Kazma Kürek

[Construction Section 183]

Ordinary hoes are hand tools for soil cultivation. They are particularly suitable for loosening and solving soil or similar materials. The hoe consists of a transversely handle striked surface, the so-called sheet. Their stem length is generally about 1 meter. The form shall hoes, her grip on the stick and covered by the getting thickening of the stem attached. The size and shape of the leaf-heel depends on the purpose, particularly the gravity and the stoniness of the floor. In agriculture, the rake or hoe. With the hoe soil is not like the spade or plow turned, but he retains his old stratification.

Types and Use

To solve a heavy, clay, loamy soil is a little minced form. For something casual (or sandy) soil, or even for mixing concrete, mortar and similar materials used more of a large and broad sheet (pulling hoes etc).
The pickaxe or pick ax, with a peak instead of the leaf, is a kind of pimples. The flat pickaxe at the top in a shallow cutting ends, is a hybrid of these.
The erth hoe with 2 (rare even 3) perpendicular curled, sturdy tines. It has been for thousands of years to soil loosening and the harvesting of crops used and is the symbol of farmers.

Picks are hacking with two leaves and have two types:

1st The flat cross hoe, as pickaxe called: One sheet is formed and pointed something similar to the pimple. It is as in civil engineering to solve stony ground.
2nd When grass hoes is one of the leaves along striked, similar to an ax. It will, inter alia, in heavily grounds, that having roots.

Today, the hoe is used only at the small gardening. Otherwise, it is mostly using in the developing world. In western countries, the hoe substituted by the plow, occasionally by milling or mostly by motor hoe.
Similar tools are wood processing hoes. Basically, the two pointed stone processing similar. Special hacking for example, when the stone extraction and other workings.