Different peat, different turves 

The top layer of a new peat field was ideally suitable to make turves for industrial use. To harvest is, you have to do the following: wait until a colleague has cut the peat vertically to size with a spade (6). Then scoop the pre-punched turves out with a so-called peat scoop (7 and 8) and place them on a wheelbarrow (10) with a special scoop or a pitchfork (9). When the wheelbarrow is full, push it to the setting field and empty it by swiftly tipping it sideways so that the turves are automatically laid out in neat rows, to dry.  

The bottom layer of wet peat made good material for turves for domestic use. Making that type involves a different technique and requires various special tools such as peat shovels in different shapes and sizes (11,12) and shafted sludge clogs (13). Here’s how it works: shovel the wet peat into a large flat trough. Then add water from a bucket (14) and mix with the peat into a mortar-like mass, with a rake (15). Scoop the mixture onto the field to dry. The typical peat treading clogs (16) serve to drive out the water and compact the peat mortar by treading and stamping on it.  The crutches (17) help to keep your balance. Once the mortar is dry enough, you cut it to size with a special short spade (18) or, if you are so lucky to have one, with a sludge cutter (19), a new invention that makes the work a lot easier.  
  
Got it? Then get cracking now, as there are 10,000 turves to be made today!