shovels and spades

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Madhava Gosh wrote:

 

>I don't know if the wearing characteristics of silver would make it a good

>material for a

>spade. The steel ones wear out fast enough.

 

But I am not intending digging the ground with my shovel. It it for slicing

out soft compost and distributing it. In India we got a large silage type

knife made for this purpose. There is a company in Germany that has a

catalogue of copper tools, but I would have thought that one could have a

regular spade coated with copper. etc.,

 

>maintain a rifle, a shovel, and a blanket ready to go. That is some

>serious national

>defense. My standard benchmark for emergency preparedness doesn't even

include the rifle.

 

Mine would also exclude the rifle as it is illegal here,

But it usually includes a four by four full of fuel to tow trailer

blankets

several gallons of water

a spade

map

gas

and food something similar to Bhakti Tirtha Maharaja's "survival" notes

 

>Maybe silver ones for the brahmanas

 

As you say these would alone probably be too soft. How then did they proceed

in the last Treta Yuga? Perhaps they didn't dig the ground at all, only

gently cultivated the surface so as not to destroy the soils structure, and

moved material from one place to another with silver tools! Krsna book

describes the soil in Vrndavan forests as deep, black and devoid of stones

and covered with Darba grass.

 

Archaeology in more recent times:

 

They have recently documneted the ICE MAN who was found and was dug out of a

glasier in Austria. He was 5,300 years old. He carried with him an axe, a

bow and arrows and a spear headed with some special green stone that was

very sharp. His body was clearly marked with tatoos depicting aqupuncture

points for reference to previous treatment. Even older 10,000 years in

Turkey, they found civilisations who lived for thousands of years on top of

one another. They just buried the dead and built a house on top. Then they

would die and build another house on top and so on. Saves moving if you

think the area is that good.

There was found everywhere a volcanic glass called obsidian that was

extremely hard and was polished very finely into mirrors - this is

apparently inexplicable as to how they could do this. This is known as the

obsidian mystery.

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>

> They have recently documneted the ICE MAN who was found and was dug out of a

> glasier in Austria. He was 5,300 years old. He carried with him an axe, a

> bow and arrows and a spear headed with some special green stone that was

> very sharp.

 

Last fall at the World's Largest Gourd Show, there was a Native American man

that was doing flint knapping on site using traditional tools. He had a lot of

traditional stuff, tools and things. I was impressed by his knowledge, and

gave him an rare very small gourd. In exchange, he gave me a very well made

flint arrowhead. Flint is much harder than steel, and very sharp when knapped

properly.