I like the kraut cutters. When I was a child in Germany, my grandma still used to make her own sauerkraut - like everyone else in the village. One of the guys in the village - he must have been over 80 years old when he retired - owned a large kraut cutter. During the season he went from house to house and, for a meal and a few marks or some sausages, helped people cut their cabbages. Those, of course, were grown in the yards behind the house or, in our case, on a patch of land next to the river.
Stefan