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17th December 2017, 10:06 AM #1
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What Do We Have Here?
This is a tool owned by one of my neighbours. Is it a meat cleaver (double handed)? Is it a cross between a froe and an axe? Is it a proprietary tool or blacksmith made? It is about 600mm long and the double bevel is perfectly even. The blade would be about 8mm thick. As you may imagine, it is quite heavy.
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It was the neighbours 80th birthday and we did consider another use...
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but decided against it in the end.
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17th December 2017, 10:09 AM #2
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Happy birthday young fellow.
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17th December 2017, 11:50 AM #3
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Commercial meat cleaver? Any abattoir's close by?
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17th December 2017, 12:27 PM #4
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Could definitely be a meat cleaver. With plenty of room for two hands (big hands) it could easily remove the head from a beast. A bit like Texas, this area would have had many abattoirs at one time, although they are now concentrated in the cities.
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17th December 2017, 12:53 PM #5
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Shingle cutter or slate roofing tool,
Just to throw them out there.
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17th December 2017, 01:00 PM #6
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Definitely not a slate cutter as it doesn't have the 'hook' on the leading edge.
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17th December 2017, 03:32 PM #7
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Here, shingles are sawn goods. However, split woods are called shakes.
Might be a shake splitter's tool.
I had my froe made like that one with a tang parallel to the edge.
I needed that shape for how I split carving wood.
What really puzzles me is the double bevel.
The single sided bevel of a froe like mine faces the slab to be split off
so that the other side of the froe drives straight down the block.
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17th December 2017, 06:13 PM #8
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I reckon thinking abattoir is probably the best bet, but not a meat cleaver, how about a bone-cleaver? Before the age of powered splitting saws, they used weapons like this for splitting carcases down the vertebral column. You'd want a more comfortable handle than that if you were using it all day, I'd say, but maybe for a small country-town abattoir doing only few beasts every couple of days, it'd be ok. And of course, real men wouldn't feel any pain....
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