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Good Feller
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Is this a large broad axe? Isaiah Blood took over that company in the 1800s.
Yes its the one in post 1040
Pickaroon, hookaroon, sappie. All names for the same tool ..... Along with 'most excellent and essential back saving wooder's tool'
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Lol, where do you see post numbers? If you google, blood callston ny extra steel, a bunch of really educational stuff pops up for that. It was a fun read and made me a little envious of your awesome axe.
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I got all of these at an auction for five dollars. There was a 3lb and an 8lb sledge head also but somebody gave me five dollars for them. So after the auctioneer 10% premium I paid 50 cents. I'm happy with it. Now I need to buy a dozen or so handles and get some garage time.
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I've decided I may start wearing rubber gloves when applying BLO. Two or three days after I used it, I'll rub my eye, scratch my ear, and get a wiff of dead fish, or something similar. I was just playing with two axes I recently coated and they still smell. It's not bad at first, but when it won't go away, yuck.
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Did a little more finishing to the Stiletto axe, and it works great.
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I picked up a new axe head today, no name or marks on it, I'll try to get some pics tomorrow so I can get edumacated by some of this threads gurus.
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No new finds for me this weekend 
But , here's a pretty cool couple of old vids
But , here's a pretty cool couple of old vids
I forgot to update, sorry!
So the oak chip stew turned black and the axe heads very black, but once dry the black powder just brushed off...boo. never mind
still nice.
pretty tightfit with the wedge expanding the handle very well. just a wee gap at the back, tight round the bottom all round
nice and straight
yeah! nice expansion. don't think that is going to come loose....I'm rather smugly pleased! been a bit of work with filing out the eye but, it feels and looks nice. Obs I'll cut the edge off and stick one or 2 metal wedges across the head. can't decide...grind the sticky out bit round like buckin' does or leave as is....hmmm
So the oak chip stew turned black and the axe heads very black, but once dry the black powder just brushed off...boo. never mind
still nice.
pretty tightfit with the wedge expanding the handle very well. just a wee gap at the back, tight round the bottom all round nice and straight yeah! nice expansion. don't think that is going to come loose....I'm rather smugly pleased! been a bit of work with filing out the eye but, it feels and looks nice. Obs I'll cut the edge off and stick one or 2 metal wedges across the head. can't decide...grind the sticky out bit round like buckin' does or leave as is....hmmm
need to get the Jersey hung too. Some how the red paint on that goes 1/4" down inside the eye and i'll take that out...its thick, it would stop the handle. makes me think ....has that paint been put on by a previous owner (after the handle had slipped a bit)? I have no idea how True Temper axes were finished originally
This is a small pick/mattock set on a DBA handle that I had just re-wedged. It was very old, 60’s vintage at the very latest from my grandpa’s house. My son was cleaning off the beach and heard a crack. I told him it was nothing and then he walks over to me with this. He thought I would be mad that he broke it lol. I told him it was about time.
He did a nice job busting the rust off the newer full size pick mattock #2. I oiled it before putting it away to keep it “purdy”.
Hard at work. Definitely the hardest those teenage muscles have ever worked. He felt it the next day lol
Here’s mattock #3. The handle was pretty beaten up and wasn’t going to hold with a slip fit without a little help.
I rip sawed the end down about three inches and put in a wooden wedge then slipped the head over and tapped it on a hard surface. Its on there good now and after two days of my boys digging roots it hasn’t moved.
He did a nice job busting the rust off the newer full size pick mattock #2. I oiled it before putting it away to keep it “purdy”.
Hard at work. Definitely the hardest those teenage muscles have ever worked. He felt it the next day lol
Here’s mattock #3. The handle was pretty beaten up and wasn’t going to hold with a slip fit without a little help.
I rip sawed the end down about three inches and put in a wooden wedge then slipped the head over and tapped it on a hard surface. Its on there good now and after two days of my boys digging roots it hasn’t moved.
Here’s that 12 pound sledge that I did in the Ospho a few weeks ago. House handle isn’t perfect but it should last a few decades as a backup backup tool. The grain is good though.
I remember dad having a sledge like that when i was a kid, it got loaned to someone and lost, oh well.
I don’t use a big sledge of 10+ lbs very often but they are very handy when needed.
Busting concrete, freeing frozen logs, driving a splitting wedge (I usually use a ~8 pounder for that). Can’t think of much else a other than they can crush cans with just gravity if needed.
Busting concrete, freeing frozen logs, driving a splitting wedge (I usually use a ~8 pounder for that). Can’t think of much else a other than they can crush cans with just gravity if needed.
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