A coloured photograph showing a lady using a sickle to harvest lavender.tools, farm implement, lavender

During early farming in Australia (before motorised whipper snippers) the hand held sickle was used to cut long grass, in this case in or around railway tracks. The inside of the blade's curve was sharp, so that the user can either draw or swing it against the base of the grass, catching the stems in the curve and slicing them at the same time. Historic - Railway Permanent Way and Works - track equipment - Grass SlasherWrought iron sickle with extended with wooden handle.puffing billy, extended sickle, farm tool, reaping hook, curved blade, grass cutting

A hand sickle is typically used for harvesting grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock (either freshly cut or dried as hay). this one was used for cutting back bracken fern.Sickles were not used as often on farms after the mechanisation of harvesting. They were still used for cutting awkward shaped small plots, for opening a path for the tractors and for clearing bracken. This item is an example of a tool used by the early settlers of the Orbost district.A wooden handled sickle used for fern cutting. It has a steel curved blade.Stamped on blade - RY4 MADE IN ENGLANDtool farming-implement sickle

Type of sickle used by Mr. Slater at his property 'Mitcham Grove' North Blackburn. A lavender farm.Large curved sharpened steel blade with a wooden handle.Austriarural industry, agriculture

Metal sickle knife Guard bar for an old horse drawn mower Historic - Farming Equipment - sickle knife Guard bar Metal - wrought iron sickle knife Guard bar for an old horse drawn mower puffing billy, sickle knife guard bar

Feed for sheep farming is crucially important. Whether growing a sheep for breeding, wool or meat, it is vital to ensure that all sheep at whatever stage of life are maintaining or growing in weight. Sheep are often pictured grazing in paddocks; however, the grass available in a paddock is often not enough to maintain a sheep’s weight. In addition, if a sheep eats grass too low in a paddock then corrosion can affect the soil preventing any grass from growing in this location. For these reasons, supplementary feed is introduced to sheep’s diets. In most occasions’ food high in protein such as Lupins is sought. In times such as drought or to makeup a sheep’s roughage; feed such as silage, hay and straw may be required in the feeding of sheep. This is where the sickle is introduced to sheep farming. Although modern-day machines are used to harvest cereals, in times past the sickle was used for harvesting these crops. Once harvested, these crops can be fed to sheep freshly cut or dried. This sickle has been on display for 30 years at the National Wool Museum. It was at the entrance to Gallery One in the “A New Europe” wood hut display case. It was taken off display in 2021 with the “On the Land” redevelopment of this gallery space.Curved Metal serrated blade extending from carved dark wooden handletools of the trade, sheep feed, sheep farming

Thomas Stoddart, 1828 - 1905, bought 12 white marble statues during a visit to Italy. Stoddart arranged for them to be shipped to Victoria and placed on pedestals of Sicilian marble and on bases of Victorian granite. These statues were unveiled in the gardens on Queen Victoria's birthday, 24th May, 1884. His intention was for the statues to adorn and add interest to the gardens. Summer is portrayed with the handle of a sickle and holding a sheaf of grain, symbolising harvest time.The artwork is of historic and aesthetic significance to the people of BallaratWhite marble figure shown with handle of sickle and holding a sheaf of grain, symbolising harvest time.Summersummer, stoddart

The sickle was used to cut crops and grass and vegetable matter. It has been in use for a very long time but has probably been superceded by electric tools in developed countries.This sickle was used by a resident of the Kiewa Valley.A curved steel edged blade fixed to a short wooden handle. It is used for harvesting the crops, grass and cutting other vegetative matters. The previous KVHS committee referred to it as a '"Hand Craft Cutter".sickle, farm tool, garden tool

Found around Schwerkolt Cottage by donor.Large sharpened curved metal blade. Handle missing .815rural industry, agriculture

Long curved sharpened steel blade with a wooden handle.4rural industry, agriculture

Curved steel blade with serrated edges finishing in a fine tip. Wooden handle. Used for cutting grass and hay.Makers Mark|4rural industry, agriculture

Used to transport fertilizer but probably had other uses on the farm or at the mill.Two large hessian bags with string and straw inside; with inscription.On front of one bag with sickle image within a diamond shape." 22 / HIGH GRADE SUPER / COMMONWEALTH / FERTILISERS" On front of other bag with sickle picture."FLORIDA / SUPER /SICKLE / BRAND / CUMING. SMITH & Co"

Hand held steel Sickle with wooden handlestawell

This model was part of a panorama of 11 pieces designed from drawings in an 1892 almanac printed by the Port Fairy Gazette. The panorama was used in the Historical rooms in Bank Street on an extended mantle piece before the museum and Archives were relocated to Gipps Street.This model was made as a part of an eleven piece panorama of the streetscape of Port Fairy in 1892. By a local resident.small hand made model of a shop front from the 1892 almanacTailoring Establishment John Sickler Gazette Officemodel, panorama, sackville street, mewkill, almanac, bank street

Sold on street corners in East Germany.Russian cap badge, Hammer and Sickle on Red Star.

