Sheaf (agriculture)
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In agriculture, a sheaf is a bundle of stalks of grain, including the ears at the top . Several sheaves be on the field to Diemen compiled to dry.
Previously, that was including in Central Europe cereal in the grain harvest with the sickle , sight or sense mowed and then bundled into sheaves by some stalks wrapped around the bundle to hold it together. To dry the grain, several sheaves were leaned against each other on the field.
With advancing mechanization in agriculture, the mowing of the grain was first mechanized by mowing machines and later also the sheaf binding by the mower binders . In the case of the mower binders, the sheaves were no longer tied together with stalks of grain, but with special twine.
After the sheaves had dried, they were loaded onto specially converted trailers and temporarily stored in a barn so that they could be threshed out in a less laborious period . Sometimes interim storage was dispensed with and threshed immediately.
To loosen the dried sheaves, there were special knives that had different regional shapes, e.g. B. like an open brass knuckle , which has a thin cutting edge instead of the striking surface, or U-shaped, with a vertical line being the handle, the other serving as the cutting edge and the connection between the two as hand protection. Shapes like a fist knife were also not uncommon. The sheaf knife allowed the fingers to move freely between the cutting files .
Sheaves play a role in heraldry as "common figures" .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ on the forms of heaps of sheaves cf. Meyer's Universal Lexicon
