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2. Hughes Tool Company - Wikipedia

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   Today, the site of the building is on the campus of University of Houston–Downtown. A February 1914 advertisement for the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company in Fuel Oil Journal. Hughes Tool Company was an American manufacturer of drill bits. Founded in 1908, [1] it was merged into Baker Hughes Incorporated in 1987.

3. List of timber framing tools - Wikipedia

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   Tools include dividers, axes, chisel and mallet, beam cart, pit saw, trestles, and bisaigue . The men talking may be holding a story pole and rule (or walking cane). Shear legs are hoisting a timber. Below, the sticks on the log are winding sticks used to align the ends of a timber. Tools used in traditional timber framing date back thousands ...

4. Machine tool - Wikipedia

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   Machine tool. A machine tool is a machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformations. Machine tools employ some sort of tool that does the cutting or shaping. All machine tools have some means of constraining the workpiece and provide a guided movement ...

5. Entrenching tool - Wikipedia

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   An entrenching tool (UK), [1] [2] intrenching tool (US), [3] [4] [5] E-tool, or trenching tool is a digging tool used by military forces for a variety of military purposes. Survivalists, campers, hikers, and other outdoors groups have found it to be indispensable in field use. Modern entrenching tools are usually collapsible and made using ...

6. McLeod (tool) - Wikipedia

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   A McLeod tool (or rakehoe) is a two-sided blade — one a rake with coarse tines, one a flat sharpened hoe — on a long, wooden handle. It is a standard [1] tool during wildfire suppression and trail restoration. [2] The combination tool was created in 1905 by Malcolm McLeod, a United States Forest Service ranger at the Sierra National Forest.

7. Mattock - Wikipedia

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   A mattock ( / ˈmætək /) 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.

8. Shovel - Wikipedia

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   Shovel. A shovel is a tool used for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore. [1] Most shovels are hand tools consisting of a broad blade fixed to a medium-length handle. Shovel blades are usually made of sheet steel or hard plastics and are very strong. Shovel handles are usually made of wood ...

9. Antique tool - Wikipedia

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   Antique tool. Although an antique tool might be said to be one that is more than a hundred years old, the term is often used to describe any old tool of quality that might be deemed collectable. The use of tools is one of the primary means by which humans are distinguished from other animals. Tools are the parents of all other antiques.