaned intestine, hung over the tube, becomes filled with the meat. The butcher can also use a simple sausage stuffer horn through which the meat is pushed with the thumb or use the heavier sausage filler, driven with a crank. [MOT]