Vintage Axes and Garden Equipment

[roys]

12 hours ago, organic guy said:

Very smart.

Did it have the old handle on, to me that looks too long for the billhook, more like the length of the Yorkshire pattern where they usually have two straps down the side of the handle which I assume is for strength to counter the long handle.

Still very smart.

Found the bill hook in a field by a stone dyke wall, well rusted and no sign or remnants of any handle, the tang is 6” long with no signs of it being peened over in its past life, although I do see the logic in that and I do have two  kukri’s with the tang peened over.

[sime42]

I much prefer the caulked handles too. I find the round section ones feel all wrong, much less directional control.

 

I don't think caulked handles are expensive now @openspaceman 

Not much more than a fiver when I see them in agricultural suppliers normally. Made from decent Ash too, (not like a lot of tool handles these days, that feel like rubber and no doubt come from the other side of the world).

 

 

[roys]

My kukri which has spent a few shifts in the woods.

[daveatdave]

4 minutes ago, roys said:

My kukri which has spent a few shifts in the woods.

I used to have one Compleat with scabbard and 2 throwing knives it somehow disappeared quit a few years ago   

[daveatdave]

forgot to say that folk law/tradition says that if you take it out of the scabbard it has to draw blood before you put it back   

[roys]

9 minutes ago, daveatdave said:

I used to have one Compleat with scabbard and 2 throwing knives it somehow disappeared quit a few years ago   

Usually the two smaller knifes served different functions, one was blunt (chakmak) and used for removing burrs from the main blade and the other was a small utility knife (Karda).

[roys]

9 minutes ago, daveatdave said:

forgot to say that folk law/tradition says that if you take it out of the scabbard it has to draw blood before you put it back   

Think that was a bit of an urban myth 😀

[Stubby]

6 hours ago, roys said:

Think that was a bit of an urban myth 😀

Same was said of the Samurai sword ...

[openspaceman]

9 hours ago, roys said:

Usually the two smaller knifes served different functions, one was blunt (chakmak) and used for removing burrs from the main blade and the other was a small utility knife (Karda).

My dad said the small blunt one was for cleaning animal skins on his issue one, and the notches near the handle for opening bottles. I wonder what happened to it after he died.

[peds]

9 hours ago, daveatdave said:

forgot to say that folk law/tradition says that if you take it out of the scabbard it has to draw blood before you put it back   

I imagine that was more intended to mean that you should only bring out your weapon when you absolutely have to use it, and not just wave it around willy-nilly, rather than every time you draw your blade you have to ice someone. As in try negotiations, discussion, diplomacy, etc. before resorting to the nuclear option.