Abstract: A portable hand-held collector for retrieving irregularly shaped nuts or objects from the ground while the user maintains a substantially erect posture. The body of the collector comprises a pair of tubes of substantially equivalent inner and outer diameter axially coupled by a rigid sleeve. The input tube is axially coupled to a tubular insert comprising an input orifice normally blocked by a plurality of flexible, spaced apart springs. When the collector is pressed down on target nuts, the springs resiliently yield to admit the nuts interiorly of the insert. After the nuts are captured within the input tube, the springs assume their original orientation preventing captured nuts from escaping. The inner diameter of the tabular insert is smaller than the inner diameter of the input tube, so an annular shoulder is formed. Incoming nuts pass the annular shoulder on their way into the input tube.

Abstract: A device for rewinding line onto a spool comprising two substantially parallel sides spaced apart by a handle, a shaft rotatably mounted through a first side and biased toward a second side, with spool gripping means on end of the shaft adjacent to the second side for gripping a spool and forcing it against the second side which is preferably a plate or baffle having a configuration at least as large as the spool.

Abstract: A device for rewinding line onto a spool comprising in one embodiment two substantially parallel sides spaced apart by a handle, a shaft rotatably mounted through a first side and biased toward a second side, with spool gripping means on end of the shaft adjacent to the second side for gripping a spool and forcing it against the second side which is preferably a plate or baffle having a configuration at least as large as the spool. In a second embodiment a single plate is used with a means for biasing a spool against the plate which operates on the rotatable shaft on which the spool is mounted.