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Post by LeMal on Jun 5, 2012 23:07:58 GMT
Damn, might have been made as a farm tool but this would be perfect as a billhook weapon. I wish I weren't dedicated to not accumulating more for a while. Someday I'll have to either find another one or make one made--and in the latter case it won't have the patina and allure of weathering of this one. If someone else here picks it up--and I hope someone does--share your impressions! Vintage ~ Pickaroon Hookaroon ~ Axe Sickle Hook Farm Woods Old Tool Scythe www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Pickaro ... 1160wt_698
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Post by Marc Kaden Ridgeway on Jun 5, 2012 23:29:32 GMT
its a bush axe
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Post by LeMal on Jun 5, 2012 23:36:08 GMT
Aha--many thanks, Mark. With the proper term I can see some like it are still being made and available. Plus an antique one will be easier to find. Either way makes it much easier when I'm in the mood to get one.
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Post by chuckinohio on Jun 6, 2012 0:46:05 GMT
You will occasionally see them referred to as Ditch Axes or Bank Axes also. Usually a ditch axe has a little different form to it, but essentially does the same thing, and the terms are used interchangeably.
You can find them everywhere, garage sales, farm sales, flea markets, laying in the ditch, under the chicken coop.....
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Post by LeMal on Jun 6, 2012 7:38:36 GMT
Another good lead--thanks! Which led me to it apparently being called a kaiser blade or sling blade too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_bladeWhich not only makes the movie title make so much more sense (I admit to not having seen it yet)--the movie reference punctuates it's capability as a weapon. (As if the billhook shape weren't enough to surmise it.)
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Post by William Swiger on Jun 6, 2012 11:21:35 GMT
We call them brush hooks in WV.
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Post by chuckinohio on Jun 6, 2012 12:23:18 GMT
Yep.
I never heard one called a Brush AXE until Forestry School.
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Post by MOK on Jun 14, 2012 12:21:15 GMT
You'll also find them sold as bills, bill hooks and such. In Finnish we call this a vesuri; their main use up here is for limbing trees, and vesa is one Finnish word for a tree branch or offshoot. You can find the traditional wood-hafted ones (virtually always with a socketed blade) in any halfway decent hardware store, and Fiskars makes several really tough models with modern synthetic materials: It's pretty much the machete of Northern Europe. Also, my improvised anti-zombie weapon of choice!
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