Out Around the Barn

 Farm and garden accessories are the same in general but, can be completely different.  Take, for instance, the shovel; it can be used to dig in the garden to prepare to plant your vegetables and your flowers.  It can also be used to dig up those very same plants come harvest time.  Now, look at it in the Farmer’s eye; he may use it to dig a post hole, if not too large, or maybe to dig a trench to drain water or depending on the type of job, there is different kinds of shovels. Let’s see, there are scoop shovels, rounded shovels, spade shovels, square shovels (long and short) and many others.

What about the pitchfork?  I use one in my compost pile for my garden and I harvest my sweet potatoes and red and white potatoes using a pitchfork.  I also use one to scatter mulch around my garden and flower beds.  Then out around the barn we use one to clean stalls, scatter and move straw and bedding for the animals and a few other things.

Then we have our wagons.  I have a small one for my garden and we have large ones for moving hay from the fields, loading and moving dirt and rock and many other uses.

Just like tractors, we have the large and larger versions, (John Deere, of course), and they are used for many tasks, moving, hauling, pulling, loading and etc.

Last of all, there are many other farm and garden accessories that have dual uses around the farm like; hammers and nails, saws, screwdrivers, tape measures, pliers, wrenches and well you understand.  There are just so many accessories that are used on a farm.

This picture taken from IIRR (International Institute of Rural
Reconstruction Manual,)  1998.