Leather belt with a brass buckleBuckle embossed with STALIN Star; hammer and sickle. Also embossed is a W in a circle.

A curved steel long bladed hand sickle with a turned wooden handle which has a lined pattern on it.agricultural tools, sickles, tools, agricultural equipment

Cast iron grain sickle with hand-cranked wooden handle, stone grinder head, and 4 wheels, on a wooden base.International Harvestersickles, grinding tools

John Sickler Mayor of Port Fairy 1900John Sickler, town tailor and Mayor of Port FairyBlack and white photographnonetailor, john sickler, mayor, port fairy

Belt from WW2 Soviet Army soldier with star and sickle on buckle. Part of the collection of William (Bill) THOMASON. CAT NO. 4136P.Brown leather belt with square brass buckle with 5 pointed star on buckle representing USSR.soviet uniform, belt

Tailor's shop next door to the Port Fairy Gazette Office (local newspaper office) in Sackville Street owned by John Sickler and later W. georgeBlack and white photograph of shop front with arched windows on right hand side and a female and a young girl standing in the doorwaytailor shop, commercial enterprise, shop, store, sackville street

1. Scythe - Agricultural hand-tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops.Horse drawn machinery and tractors replaced the scythe. The scythe with the metal rod may have been fitted later, replacing a wooden rod. 2. Fern Hook - Used for slashing or reaping plants 3. Long handled sickle - A traditional single handed agricultural tool with a curved metal blade and handle. Used for harvesting. 4. Mattock - Heavy duty hand tool featuring a long handle and a stout dual-headed metal blade used in many ways eg. digging 5. Pitch Fork - An agricultural tool used to pitch loose material such as hay or leaves. 6. Pick Axe - A tool used to break and pry at the pointed end and the axe end for hoeing, skimming and chopping through roots.Douglas used these tools 70-80 years ago (1950s) mainly on his family's farm at Dandongadale near Buffalo River for harvesting as well as clearing land. Some may have been used on a family property at Whorouly as well and at the Dederang family properties from 1964. At Dederang the family had a tobacco farm and a dairy farm - (now 4 properties). Douglas Petzke had a soldier settlement farm in Dederang. Property was 'Woodside' about 1 km south east of the Dederang store. Douglad had 100 acres on each of the top and bottom sides. The bottom side was the dairy farm and the top side was beside House Creek. The farm totalled more than 200 acres. Douglas left Dederang c 2000 and now (2026) lives at Baranduda.1. Scythes x2 - Long wooden and one is metal curved rod with offset handles and a curved 600 mm long steel blade projecting from one end 2. Fern Hooks x2 - Wooden handle with curved steel blade attached at one end 3. Long-handled Sickles x2 - Both have wooden handles one of which is made from a branch of a 'tree' hence the curve. The blade is curved metal 4. Mattock - A long wooden handle with a dual-headed metal blade 5. Pitch Fork - A long wooden handle with three curved metal prongs attached at one end 6. Pick Axe - A wooden handle with a T-shaped metal attachment fixed perpendicularly to one end. The metal has a pointed end on one side of its head and a broad flat blade on the other side. Fern Hook - "116-319 1250 forge steel" Mattock - "783 4 1/2 (half) lbs" "oomatty". On the other side "LTD" and "AM"farm tools, deans family, douglas petzke, dederang

Scythes were used with a long sweeping movement which made them much less tiring for labourers to use than reaping hooks or sickles though they still involved great physical labour and considerable skill to perfect. Both hands were in use and the operator did not have to bend his back to reach down to the crop. Scythes were not used as often on farms after the mechanisation of harvesting. They were still used for cutting awkward shaped small plots and for opening a path for the tractors. This item is an example of a tool used by the early settlers of the Orbost district. A curved wooden scythe handle with two nailed grips attached with metal rings. There is no blade. There is a metal hook at the bottom.scythe agricultural tool farming

Scythes were used with a long sweeping movement which made them much less tiring for labourers to use than reaping hooks or sickles though they still involved great physical labour and considerable skill to perfect. Both hands were in use and the operator did not have to bend his back to reach down to the crop. Scythes were not used as often on farms after the mechanisation of harvesting. They were still used for cutting awkward shaped small plots and for opening a path for the tractors. This item is an example of a tool used by the early settlers of the Orbost district.A curved iron blade with one sharp edge. It is attached to a curved hollow handle with two extensions on one side where the scythe can be held by two hands.scythe agriculture tool

Printed promissory note No. 9087 to pay Commonwealth Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited the sum of £25/16/6. Dated 30th January 1931. W. Babidge and 7. Bridgewater. (K.L.G. Wylie) typed at the top of the note. On the left are two sheaves of grain, a circle with a sickle in the centre and a red printed suty stamp. Hand written at the bottom is 65 William Street Melbourne and W. Babidge Yarraberb Via Derby. Both have been crossed out in red.document, w. babidge collection - promissory note, commonwealth fertislers and chemicals limited

