There are many agricultural tools, large agricultural tools are only collectively owned, and small agricultural tools are not available in every household, but when it comes to shovels, no one can leave any farmer, and every household has a set of shovels for various purposes.
Shovel, generally composed of two parts, head and handle, the shovel head is iron, and the handle is mostly wood. According to its specific use, there are roughly three specifications of large, medium and small, and there are different names.
The largest is called a spade, also known as a digging spade, the mouth of the spade is about ten centimeters wide, the head of the spade is thirty or forty centimeters high, when digging the soil, both sides are cut, and the back of a shovel goes down, it is a whole piece of soil that is more than ten centimeters square, thirty or forty centimeters high, a spade of soil is about fifty pounds up and down, grabbing the handle of the spade and carrying it, without one or two hundred pounds of strength in the hand, it is impossible to dig up and put it in the dustpan. When the river workers picked the river, they used this kind of digging spade, with two pieces of soil on one side, each load of more than 200 catties. The further down you dig, the greater the humidity of the earth, the weight is constantly growing, when digging to the bottom of the ditch, each load is close to three hundred catties, and you have to climb dozens of meters from the bottom of the ditch to come to the flat ground, that hard work has not experienced it personally can not be experienced. Digging under the spade requires a lot of strength, and in order to help, the spade head of the digging spade has a stepping foot on the back. Shovels are generally used to dig ditches in rivers and build water conservancy, and are only used when the production team digs channels and digs deep mounds, because the spade mouth is large and the soil is heavy, and most of them are used by male strong laborers.
The medium-sized shovel is mainly used to shovel mud, shovel weeds, and remove small pieces of mud in trenches. The spade mouth is crescent-shaped, the shovel head is twenty centimeters high and down, the spade body is thinner and sharper than the digging spade, in order to facilitate bending or upright operation, the spade handle is one meter seven or eight, which is also much longer than the digging spade, and the top of the handle does not even have a handle that is even easy to pry. Because the shovel head is not large, it is easy to operate in channels and ditches, and many villagers also use it to dig yellow eels (commonly known as "long fish") on the edge of the field, and over time, the old farmers in the village also called this shovel "long fish spade". This shovel is suitable for women and the elderly, but is used less by strong labor. Digging spades may not be available in every household, but long spades are almost a must-have for every household.
The smallest shovel, even the head belt handle is only a ruler handle, the shovel head is not more than the size of a palm, the people are simply called "small spade", a small spade on the ground, like a cat and mouse crawling on the ground, people in the inside also vividly called "climbing spade". The climbing spade is light and small, easy to carry, usually weeding and planting seedlings, digging onions and garlic, and more refined operations, are inseparable from it. The climbing spade is also our usual weapon for picking hogweed, and when even the seedlings and roots are needed, the climbing spade is the best helper. When I was a child, I played a game with the nature of gambling, that is, I inserted the crawling spade upright in front of me, hit it with a hook knife, hit and made the person who fell to the ground, and won the bet under the crawling spade - a hogweed.
With the improvement of mechanization, shovels have gradually faded out of the ranks of farm tools, in addition to climbing spades and occasional use, large spades and long fish spades have not been seen for many years. But when it comes to spades, we still feel very close, after all, these are our partners who got along with us day and night, and made great contributions to agricultural production. The Beitong Yang River, which we often visited, was dug by our fathers with spades and spades. It's just that the generation that used to the spade is basically old now, and the youngest is also over the age of antiquity. #Miaobi Shenghua Creation Challenge##Toutiao Creation Challenge##I'm Engaged in Headline Creation##Sannong#