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30th April 2009, 08:48 AM #1Deceased
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odd tool name and use???
what was this tool called and what was it used for??? it was on ebay recently.
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30th April 2009, 09:04 AM #2
An adze or adz (pronounced /ædz/) is a tool used for smoothing rough-cut wood in hand woodworking.
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30th April 2009, 09:33 AM #3Deceased
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thats what i thought Steve also ,the business edge of this adze is sharpend wrong i thought they were like a chisel sharpen, and the hole in the blade what was its purpose ??
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30th April 2009, 09:38 AM #4
I reckon that particular specimen is more like general bash-around tool for breaking up stuff. It doesn't have the nice curve usually associated with adzes, to chop and carve. The hole would indicate it could be used for pulling nails or spikes maybe, or stripping wire even.
The fact that the edge has been sharpened like that gives me the impression who ever owned it wasn't interested in working timber with at all, maybe in the garden!
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30th April 2009, 09:49 AM #5Senior Member
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A lot of adzes ended up as garden mattocks when the Hargen saw ,and then the chain saw made sleeper cutting easier.
This tool could have been some sort of adze, and the hole may be for pulling the rail spikes, but the abrupt angle would make it a brute to use.
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30th April 2009, 09:55 AM #6
I dont think the angle of the blade is right for an adze either. The hole is probably the give away and it looks as though it has spent some of its life chipping weeds. Some sort of breaking down tool maybe, or puller, possibly a railways tool. Is there a makers mark of any sort?
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What about a variant of the ubiquitous rabbit trap setter ?
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30th April 2009, 02:23 PM #8
Yeah the angle is wrong for an adze, whilst the hole could be used for a sleeper dog puller but I doubt that it would have the leverage.
A shingle makers tool? general demolition?
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30th April 2009, 02:39 PM #9
I have to take a different tack. I think it is a roof slater's hammer.
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30th April 2009, 06:37 PM #11
I'm with pawnhead, it's an adze hammer.
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odd tool name and use
It could be a tool used by demo people to pull up floor boards or bridge construction people to lift planking and or decking, the hole to pull out spikes. It looks like a adaption of a spalling hammer or a hammer to drive spikes.
Mac
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1st May 2009, 02:01 PM #13
It looks like it is designed to get under and pry things up and the hole is shaped to pull nails. How big is it
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