Name that axe

[Stubby]

12 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

So can we go with Smaug?

Smaug it is mate !

Edited October 9, 2017 by Stubby

[digaholedumper]

On 10/7/2017 at 16:29, Rough Hewn said:

My foot for size comparison

 

[digaholedumper]

 I have had it from good source that it looks very much like a coopers axe , these were used for making wooden beer & cider barrels, 

[digaholedumper]

7 minutes ago, digaholedumper said:

 I have had it from good source that it looks very much like a coopers axe , these were used for making wooden beer & cider barrels, 

could be from the 1800's

[Rough Hewn]

The wood in the background is part of a large,functional, portable cider press, 8'x10'.

[billpierce]

For mashing apples then?

[billpierce]

What were you doing on a cider press in your pjs?

[Beardie]

I have never seen an axe head attached to the haft like that. Maybe it's some sort of reproduction Mediaeval weapon, which would account for it never having been sharpened.

[treequip]

15 hours ago, se7enthdevil said:

am i the only one thinking that this could have been used in the slaughter house rather than for any form of forestry???

Unlikely, slaughter works are (were) done with a captive bolt or spike. Something bludgeonesque like that would also be a liability for dismembering, google "farriers axe" to see what that implement would look like

[treequip]

I think its someones 20th century attempt at an earlier period executioners axe.

It has the weight and the depth of throat needed for a one blow decapitation.

 

I don't think it has any great age to because the socket looks to be tube and arc welded, a couple of hundred years earlier it would most likely have been rolled and forge welded, nice wall hanger though.