Name/Title
Scythe Blade, Grain Flails, and ScaleEntry/Object ID
100386Scope and Content
(AI) Scythe Blade (Top Overhead): A long, gently curved forged-steel cutting blade mounted horizontally across the wooden lintel. Used for hand-mowing grass, hay, or grains when attached to a snath.
Grain Flails (Hanging Left): Jointed wooden threshing tools consisting of a longer handle (staff) attached by a leather thong hinge to a heavier swinging stick (swiple). Farmers swung these to beat harvested sheaves of wheat or rye on a barn floor to separate the grain from the chaff.
Steelyard Scale Weight & Beam (Right Center): A cast-iron counterweight hanging from the hook mechanism of an iron steelyard scale, used for weighing heavy farm goods or livestock yield on a lever arm.