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The McLeod rake is a two-sided blade on a long, wooden-handle. It is a standard〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Guardsmen fight fires with special friends )〕 yet esoteric tool during wildfire suppression and trail restoration. The combination tool was created in 1905 by Malcolm McLeod, a US Forest Service ranger at the Sierra National Forest, with a large hoe-like blade on one side and a tined blade on the other. The McLeod was designed to rake fire lines with the teeth and cut branches and sod with the sharpened hoe edge, but it has found other uses. It can remove slough and berm from a trail, tamp or compact tread, and can shape a trail's backslope. The tool can also be used for hand crimping straw mulch into soil a minimum depth of 2 inches, and is sometimes specified by the State of Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety for use during erosion control and soil amendment activities.〔http://mining.state.co.us/〕 Because of its shape, the McLeod is an awkward tool to transport and store. Some McLeod 〔http://www.americantrails.org/resources/info/tools5.html American Trails Retrieved July 15, 2006〕 tools are made with a removable blade to partially mitigate this problem. Ideally it is carried with the tines pointing toward the ground for safety, with a sheath over the cutting edge. However, the mass distribution makes it difficult to carry in this orientation consistently.〔http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/stanislaus/heritage/voices/voices25.shtml#A1 U.S. Forest Service - Heritage Resources Retrieved May 13, 2008〕 == See also == * Driptorch * Fire flapper (tool) * Flare * Pulaski (tool) * Fire rake 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「McLeod (tool)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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