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We used to call them "gunney sacks".
Good guess, no bones though.
Joe H
We used to call them "gunney sacks".
Always thought that was a guinea sack. I stand corrected.jt8
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A broken sickle blade that someone has ground down and put a handle on ?
Old school tool for cutting Vinyl Flooring?
You mean linoleum?
be cutting up
'Nemo me impune lacesset'No one will provoke me with impunity
Yes, but spelling was never one of my high points.
So we call it all vinyl when were on the computer.
yeah, vinal will work.
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'Nemo me impune lacesset'No one will provoke me with impunity
Tobacco or corn knife...stalk chopper. I have a few of various types.
I was going to vote with you until I found the answer had already been given.
I would have claimed a corn knife but mine is a little longer so you do not need to bend over so far. Use mine every year cutting stalks for goose blind camo.
Jim
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I would have claimed a corn knife but mine is a little longer so you do not need to bend over so far.>>>>Uhhhh, you sure you didn't just get out of prison? Something sounds a lil' sexual about that...lolThe secret of Zen in two words is, "Not always so"!
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looks pretty similar to a grape knife.. or girka. but the handle seems wrong
james
A knife.
hello .Over this side of the pond its called a bill hook and its used for hedge laying. You cut about 2/3rds of the way through the main stem (trunk) of the hedge near the ground and then lay the still connected trunk down towards the ground, the stem then starts growing from the side of the main trunk ,making a good thick hedge. I hope this makes sense over your side of the pond . wishing you all a happy holiday.regards teabag (cruised over from knots)
No fair. No Brits allowed.
I found it on Ebay, it's a "This is a hurdle making hook that has made many thousands of hurdles and is made by Fussells......!!"
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6238258919&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
This hook is part of a very historic collection belonging to an old Hurdle Maker from Dorset. The collection holds many rare and unique hooks and with many of the hooks being made in the 19th century.
Billhooks have been used in this country for thousands of years and Bronze age billhooks have been found. They have played such an historic part in the shaping of our countryside since those times and it wasn’t that long ago that every countryman owned at least one. The pattern and design of hooks run into the thousands as before the age of mass production they were made by your local blacksmith or foundry who pretty much made everything else in your district that was made from metal.
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Billhooks today are still used but the new age of billhooks has produced a poor cousin to the old hooks and once you have used an old hook you will understand this, it is amazing that these new hooks cost a fortune for a very inferior product that our ancestors would of never worked with.
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You are bidding for a part of our historic rural history as once you have used one of these tools you are forever part of it’s history and again these have been much loved over the years by an old wonderful Hurdle Maker…………..!
Is a hedge a Hurdle? Is a Hurdle Maker a gardener?
Here's another http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6238259518&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 Hurdle Makers Snedding Billhook Very Very Rare.
This is a hurdle makers snedding hook and is used by the hurdlemaker to cut the ends of the hurdle off, this hook has seen some wonderful work and it is rare to find snedding hooks, most of them have been scrapped as not many people know what they are for.........!
Learn something new & useless every day on Ebay.
Joe H
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A hurdle was (is) a portable section of fence for moving & pasturing livestock. The swine version now is made from plywood, maybe 2 1/2 x 3, with a couple of hand holds in the top. When you need to go in with or move pigs, it guides them where you want them & (supposedly) keeps them from running between your legs. The sheep version is maybe 3 x 6, & several can be tied together to make a temporary pen.
Now they are made from metal, but in the old days, were woven from saplings. Hence the bill hook.
Ah, more useless info for my collection.
Things I learned from Ebay & BT.
Thanks Kate,
Joe H
Over this side of the pond
I am standing on my back porch and looking out over the pond, but I do not see anyone on the other side. Wha zup?
How was your Thanksgiving holiday?
The secret is out, but it looks like a hog scraper to me.
Who needs wattles when we have the great Wild Rose or Living Fence as the great folks from the Agricultural Dept liked to call it.The scourge of the homestead as we call it. A bulldozer or goats with attitudes are the only way to clear it altho the same Ag folks used to give this stuff Tordon to farmers to kill it and anything within a acre of it.
Hackberry, Hawthorn, Rose, early locust, black and red berries..wattles are not included.
Wattles would be best had from willow, and larch, birch and that other one that escapes me...oh, ok, sycamore.
Izzat what yer shootin for ( pun in tended)?
Most folks call it a sling-blade