| Turf is hard to cut with period spades and shovels, swaying us to the route of perhaps using clay clods to build the walls next time. |
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| Six black-rimmed wheels sent clods of earth flying as it sped over the rough ground, the only noise it made was the crackling of crushed foliage. |
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| Small plants at left, clods of earth at center, and arcs of grass at right punctuate the narrow ground. |
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| For this task, the farmer hitched the horse to a harrow which was dragged along the ground to break up the clods. |
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| After the land was ploughed, the turned earth would contain large clods of earth that required breaking up. |
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| The tyres are smoking like Bill Hicks and there are clods of earth rammed in the twin-exhaust pipes. |
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| Every morning he would be up before sunrise raring to go, throwing clods of earth at the windows of staff to awaken them. |
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| Reverse is better for controlled cutting, pulverizing clods, sorting debris from soil, and scarifying hard ground. |
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| He merely turned over huge clods of earth with one twist of a big spade and left them there, weeds still intact. |
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| Except for a scant few, the characters in St. Elmo's Fire are all either weasels, deceptive clods or selfish ninnies. |
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| The Unicorn snorted loudly and pawed the ground, throwing up clods of dirt and grass. |
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| During the day, they will be found buried in the loose soil and debris or under soil clods. |
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| Raines and Boyd have been given their walking papers, but the dirtiest clods of all so far have avoided the broom. |
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| There was a field beside the road, half mucky dirt and clods, and half graying grass struggling for vitality. |
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| He is, however, quite impatient with the clods and dullards who do not find the tradition hopelessly retrograde. |
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| This process is used to assist the break-down of large clay clods so that pulverisation requirements are achieved before compaction. |
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| Usually, a pass is made with a rolling cultivator to bust up the clods and make for a finer tilth. |
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| Ensure that all large soil clods are broken before BONANZA 10G GRANULAR HERBICIDE application. |
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| So now, the clods of earth of my veg patch have been sculptured into the shape of human skulls, all smooth and rounded, not by frost but by almost constant rain. |
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| It seems that no matter how well-prepared the seedbed is, when it comes time to cover a direct-seeded row, there are too many clods or lumps of soil. |
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| Even extremely large clods of soil or volumes of straw can therefore pass through without hindrance. |
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| When the rotary hoe is drawn backward, it gives a treading action that crushes clods and pulverizes stalks. |
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| Rollers, or pulverizers, with V-shaped wheels make a firm and continuous seedbed while crushing clods. |
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| Set the height of the clod clearer in such a way that only the coarse clods are cleared to the sides. |
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| Thus, the farmer usually attempts tillage of such soils only after a slow rain has moistened the clods and made them friable. |
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| I then hit the clods with a small hoe, removed the roots and piled them in a heap. |
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| Forged points break up and smash clods to refine the soil, which makes them also adapted for non worked soils. |
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| It crumbles the residual clods on heavy soils and loose soil is pre-consolidated by the levelling bar. |
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| The surface texture of the earth may vary from fine sand or silt to coarse clods, gravel, or boulders. |
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| Root crops are harvested with diggers and digger-pickers, which often pull up clods, stones, and vines with the crop. |
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| The soil is well prepared, with clods broken up, and is fertilized with sheep manure. |
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| Here the clods are not crushed. This area of soil will be used for covering the rows of seed. |
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| Do not put clods of detergent into the soap dispenser as the tube in the washing machine may clog. |
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| Accordingly, as frozen clods grew in size, the number of voids inside embankment increased. |
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| Mix the soil collected from each area thoroughly in a clean bucket, breaking up clods. |
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| The soil should be cultivated so that it is level and with no clods or clumps. |
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| Soil clods continually hit by metal spikes and blades lose the weak bonds of aggregates, and the soil becomes fluffy and dusty. |
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| Hampered by a name that was unpronounceable, together with a heavy accent, he was relegated to playing muscle-bound clods in a string of second-rate films. |
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| Frost expands the water in clay soils, which bursts the heavy clods apart. |
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| To silence the dog, Virgil throws clods of earth into each of his throats. |
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| The effect is like watching clods of earth fall inexorably into a grave. |
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| Nice to know we have as many selfish clods as other parts of the world. |
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| The clod clearers should only clear the coarse clods. |
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| I put the clods on top the delve and gave it all a good thumping down with my feet. |
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| Six fruit bushes in ready-to-plant clods presented in a harvest basket. |
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| The boys built dams in the storm runoff that came from the pipe, dug treacherous caves into the sandy bank, hid in the ditch to lob dirt clods at cars that had come down their street by mistake, thinking it a throughway. |
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| And you could crawl over there to it, couldn't you – a 20 minute walk, picking yourself through clods of seaweed and unturned razor shells, dip your toes in the frigid North Sea – but you're not going to. |
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| The seed bed should be level, free from clods and have a fairly finecrumbled, loose soil layer with a depth of 8 to 10 cm, which is sufficiently firm and moist and permits the building of a well-formed ridge. |
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| Next, hand-turn the bed with a shovel, then rototill twice to reduce dirt clods. |
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| Air-dry clods of the material do not slake when immersed in water. |
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| The seed bed should be firm and free of clods and trash. |
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| This keeps clods or stones from being thrown up bythe tine tip. Due to the combination of these two specific fi features the Hibiscus rake guarantees clean raking as well as a clean crop. |
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| This ensures that stones and clods of earth are kept out. |
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