Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Starting this week, Costco is selling Fiskars-brand gardening tools for a steal. They include a 15-inch lopper and garden shear set, which is currently $5 off for a total of $19.99 per set.
Fiskars Corporation (natively Fiskars Oyj Abp; formerly Fiskars Oy Ab until 1998) [3] is a Finnish consumer goods company founded in 1649 in Fiskars, a locality now in the town of Raseborg, Finland, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Helsinki. It is one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the world.
Professional pruning shears often have replaceable blades. There are three different blade designs for pruning shears: anvil, bypass and parrot-beak. Anvil pruners have only one blade, which closes onto a flat surface; unlike bypass blades it can be sharpened from both sides and remains reliable when slightly blunt. Anvil pruners are useful for ...
A non-military use as a weapon was a "pruning bill", described as the weapon used in the Pierre Rivière parricide case of 1835. [citation needed] The Finnish military engineer NCOs have a billhook as the part of their personal gear instead of an entrenching tool. It also doubles as a sidearm. Officers have a field axe. [citation needed]
Vine training systems utilize the practice of trellising and pruning in order to dictate and control a grape vine's canopy which will influence the potential yield of that year's crop as well as the quality of the grapes due to the access of air and sunlight needed for the grapes to ripen fully and for preventing various grape diseases. [5]
The main reason for the development of the MICH was due to the protective but heavy PASGT being supplanted by these bump helmets by special forces operators due to them being lighter, more comfortable, closer-fitting, and made of plastic making them easier to mount accessories onto, especially night vision devices and communications headsets. [5]
Morrill-style saw set. A saw set is a tool or part of the tool kit for tuning saw blades. It adjusts the set, or distance the saw tooth is bent away from the saw blade.The magnitude of set determines the cut width and prevents the blade of the saw from binding in the wood.
Mikado pick-up sticks. Pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick, jackstraws, jack straws, spillikins, spellicans, or fiddlesticks is a game of physical and mental skill in which a bundle of sticks, between 8 and 20 centimeters long, is dropped as a loose bunch onto a table top into a random pile.