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| x Lawn aerator |
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A lawn aerator is a garden tool or machine designed to aerate the soil in which lawn grasses grow. Aeration improves soil drainage and encourages worms, microfauna and microflora which require oxygen.
Lawn aeration constitutes two things:...
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| x Lawn mower |
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A lawn mower is a machine that uses a revolving blade or blades to cut a lawn at an even length.
Lawn mowers employing a blade that rotates about a vertical axis are known as rotary mowers, while those employing a blade assembly that rotates about a...
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| x Cultivator |
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Power tool |
A cultivator is any of several types of farm implement used for secondary tillage. One sense of the name refers to frames with teeth (also called shanks) that pierce the soil as they are dragged through it linearly. Another sense refers to machines...
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| x String trimmer |
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A string trimmer, also known as a strimmer, line trimmer, weed whacker, weed whip, weed eater, weedy, or whipper snipper, is a powered handheld device that uses a flexible monofilament line instead of a blade for cutting grass and other plants near...
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| x Hedge trimmer |
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| x Leaf blower |
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A leaf blower is a gardening tool that propels air out of a nozzle to move yard debris such as leaves. Leaf blowers are usually powered by two-stroke engine or an electric motor, but four-stroke engines were recently introduced to partially address...
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| x Chainsaw |
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A chainsaw (or chain saw) is a portable mechanical saw, powered by electricity, compressed air, hydraulic power, or most commonly a two-stroke engine. It is used in activities such as tree felling, limbing, bucking, pruning, by tree surgeons to fell...
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| x Broadfork | Hand tool | ||
| x Brush hook | Hand tool |
A brush hook (also called a bush hook, ditch blade, ditch bank blade, or ditch blade axe) is a gardening instrument resembling an axe with a 12-inch (30 cm) curved blade and a 36-inch (91 cm) handle. It is commonly used by surveying crews and...
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| x Coa de jima | Hand tool |
A coa de jima or coa ("hoe for harvesting", "hoe") is a specialized tool for harvesting agaves.
It is a long, machete-like round-ended knife on a long wooden handle used by a jimador to cut the leaves off an agave being harvested and to cut the...
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| x Cradle |
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| x Dibber | Hand tool |
A dibber or dibble is a pointed wooden stick for making holes in the ground so that seeds, seedlings or small bulbs can be planted. Dibbers come in a variety of designs including the straight dibber, T-handled dibber, trowel dibber, and L-shaped...
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| x Edger |
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An edger (also known as a lawn edger or stick edger) is a garden tool used to cleanly separate a lawn from a walkway or other paved surface, such as a concrete sidewalk or asphalt path. Edgers may be manual or automated, typically employing a small...
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| x Flail |
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| x Foot plough | Hand tool |
The foot plough is a type of spade used for cultivation, in the north west of Scotland. The Scottish Gaelic language contains many terms for the various varieties, e.g. cas-dhìreach (straight foot) for the straighter variety and on, but cas-chrom ...
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| x Garden fork |
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| x Garden Weasel |
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| x Grafter |
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A grafter is a gardening tool used for grafting fruit trees. The grafter is usually in the form of a small knife made of thin metal. It allows for an incision to be made on the branches or trunk of the rootstock for the insertion of the graft.
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| x Grass shears |
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Hand tool |
Grass shears differ from pruning shears in being long-handled and having the handles at right-angles to the blades. They can be used to cut grass from a standing position. Two kinds are available: with the blades horizontal and with the blades...
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| x Hoe |
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| x Kaiser blade |
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Hand tool |
A kaiser blade, or sling blade, is a heavy, hooked, steel blade at the end of a 40-inch (100 cm) handle that is usually made of hickory. It is used to cut brush, briar, and undergrowth. The blade is double-edged, and both sides are usually kept...
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| x Kirpi | Hand tool |
The kirpi is a small traditional hand weeding tool. It evolved in India as a multi-purpose gardening implement. The tool has a wooden handle and a curved blade. The cutting edge on the outside curve of the blade can be used for hand hoeing, while...
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| x Kunai | Hand tool | ||
| x Loppers |
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Loppers are a type of scissors used for pruning twigs and small branches. They are the largest type of manual garden cutting tool. They are usually operated with two hands, and with handles around 65 cm long to give good leverage. Some have...
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| x Mammoty |
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| x Mattock |
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| x Pitchfork |
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Hand tool |
A pitchfork is an agricultural tool with a long handle and long, thin, widely separated pointed tines (also called prongs) used to lift and pitch (throw) loose material, such as hay, leaves, grapes, dung or other agricultural materials. Pitchforks...
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| x Post hole digger |
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A post hole digger is a tool used to dig narrow holes to install posts, such as for fences and signs.
There are different kinds of post hole diggers. The pictured type is jabbed into the ground in the open position until the blades are buried. At...
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| x Pruning shears |
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| x Rake |
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Hand tool |
A rake (Old English raca, cognate with Dutch raak, German Rechen, from a root meaning "to scrape together," "heap up") is a broom for outside; an horticultural implement consisting of a toothed bar fixed transversely to a handle, and used to collect...
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| x Riddle | Hand tool |
A riddle is a large sieve used to separate soil or compost particles, or for separating soil from vegetables.
English "riddle" is from Middle English ridelle "coarse sieve," from late Old English hriddel "sieve," altered by dissimilation from Old...
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| x Rotary tiller |
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| x Sally Saw | Power tool |
A sally saw is a portable mechanical, motorized saw. It was used before the chainsaw was invented, as was obsoleted by the chainsaw.
It was used in activities such as limbing, and bucking.
A sally saw consists of a several parts.
The sally saw was...
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| x Scythe |
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A scythe ( /ˈsaɪð/) is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass, or reaping crops. It was largely replaced by horse-drawn and then tractor machinery, but is still used in some areas of Europe and Asia. The Grim Reaper and Death are often depicted...
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| x Shovel |
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| x Spade |
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Hand tool |
A spade is a tool designed primarily for the purpose of digging or removing earth. Early spades were made of riven wood. After the art of metalworking was discovered, spades were made with sharper tips of metal. Before the advent of metal spades...
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| x Trowel |
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Hand tool |
A trowel is one of several similar hand tools used for digging, smoothing, or otherwise moving around small amounts of viscous or particulate material.
In gardening, a trowel is a tool with a pointed, scoop-shaped metal blade and a handle. It is...
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| x Watering can |
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| x Weeder |
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Hand tool |
A number of common weeding tools are designed to ease the task of removing weeds from gardens and lawns.
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| x Wheelbarrow |
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A wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled vehicle, usually with just one wheel, designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles to the rear, or by a sail to push the ancient wheelbarrow by wind. The term "wheelbarrow" is made of...
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| x Woodchipper |
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| x Billhook |
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Hand tool |
The billhook (also bill hook – although this more usually refers to either a metal or plastic hook used to hold bills, common in the US, or a part of the knotting mechanism on a reaper binder) is a traditional cutting tool known and used throughout...
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| x Axe |
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The axe, or ax, is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood; to harvest timber; as a weapon; and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. The axe has many forms and specialized uses but generally consists of an axe head...
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| x Pickaxe |
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| x Slasher | Hand tool |
A slasher is an implement with a long sharp blade used to clear scrub. Its long handle, and the open face of its blade, lends it to use for clearing thin and dense low-lying bush where an axe would be too clumsy.
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| x Bow saw |
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Hand tool |
A modern bow saw is a metal-framed saw in the shape of a bow with a coarse wide blade. This type of saw is also known as a swede saw or a buck saw. It is a rough tool that can be used for cross-cutting branches (maybe up to 6 inches in diameter)...
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