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The first hand tool that rescued a person many thousands of years ago was a shovel. In the process of evolution, it was transformed and acquired a modern form, now there are about 12 thousand varieties of the instrument. In the article we will consider the most popular types of shovels among gardeners and gardeners, talk about their device and applications.
Purpose of the tool
A shovel is a device that allows you to perform certain types of work in various areas of life. With this tool, you can quickly and easily dig, clear and transfer earth and other materials. In our century of development of modern technologies, builders, janitors, firefighters, military men, metallurgists and people of other professions still cannot do without a shovel.
With the help of a bayonet tool, you can perform a number of digging and agricultural work, a sapper shovel is included in the shooter’s equipment and is used as a cold weapon, a large sapper is an important part of the army vehicle kit, a snow plow is used to clean the roadway and a pedestrian sidewalk, a garden one will help to carry out work on own personal plot, loading is used at vegetable warehouses on a par with solid wood, a garbage scoop is designed for garbage collection, bread will help to plant and remove products from the oven.
The gardener will need several types of tools. If you plan to work with soft ground, a steel shovel with a birch or plastic handle will do. It is lightweight and makes digging a pleasure. For soil with dense turf, it is rational to use a universal bayonet garden shovel with a titanium blade. The earth will not stick to it, and subject to regular sharpening, the product will last for many years. For tough stone soil, it is better to buy a shovel made of durable steel with powerful teeth and a handle made of multilayer plastic. It will withstand any load when digging with honor.
What types are
Shovels and blades in ancient times were made from aspen, linden and birch, less often from maple and oak. Backyard (dirty, black), stove or bakery, grain, winnowing and other devices that had different shapes from modern tools were popular then. Consider the main types of shovels designed to perform certain types of work in the garden, vegetable garden and other areas of human activity. Experts divided the types of shovels into two large groups – gardening, construction and handling.
Indispensable assistants for gardeners and gardeners are digging, digging and universal tools. In construction, digging pointed, digging rectangular, picking, picking faceted and mortar are used. Loading and unloading operations require scoop sand, scoop grain, coal, metallurgical, rock, mining, snow removal tools.
And now a brief overview of the shovels used by people of different specialties and migrated to the horticultural sector. The bayonet has a flat pointed shape, on top it has bent overhangs, which are sometimes made in the form of a metal crossbar. Small infantry or Linnemann shovel, also known as a sapper – a short handle has a round thickening at the end, the sleeve is fitted to the handle with a crimp ring. Modern designs are folding, can have a transverse stop, a saw, a folding pick, or become a hoe. A large sapper is smaller and lighter than a bayonet.
It has a rectangular tray with rounded ends. It is an indispensable element of army transport equipment. Snow removal equipment is a type of shovel. A wide tray is made of aluminum, plastic or plywood. The garden one is smaller than the bayonet one. She has a rectangular, slightly bent forward, tray, and the handle has a transverse handle. For loading and unloading potatoes, a tool resembling a pitchfork is used, at the end equipped with a partition with rollers. The derivatives of the shovel are a garbage scoop with a handle located across the plane, and a bread shovel made of wood.
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Устройство
A shovel of any type consists of three parts – a blade, a shell and a handle. The canvas is called the lower part of the tool, it is also the working surface. Able to act on moving materials and objects – earth, crushed stone, sand and others. The step is called the top of the canvas, it is bent at a right angle. If it is necessary to dig into hard packed soil, when plunging the shovel into it, the step makes the task easier, since it can be pressed with the foot. There is a tuleyka between the canvas and the handle.
It serves to fasten the main components of the tool. This link is rigidly attached to the web and prevents the handle from breaking off from the base of the web. Tuleykas are produced in one piece – made from a whole blank, or overhead – a separate part that is attached to the canvas, most often with rivets. The handle is a handle that allows you to hold on to the shovel and direct it in the right direction. As in the past, the cuttings are made from deciduous trees – maple, aspen, birch, ash, there are also modern plastic options on sale.
Experts advise purchasing a device that, for ease of use, is equipped with a ball head or a forked, T-handle in the upper part.
Scope of use
We have already figured out that different types of tools are used when loading or unloading materials, when building and repairing various objects, and for gardening. The main functions of the favorite device remain earthworks – the need to dig trenches and recesses, dig and move the earth, dig up the crop.
For example, a gardener and gardener will need a good quality garden. What should she be? You need a sharp, durable and handy gardening variety of tools. There are titanium, stainless steel, classic iron and other options on the market. Iron quickly dulls, it is inconvenient to dig with it. Titanium shovel is light and slightly corroded. She came to the field of gardening equipment from space and military equipment. A zealous owner should have several types of garden shovel in his arsenal – digging bayonet rectangular and acute-angled, scoop for bulk materials, snow, having one or two sizes.
If it is inconvenient and difficult to dig the ground with a shovel, then it is difficult to transfer peat into a bucket with a bayonet, so a certain type of equipment is preferable for each type of work. For children and women, lightweight options with a handle of a suitable length for growth are suitable. In the trunk of a vehicle, you should also have a shovel that can help out in any life situation.
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