Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a plastic stringline cutter apparatus is provided which includes a base, an upright stand, and a faceplate that permanently connects unitary through which a slot with an oval acclivity or syncline is provided which accepts a ratchet paddleblade with a connecting handle that mounts springable, releasable and reversible in a unitary slot. In one embodiment the paddleblade with connecting handle which is manually springable operative has a plurality of incurvate xyresic edges, typically two, one upper and one lower.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a cable winding apparatus is provided which includes a stand, a race on the stand, a manually rotatable handle including a clutch having a mating surface for engaging and rotatably driving a spool positioned between the handle and the race, and a spindle releasably and rotatably connecting the race and the handle. In one embodiment, the race is contained upon one end of a removable plug that fits into a socket in the stand, said plug being reversible with an alternative nonidentical race on the opposite end. The race can be conic, hemispherical or bulbous or have stepped concentric circles. The clutch may include conical or right cylindrical external or internal mating surfaces or teeth and may include adapters having similar surfaces engageable therewith for mating with different sized reels.