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A sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for harvesting grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiey for feeding livestock (either freshly cut or dried as hay). The diversity of sickles that have been used around the globe is staggering. A sprayeris a device used to spray a liquid. In agriculture, a sprayer is a piece of equipment that is used to apply herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers on agricultural crops. Sprayers range in size from man-portable units (typically backpacks ith spray guns! to trailed sprayers that are connected to a tractor, to self-propelled units similar to tractors, ith boom mounts of "#$%&% feet in length. A mattock ' m t)k' is a versatile hand tool, u for digging and chopping, similar to the pick has a long handle, and a stout head, hich co an a*e blade and an adze ( cutter mattock ! or a pick and an adze ( pick mattock !. A light hoe is a light eight version of a re garden hoe, hich is a tool ith a thin blade across the end of a long handle for eeding a loosening soil.

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A sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for harvesting grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock (either freshly cut or dried as hay). The diversity of sickles that have been used around the globe is staggering.

A sprayer is a device used to spray a liquid.In agriculture, a sprayer is a piece of equipment that is used to apply herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers on agricultural crops. Sprayers range in size from man-portable units (typically backpacks with spray guns) to trailed sprayers that are connected to a tractor, to self-propelled units similar to tractors, with boom mounts of 60151 feet in length.

A mattock /mtk/ is a versatile hand tool, used for digging and chopping, similar to the pickaxe. It has a long handle, and a stout head, which combines an axe blade and an adze (cutter mattock) or a pick and an adze (pick mattock).

A light hoe is a light weight version of a regular garden hoe, which is a tool with a thin blade set across the end of a long handle for weeding and loosening soil.