Question

Define Tiphan, Pickaxe, Spade, Scythe?

Answer 1

Hint: These are the most widely used agricultural tools or machinery for ploughing, planting, harvesting crops and many other farming activities.

Complete answer:
> A tiphan is a type of three-bladed seed drill used to seed by cutting a furrow, placing the seed, and covering it to a desired depth.
   - To ensure that the seeds are protected by soil, the seed drill sows the seeds at the appropriate seeding rate and depth. This saves them from eating birds and animals, or from drying up due to exposure to the sun.
   - With seed drilling machines, seeds are spread in rows, and the consumer cannot change the distance between seeds along the row as in the case of vacuum precision planting machines.

> A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a hand tool that is usually T-shaped and used to pry. Its head is usually metal, attached perpendicularly to a longer handle, often made of wood, often metal and increasingly fiberglass.
   - A traditional pickax, similar to a "pick mattock," has a pointed end on one side of its head and a long flat "knife" blade opposite. Characteristic of a progressive curve extends the length of the ear.

> A spade is mainly a tool for digging, consisting of a blade usually stunted and less curved than that of a long handle, a shovel.
   - Early spades (often shoulder blades) were made from riven wood or animal bones. After the invention of the art of metalworking, spades were made with sharper metal tips.

> A scythe is an agricultural hand-held instrument to mow grass or harvest crops. It was largely replaced by horse-drawn machinery and then tractor machinery but is still in use in parts of Europe and Asia.
   - Traditionally the use of a scythe is called mowing, and now it is also distinguished from machine mowing by scything.

Additional information:
- Usually in tiphan, the distance between rows is set by the fabricator that allows plants to get enough sunlight, nutrients and soil water. Before the seed drill was introduced, most seeds were planted by hand transmitting, an imprecise and inefficient operation with poor seed distribution and low productivity. Using a seed drill can raise the crop production ratio (seed harvested per seed planted) by as much as nine times. Using seed drills saves both time and energy.

- In pickaxe, the next most common setup features two spikes, one of which is significantly longer than the other. The pointed end is used for breaking and prying, the axis for hoeing, skimming, and root-cutting. Produced in prehistoric times as farming tools, picks have developed into other instruments such as plough and mattock. They were also used in general building and mining, and were adapted to warfare.

- In spade, manual labor was less effective at moving earth until the invention of metal spades, requiring picks to break up the soil as well as a spade to push the dirt. In most cases, a spade with a metal tip will split and push the ground, improving efficiency.

- In scythe, With the arms straight, the blade parallel and very close to the deck, and the uncut grass to the right, the mower keeps the top handle in the left hand and the bottom one in the back. The body is then turned to the right, the blade catches the grass and is slowly rotated to the left in a long arc that ends in front of the mower and puts the cut grass neatly to the left.

Note: Tiphan and Pickaxe are farming tools to sow and cover seed in the soil and pick-axe is to dig and chop. A Spade is mainly a tool for soil fixation and removal and Scythe is a hand tool for lawn mowing or crop harvesting, respectively.