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

Hand tool with a crescent-shaped or slightly curved blade (approx. 20-60 cm), the edge of which is sometimes provided with small teeth - oblique to the handle - and attached to a short handle (approx. 10-15 cm). The sickle, which weighs about 200-500 gr, is used to harvest (winter) grain, grass, beans, etc. With one hand you hold the stems, with the other - in which you keep the sickle - you cut them off. In general, therefore, cutting is done by friction. However, chopping is also done (1). Exceptionally, a toothed sickle was used as a knife to cut a clod of butter in all directions to get the hairs, straws and the like out (2). The Japanese sickle has an elongated, relatively short (approx. 15-20 cm) blade that is attached at right angles to an approx. 30-40 cm long stem. The edge is slightly concave; the back is convex and relatively wide (approx. 2-6 mm). That sickle weighs about 150 g and is used to cut grass and to harvest rice; a heavier version (approx. 500 g), for pruning shrubs...

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

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

Brush with stiff bristles or steel wire, often fan-shaped, and a straight or button-shaped handle. It is used to scrub the sink and dirty pots and pans. Modern dish brushes are made of plastic. See also the pan scrubber. [MOT]

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

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

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

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

The slate ripper is used to pull out the nails that hold the slates to a roof. It is a metal sheet of approx. 30-50 by 4-5 cm with lateral backward notches, one end of which is bent perpendicularly. A metal handle is forged at that end that ends in a hook. The slater pushes the sheet under the broken slate, grabs the nail into a notch and pulls the tool towards him; sometimes he hits the right-angled part with his hammer. [MOT]