Simple Farm tools and their uses...

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27 September 2022 


Wheelbarrow
- Are used for an variety of things, such as moving a rock, mulch or compost to the garden, moving trees or larger scrubs from spot to another, hauling brick, disposing or garden debris or even for mixing concrete or fertilizers.

Watering can
-Is a container with a long spout which is used to water plants.

Rake
-Is a type of gardening or landscaping tool with handle that ends in a head. You can use a rake for scooping, scraping, gathering, or leveling materials, such as soil, mulch, or leaves. Some rakes have flat heads; others have sharps metal tines that can break up compacted soil or rocks. 

Digging shovel
-Is  a tool used to dig as well as to move loose granular materials(like dirt, gravel, grain or snow) from one spot to another.

Spade
- Is a tool used for digging straight-edged holes or trenches, slicing and lifting sod, and edging flower beds or lawns.

Crocodile steel hoe head
-Is ideal for heavy cultivation, verge control, edging and banking work.

Sickle
- Is used for harvesting cereal crops or cutting grass or hay.

Pick mattock
-Is a tool used for digging, prying and chopping.

Panga
-Is a tool used for cutting, heavy jungle growth, sugarcane machete and many more.

Head pan
- Is a commonly used tool in construction industry to transport material or building construction materials especially sand, cement, aggregate, soil, concrete and mortar.

Slasher
- Is a tool used to clear scrubs.
 
Iron fork hoe
- Is a tool used to loosen the soil, prior to planting or sowing.

Hammers
- Is a tool used for general carpentry, framing, nail lulling, cabinet making, upholstering, riveting, bending or shaping metal, striking masonry drill and steel chisels.

Spade fork
-Is a tool used to loosen soil all around a perennial, so it lifts gently and intact, ready to carry elsewhere to replant ir plot

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