A person may take a hammer with which to crack nuts; or a hatchet [with which] to cut a cake of pressed figs; a saw with which to slice cheese; a shovel with which to scoop up dried figs; a winnowing shovel or a pitchfork on which to put [something] for a child; a spindle or a weaver’s reed with which to spear [fruit]; a hand needle with which to take [out] a thorn; or [a] sackmakers’ [needle] with which to open a door.

A cane for olives, if there is a knot at its end, it is susceptible to tumah-contamination; and if not, it is not susceptible to tumah-contamination. In either case it may be taken on the Sabbath.