A large steel curved bladed silage or hay knife with a tapered handle and a bent pointed sharp end. It was used to cut hay when it is dry. Blocks were cut for the ? or stack as needed for stock feed. Silage is an animal feed cut and stored while still green.

agricultutal tools, hay knife, agricultural equipment

A steel curved double bladed silage or hay knife with two wooden handles at the top attached by rivets. The long blades have sharp points at the end. The handle bracket is joined to the steel blades by a nut and bolt. It has a cog mechanism to move the blades. It was used to cut hay when it is dry. Blocks were cut for the ? or stack as needed for stock feed. Silage is an animal feed cut and stored while still green.

agricultutal tools, hay knife, agricultural equipment

A silage or hay knife with two turned wooden handles. The blade has eight teeth. It was used to cut hay when it is dry. Blocks were cut for the stack as needed for stock feed. Silage is an animal feed cut and stored while still green.

'Brades & Co, Pat. No.71'

agricultutal tools, hay knife, agricultural equipment

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

A hand slasher with a long wooden handle and a heavy sharp steel rectangular blade attached with rivets to the handle. It was efficient for clearing thin and dense low-lying scrub, ferns or bush where an axe would be too clumsy.

'232205' is stamped on the flat blade but the writing is Indiscernible.

tools, agricultural equipment, agricultural tools, slashers, gardening tools

A handmade slasher with a long wooden handle and a heavy sharp steel blade attached with a rivet to the handle. It was efficient for clearing thin and dense low-lying scrub or bush where an axe would be too clumsy.

Indiscernable inscription

tools, agricultural equipment, agricultural tools, slashers, gardening tools

It was handmade by Wandin T Sebire and used in the 19th or early 20th century

A handmade flail with a long wooden handle which is attached to a shorter freely swinging stick or bar joined by leather straps. It was used for threshing the grain by hand to separate it from the husks.

farm equipment, flails, hand tools

Used in the 19th and early 20th century.

A metal scythe with a long curved wooden handle to manoeuvre the blades. There are also two shorter wooden handles or 'nibs' fitted at an angle to suit the user attached to the main handle by a metal ring. It has two curved pointed cutting blades which are attached by nuts and bolts to the handle.

agricultural tools, scythes, cutting tools, agricultural equipment

A thick forged steel three pronged fork hoe head made by a blacksmith. There is a hole at the fork head where a handle can be attached.

agricultural tools, gardening tools, hoes, gardening forks, handtools

It was used on well worked ground.

A combined hoe and rake metal headed hand scarifier or cultivator tool with a long wooden handle. It has three curved metal hooks with sharp points and was used to break up the ground. It could be used in small areas such as a garden.

agricultural tools, tools, rakes, scarifiers, gardening tools, hand tools, hoes

Manufactured by F.E. Kohler & Co, Canton, Ohio

A vintage post hole digger with two long wooden handles and two metal scooped blades. It is operated with a lever action, with the two handles pulled apart to take a 'bite' of earth. The handles are attached by a nut and bolt. There is a crowbar on the end of one handle and a rammer on the end of the other. The brand is F.E. Kohler & Co, Canton, Ohio.

'Kohler Little Giant' patented.

tools, agricultural tools, farming equipment, garden tools

Embroidered inen table mat with blue straight edging along the top and blue scalloped edging along the bottom edge. There is a brown embriodered bowl with blue and pink flowers and green leaves at the bottom.

Small, green glass bottle, tapering in shape from top to bottom. It has no lid or stopper.

None

Screw-top glass jam jar with no lid, It has 2 diamond shapes, one inside the other on the front of the jar with lettering within.

Inside the outer diamond shape: "Clegg & Kemp Melbourne" & inside the inner diamond: "Trade CK Mark Jams".

Small, triangular-shaped bottle filled with dark blue ink and with lettering down one side of the bottle. It has a small cork stopper.

Down one side of the bottle: "R. HARPER & CO. Ltd" and on the base: "L 563"

Small squre-based glass bottle with no lid or stopper

None

Deep blue glass bottle with rounded upper corners and a metal screw-on lid.

Used in the 19th or early 20th century

A long handled steel vintage post hole digger with two large curved split blades. Each blade is attached to the top of the handle by three screws. It has a rotating action with the digger boring into the earth as the handle is turned. There is an attachment at the end of the steel handle for a missing turning handle.

'S' is stamped on the top of the handle.

tools, agricultural tools, farming equipment, garden tools

Used in the late 19th and early 20th century.

A vintage No 2 Class II Salters Improved Spring Balance weigh scale with a weight guage of 0 - 40 lbs. It is made of metal with four rivets holding the front measurement panel covering the spring with a ring at the top and a hook at the bottom to hold the item being weighed. It was manufactured in England by Salters and used in the late 19th and early 20th century.

'No 2 Class II Salters Improved Spring Balance weight guage 0 - 40 lbs. Manufactured in England by Salters'''

spring balances, scales, balances, weighing instruments

A small vintage handmade metal rectangular meat chopper with a short metal handle attached to the very sharp blade. It has a turned, patterned curved wooden handle joined to this.

cutters, cutting tools, butchers tools, meat chopper, cleavers, butchers knives

A steel manual breast drill with an attached curved flat plate at the top to apply pressure with the chest.. This plate is attached to the drill by a screw. A wooden handle turns the drill mechanism to operate it and a second wooden handle is to steady the operation. It was used for making cylindrical holes by rotation.

drills, push drills, hand drills, tools, handtools, breast drills, woodworking tools

Used in the late 19th or early 20th century.

A large triangular shaped metal blade tin cutter for manually opening kerosene and petrol tin lids which were often recycled for use on farms in the 19th and early 20th century. It has a rectangular shaped tubular steel handle attached to the top side by two rivets. On one of the triangular points of the blade is the manufacturer's brand ' Chapman and Co, Enfield S.A'. It was Australian made.

'Chapman and Co, Enfield S..A'.

tin openers, tools, tin cutter, farming equipment

Used late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A blacksmith handmade hay fork or pitch fork with three thin forked metal spikes and a handmade long wooden handle. The head is attached to the handle with two rivets. It was used in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

gardening tools, gardening equipment, domestic equipment, tools, gardening forks, pitchforks, agricultural equipment

Used circa 1890.

A blacksmith handmade bush rake with a steel head and a handmade long wooden handle which was roughly hewn from tea-tree wood. The head with 11 prongs is attached to the handle by a fork shaped steel fitted extension with three rivets. It was used to rake up debris after clearing land circa 1890.

gardening tools, gardening rakes, rakes, gardening equipment, domestic equipment, tools

A thick forged steel three pronged fork hoe head made by a blacksmith. There is a bent extension piece at the fork head where a handle can be attached.

agricultural tools, gardening tools, hoes, gardening forks, handtools