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WELL DIGGING [2 records]

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Record 1 2012-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Construction Tools
  • Fire-Fighting and Rescue Equipment
CONT

The hammerheaded pick is a very old tool that came into the fire service via the railroad. The tool is very simple : a striking or hammerhead surface on one side of the tool head and a pick on the other side. The pick is wide at the head and tapers to a point at the end … The primary use for it in the fire service is as a digging tool. The striking surface as well as the pick can be used for digging earth, as in trench rescues, or for dismantling concrete or block in masonry accidents, such as collapses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outils (Construction)
  • Matériel de secours et de lutte (incendies)

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tillage Operations (Agriculture)
  • Farming Techniques
DEF

A laborious system of bringing subsoil to the surface in gardens, in which two 0.6 m (2 ft) ditches are dug.

CONT

Double digging. a) Take out a trench and wheel soil to the other end of the plot. b) Get down into this trench and break up the soil really well with a fork. Then add any FYM [farm yard mamure] or compost on top of this broken up soil. c) Now dig out the second trench, throwing the soil well forward onto the manure in the first.

CONT

Although it may seem a complicated process, in fact double digging is straightforward. You just need to imagine that you have two layers. The top is dug with a spade and the bottom with a fork so you can incorporate some organic matter.

OBS

Another name for (double-dig) is "bastard trenching" ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travaux du sol (Agriculture)
  • Techniques agricoles
DEF

Type de bêchage sur grandes surfaces qui consiste à ouvrir des tranchées de 2 fers de profondeur et à retourner le sol de chaque tranchée dans la précédente sans mélanger le sol des deux couches.

CONT

Avant de planter des petites fleurs fragiles ou des arbustes aux racines très ramifiées, pratiquez le double bêchage. Creusez une première tranchée; entassez la terre d'un côté. À la fourche, brisez les mottes et incorporez de l'humus. Bêchez une seconde tranchée; rejetez la terre dans la première; puis comblez la deuxième avec la terre de la première.

Key term(s)
  • double-dig
  • double-digging

Spanish

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