Manual Labour

Manual labour (in Commonwealth English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by humans, in contrast to labour by machines and working animals.

A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock.

It has a long handle and usually two to five thin tines designed to efficiently move such materials.

A spade is a tool primarily for digging, consisting of a long handle and blade, typically with the blade narrower and flatter than the common shovel.

It is used either as an agricultural implement similar to an axe, or in combat like a long-bladed knife.

A grain cradle or cradle, is a modification to a standard scythe to keep the cut grain stems aligned.

A scythe (, )is an agricultural hand-tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops.

Wool pressing with a manual wool press was hard, tiring work that required tramping the wool into a box and then pressing it further with a manually operated lever activated cable.