Reaping
Hook information
John Riley Reaping Hook (533mm)
with Hardwood Handle
Cranked Reaping Hook (584mm)with
Hardwood Handle
These reaping hooks are made in
a traditional English Agricultural hand tool style
from hardened and tempered steel in Sheffield,
England
reaping hook
similar to a sickle, reaping hook, reap hook
A hooked blade used to cut crops.
All the blade is to one side of the handle rather
than being on both sides as in a sickle.
Reaping Hooks are an edge tool for cutting grass
or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle
more
on grain harvesting
- further
definitions
With the sickle or reaping hook
one man could cut from one-half to one acre in
a hard day's work. The cut grain was later bound
by hand.
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