Capacity measures Once harvests were harvested. In the first half of the 20th century, in spite of the implementation of the decimal metric system, some of the old measures, such as celemin, persisted. The standardization of measurements and the fixing of patterns was...
Know down reed The reeds had many applications in traditional culture, were used in construction, as in the manufacture of musical instruments, to make baskets to make caizizos and dry steps, or silk platforms to raise silkworms, to make rockets… In the field...
Fly trap Before chemical compounds appeared, there were other more rudimentary mechanisms, such as glass bottles for the orange fly.The bottle for the fly or “mosqueta” (‘fly’), is a trap for fruit flies. It has two holes, one at the top, for...
Tragella Agricultural apparatus composed of a wooden quadrangular box (0’95 m long by 0’43 m wide) closed behind and with walls laterals that sometimes tend to be defined from more to less towards the upper end. Some tragelles were made of wood only and...
Spike roller The spike roller. It is a tree plant that consists of a scaffolding rectangular wood supported by two side bars on which they go two metal cylindrical rollers fitted with spigons arranged in linear form. The rutlon birch is articulated by one or two...
Wheeled grail The wheeled grail is a large, heavier ploughing machine that It required a considerable force of animals to drag it, since It was used to make a lot of fallow. It was formed by a rectangular structure which was held on two wheels. It consists of the...
