The device was used for grinding nuts and peanuts, mainly for use in cakes.
The peanuts and nuts were placed in the top opening, the handle was turned, and the ground nuts and peanuts came out through the holes.

In the 1950s, peanuts were an important agricultural crop in Moshav Herut.
The children had an important role!
The peanut plants (groundnuts) were pulled out of the soil, turned over, dried in the sun, and piled up. The children’s job was to separate the peanuts — and for that, they earned a few coins.

Afterward, the peanuts were taken to the sorting warehouse — located where the Tel Mond community center stands today — where they were sorted and packed into sacks.

Asa Bartov from Moshav Herut recalls that their good friends,Jobe and Arik — only two years older than they were — were actually their employers when they were boys.