Gardening tools

thumb|Double- and single-bit felling axesFile:An axe labelled-2edit.svg|thumb|upright|A diagram showing the main points on an axe An axe (; sometimes spelled ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for thousands of years to shape, split, and cut wood, to harvest timber, and as a weapon. The axe has many forms and specialised uses but generally consists of a head with a sharpened blade (also called a "bit") attached to a handle (also called "haft" or "helve").

agricultural tool used for tilling and harvesting the soil, consisting of a wooden handle and a flat, sharp iron blade set crosswise at one end

thumb|upright|A typical shovel

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agricultural tool used for moving soil or other material

thumb|upright=1.35|A common wheelbarrow

upright=1.35|thumb|Pitching hay

valve controlling the release of a liquid or gas from a pipe

thumb|A chainsaw cutting a small wooden board

thumb|Ceremony hammer of a miner VEB Kombinat Senftenberg (GDR) - with honorary uniform

portable container used to water plants by hand

thumb|Machete/saw combo thumb|Mexican artisan Agustín Cruz Tinoco using a machete to carve wood thumb|Mexican machete, from Guerrero, 1970. bull horn handle, hand forged blade (hammer marks visible) thumb|Campos Hermanos Mexican machete with blade 75 centimeters long and 93 total.

thumb|upright|Small spade for clay soil; the other one for sandy soil and loamy soil A spade () is a tool primarily for digging, consisting of a long handle and blade, typically with the blade narrower and flatter than the common shovel.

machine that uses one or more revolving blades to cut a lawn to an even height.

device for irrigating lawns and crops

thumb|F210 Honda tiller thumb|1949 Farmall C with C-254-A two-row cultivator thumb|A tractor-mounted tiller thumb|Tines close-up thumb|A cultivator pulled by a tractor in Canada in 1943 A cultivator (also known as a rotavator) is a piece of agricultural equipment 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 of the name also refers to machines that use the rotary motion of disks or teeth to accomplish a similar result, such as a rotary tiller.

thumb|Modern billhook with saw blade, used in bushcraft activities thumb|Traditional Devon pattern billhook made by W. Gilpin in 1918; original handle has been replaced. 12-inch/30 cm ruler shown for reference. A billhook or bill hook is a versatile cutting tool used widely in agriculture and forestry for cutting woody material such as shrubs, small trees and branches. It is distinct from the sickle. It was commonly used in Europe with an important variety of traditional local patterns. Elsewhere, it was also developed locally such as in the Indian subcontinent, or introduced regiona

type of scissors for use with plants

thumb|right|A historical kunai thumb|A highly stylized plastic kunai, as often portrayed in popular culture A is a Japanese multipurpose tool and weapon thought to be originally derived from the masonry trowel.

garden tool for trimming grass or groundcover with a flexible line instead of a blade

tool that is used to move leaves

upright=1.2|thumb|Masonry trowel A trowel is a small hand tool used for digging, applying, smoothing, or moving small amounts of viscous or particulate material. Common varieties include the masonry trowel, garden trowel, and float trowel.

drilling device or bit

thumb|upright=1.35|Modern gas blowtorch thumb|upright|An old-fashioned kerosene/paraffin blowtorch A blowtorch, also referred to as a blowlamp, is an ambient air fuel-burning tool used for applying flame and heat to various applications, usually in metalworking, but occasionally for foods like crème brûlée.

simple light plough without a mouldboard

item that is used to maintain gardens and yards

thumb|link=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodchipper.webm|Woodchipper (click for video)

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thumb|right|A straight dibber

garden tool

thumb|Bypass loppers with double curved blades

garden tool with tines

primitive wooden implement used primarily by subsistence-based cultures to dig out underground food

thumb|right|Great Russian sokha, illustration by Nikolay Karazin, 1899 thumb|Sokha dating to the 19th to mid-20th century

powered garden tool

A mattock () is a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to the pickaxe, it has a long handle and a stout head which combines either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze (cutter mattock), or a pick and an adze (pick mattock). A cutter mattock is similar to a Pulaski used in fighting fires. It is also commonly known in North America as a "grub axe".

type of hose typically used in a garden

hand tool for harvesting berries

thumb|The head of a weeder A number of common weeding tools are designed to ease the task of removing weeds from gardens and lawns.

thumb|Tow tine dethatchers can be attached to garden tractors

garden tool designed to create holes in the soil in order to help lawn grasses grow

A khurpa (alternatively called a khurpi) is a short-handled cutting tool similar to a Trowel with a flat blade used for digging soil and weeding in small gardens or vegetable farms. It is commonly used in small farms, ridges, or rows of vegetables to hoewing or earth up the weeds. It is traditionally used while in a squatting posture. The work khurpa is a word in the Punjabi language.

agricultural tool

large sieve

An edge trimmer or lawn edger is a garden tool, either manual or motorised, to form distinct boundaries between a lawn, typically consisting of a grass, or other soft botanical ground cover, and another ground surface feature such as a paved, concreted or asphalted area, or a granular material such as sand or gravel, or simply uncovered soil, for example an unbounded garden.

thumb|upright=2|Grafter, German engraving of 1855 (Pomologische Monatshefte) A grafter, or grafting knife, is a garden tool used for grafting fruit trees. The grafter is usually in the form of a small knife made of thin metal. The blade of a grafting knife is beveled, or curved, on one side and flat on the other so that the knife can cut easily through wood with a flat cut that provides the most contact possible in the finished graft. Grafting knives should be sharpened after every use.

thumb|A broadfork thumb|A broadfork being levered

Japanese multi-purpose knife

device for digging holes on the ground