Scythes were used to manually mow wheat or grass. Scythes were used with a long sweeping movement which made them much less tiring for labourers to use than reaping hooks or sickles though they still involved great physical labour and considerable skill to perfect. Both hands were in use and the operator did not have to bend his back to reach down to the crop. On farms scythes were sharpened on a sandstone wheel mounted on an axle with a crank handle on one side. This was hand powered and used with water. Scythes were not used as often on farms after the mechanisation of harvesting. They were still used for cutting awkward shaped small plots and for opening a path for the tractors. This item is an example of a tool used by the early settlers of the Orbost district. An iron scythe blade, curved and tapered. There is no handle and the blade is rusted and pitted."ROSE"scythe tool agriculture rural

Item in the collection of George Wheeler Life Member Bendigo RSL, refer Cat No 8263 for his RSL and Service history. The association between Wheeler and Dunstan is at this point unknown. Re Dunstan No 2162 and the Matchbox holder. John Sickler Dunstan enlisted on 23.7.1915 in the 4th reinforcements 21st Bn, embark for Eygpt 27.9.1915, embark for France 26.3.1916. For a period he acted as escort for General Birdwood from 7.4.1916, transfer to 1st ANZAC HQ, hospital with Gastritis 13.1.1917, attached to 3 Sqd RFC 8.3.1917, rejoin unit 13.5.1917, promoted to Sgt 23.6.1917, detached for duty with 4th Field Survey Coy RE 1.3.1918, rejoin unit 16.3.1918. Married in England 12.7.1919, embark for Australia 12.5.1920, discharged from the AIF 11.8.1920. He was awarded a Croix De Guerre on 14.7.1919. At a point in his records when with 1st ANZAC HQ he was in the Topographical Section. Trench Art, Matchbox Holder, brass engraved on three sides.Side i, " 2162 - Pte. J. S. Dunstan - 1 ANZAC CORPS" Side 2, "Engraved image of the Rising Sun badge". Side 3, Somme 1916/17"smirsl, trench art, brsl, match box, gwheeler

WARM was a community textile art project that saw over 250 knitters come together to create a beautiful collage tapestry. Made entirely from wool, the artwork contains more than 1000 individual hand knitted sections. The project takes aim at global warming, it highlights both the causes and solutions for us to create a sustainable and safe climate for future generations. Lisa Kendal, the co-creator of the project, said “One of the problems in the world is that we have forgotten how to warm ourselves with wool. We have become too dependent on fossil fuels (for heating)”. This is the key idea surrounding the project. WARM began as two large scale images created by Lars Stenberg. The first image is a landscape scarred by coal mining. The second image is the same landscape only many decades later. Regeneration and regrowth have taken over the landscape and hidden the past coal mine completely. In its place is a beautiful landscape including trees, native flowers, a lake, lots of greenery and wind turbines. From March to the end of August in 2016, knitters worked hard to create the over one thousand pieces that came together to form the final tapestry. The pieces were all designed by Fibre Artist Georgie Nicolson of Tikki Knitting Designs, who converted the second image of the healed landscape into patterns for the 250 plus knitters to follow. These patterns included unusual designs such as gum leaves, trees, native flowers and even the wind turbines. During several days of installation, the knitted pieces were stitched together by Lars Stenberg over a picture of the first image of the operational coal mine. They worked to create the second image of the renewed landscape; like an enormous collage. The WARM project was donated to the National Wool Museum in 2021. It was a much-loved hanging within the Ballarat Hospital for many years before coming to the museum. More information about the project can be found on the following website. http://www.seam.org.au/warm The tapestry is made from 1000+ hand knitted sections stitched together to make an image. In the foreground of this image is a large gum tree that stretches from the bottom left to the top right corner. The trunk of this tree follows the left edge of the tapestry, with foliage from the gum tree spanning its top border. The bottom third of the tapestry is predominantly green grass with yellow, pink and red flowers providing sporadic colour. The middle third encompasses a lake, with orange colours surrounding the banks of the water as opposed to the green grasses of the bottom third. To the right of the lake are wind turbines. The top third of the tapestry is blue sky with white clouds. It also contains the previously described gum tree leaves. Each piece of the tapestry is 100% wool and was hand knitted and stitched together. The Tapestry is accompanied by an oil painting on canvas. It is a painting that matches the tapestry and served as a template for the final tapestry. Finally, the tapestry is accompanied by another pointing on wood board. This final panting is of a coal mine. This is the setting before regeneration and regrowth have reclaimed this site, which is the theme captured in the final tapestry. In the foreground of the coal mine painting is the same gum tree described in the tapestry; however, it is grey and sickle with only 4 leaves visible at the top border, compared to the numerous leaves in the tapestry. Also in the foreground is a broken barb wire fence adding to the unwelcoming nature of the site. The colour scheme of this image is of dark greys and browns. A coal fired power plant can be seen in the final third of the image with four chimneys emitting plumes of smoke into the sky. In front of this power plant is the spiral shape of a coal mine, burrowing deep into the earth’s crust. Inside of the coal mine 3 yellow trucks are seen mining and transporting coal to the top of the mine.warm, community textile tapestry, knitting, community artwork, global warming