Vintage Axes and Garden Equipment

[daveatdave]

1 hour ago, spudulike said:

Hate to mention this but the small hatchet in the second pic....it looks like someone has put the the head on upside down. 

On the bright side, you may find a makers mark on the head if you look closely. Brades or Eagle edge etc may be nice.

that is quite possible Onley use it for large bits to whittle down for sticks. 

[lux]

This thread kickstarted a put off mini project.  Found a vintage 4 1/2 lb Hultafors Bruk axe head in the barn when we moved here about 8 yrs ago.  I’ve just  Restored the head correcting the primary and secondary bevels. I made the handle from locally milled Ash , locally milled Laburnum for the cross wedge and palm

[Stubby]

On 19/02/2024 at 22:48, daveatdave said:

i would like to know what this hammer head is for (I use it as a door stop)

Something tells me its was used on the railway . Tapping rails into line before clamping them down .

[lux]

On 26/02/2024 at 09:28, Stubby said:

Something tells me its was used on the railway . Tapping rails into line before clamping them down .

Ill go for some sort of heavy foundry / forging type work

[Stubby]

38 minutes ago, lux said:

Ill go for some sort of heavy foundry / forging type work

Yea , could be , could be . 🙂

[sandspider]

Looks a bit like something used in forging, to cut hot metal. One person holds it on the metal, the other hammers the back of it to drive the sharp / thin end through...

Edited February 27 by sandspider

[Stubby]

1 minute ago, sandspider said:

Looks a bit like something used in forging, to cut hot metal. One person holds it on the metal, the other hammers the back of it to drive it through...

Yep , seen that done . 👍

[lux]

21 minutes ago, sandspider said:

Looks a bit like something used in forging, to cut hot metal. One person holds it on the metal, the other hammers the back of it to drive the sharp / thin end through...

Nope, that would be a hot set or a hot cut tool, most commonly it would be slotted into the hardy , you do get hot cut chisels which basically look like a hammer because they have a handle, the handle is merely there to place the chisel head on the hot metal accurately before striking it. Neither end of this is suitable for cutting, one end is clearly a cross pein and the other can't be made out too well. 

 

 

 

[Stere]

 

The track chisel has th  edge the other way like an axe?

 

Looks abit  like this sledge hammer

 

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[lux]

One of my crosspein forging hammers.  Same as the one in the pic it’s round in profile for spreading metal.