Vintage Axes and Garden Equipment

[roys]

8 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

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.

Beer bottle opening is certainly a good use of the notch, believe it had several uses including what you mentioned plus a drip point and a marker for the end point of the sharpening edge.

i also inherited my dads kukri from his military days in the 60’s it is still in very good condition even with my brother and I playing with it during the 70’s, it was the 70’s after all😀

 

[sime42]

Excuse my lack of knowledge here, but how come everyone seems to have a Kukri? I've got one, two actually, that I inherited from my grandfather. I never talked to him about them though, so didn't hear the history. Were they handed out to everyone in the Services as a matter of course?

 

 

[roys]

I know my dad got his from the Gurkha’s has he was part of a hand over group that were handing over their duties to the Gurkas.

 

[organic guy]

Found this little beauty, I know there was some discussion on here earlier about modified hammers but there is too much metal in the axe head to be drawn out from a hammer head. My builder suggested a firemans axe?

[Doug Tait]

3 hours ago, peds said:

negotiations, discussion, diplomacy, etc. before resorting to the nuclear option

 

Win with head Danielson, no fist. If win fist you have lost, understand?

Now, paint fence...

[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, sime42 said:

Excuse my lack of knowledge here, but how come everyone seems to have a Kukri? I've got one, two actually, that I inherited from my grandfather. I never talked to him about them though, so didn't hear the history. Were they handed out to everyone in the Services as a matter of course?

 

 

My father was a RAF radar fitter in Burma so I think he acquired it, probably as a swap on the year long trip home. I also have an SS dress dagger brought home by an uncle, who landed on D day with the pioneer corps, and a Wehrmacht dress bayonet found in the peat after a flash fire. My guess is that was a trophy too and one of the kids took it onto the common for war games.

 

BTW I cannot understand how a kukri was much use as a weapon, more a good general utility knife/slasher/chopper.

[sime42]

I'd guess it was just used to brutally hack and chop at body parts. Not a pleasant thought. On the odd occasions I've tried it on wood I've found it quite awkward, the angle seems to be  wrong.

 

My grandfather was in the RAF in some capacity. I'll to ask my mum if she knows anything about the Kukris, or where he was stationed.

[spudulike]

9 hours ago, organic guy said:

Found this little beauty, I know there was some discussion on here earlier about modified hammers but there is too much metal in the axe head to be drawn out from a hammer head. My builder suggested a firemans axe?

Mine was a ball pein hammer and the hammer part was formed in to the axe head. It is possible the hammer end on yours has been formed from the pein part of the hammer by grinding the edges and end of the pein.

[Peasgood]

12 hours ago, organic guy said:

Found this little beauty, I know there was some discussion on here earlier about modified hammers but there is too much metal in the axe head to be drawn out from a hammer head. My builder suggested a firemans axe?

I remember a lot of folk having similar in their coal bunker for breaking up the big lumps. I have always known such things as coal hammers.

[organic guy]

Before and after, found under the farm work bench when tidying😀

Now have a matching pair, one for me and one my wife!