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The liquid manure scoop is a large spoon with usually a hemispherical (galvanized) iron scoop blade (diam. Approx. 25-30 cm) attached to a long (approx. 120-140 cm) wooden handle. With this tool, the vulture is scooped out of the manure tub and spread over mainly pasture. Sometimes a bucket or an old lump nailed to a handle is also used for this. To be distinguished from the bucket with long stick used to scoop the manure from the cesspool into the manure tub. A similar spoon, but made of copper, was used in Germany instead of the bleacher's shovel (2). [MOT] (1) "Die grosse Wäsche'': 161.

Hot laundry could be safely removed from the washing kettle with these laundry tongs. They were usually made of (beech) wood because it does not stain, is light and cheap. The metal parts such as the spindle or spring were often made of copper, because the tongs were certainly not allowed to rust. However, there are also iron and rubber or plastic laundry tongs. [MOT

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Leatherworker's shears (approx. 20 cm), one blade of which is rectangular (approx. 8 cm by 1 cm). The jaws are always kept perpendicular to the material to prevent irregular cutting edges in the leather. [MOT]

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