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  1. 12th January 2010, 09:20 AM #1
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    Every day on ePay it seems there appear tools like the following described as "rabbit trap setting tool":
    http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ANTIQUE-RABBI...item5638ba2fdd

    But it looks like an adze to me. Did people use adzes to set traps? Or do the sellers just not know what it is?
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  3. 12th January 2010, 09:30 AM #2
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    Rabbit traps are set in the ground so it is more like a small maddick. Rabbit traps also have a steel peg so the animal does not escape with the trap. So the hammer end is to drive that peg into the ground.

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    It's a mattock alright, except it's had an end ground down. Have to give it to some people on ebay though for the best description of something that they think it is but aren't even close.

    Would have been better if they called it a whatyercallit, at least they would have been right.
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    I used to have several of these. It's a brick-cleaning hammer and here.
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    I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.

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    Well there you go, ask a question and somewhere along the line you'll get the right answer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Woodwould View Post
    I used to have several of these. It's a brick-cleaning hammer and here.
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    Just looking at your links, the brick cleaning hammer seems to have a pick at the end while the rabbit trap setter seems to have a broad blade. Is that just an optical illusion?
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    I agree with WW, that one looks like a brick hammer, but many years ago we used to use a tool that was sold as a rabbit trap setter. It had a small hammer on one side and a wide mattock (about twice as wide as the one in the OP) on the other side for enlarging the burrow opening to position the trap. It had a timber handle that was always chewed up from setting off the traps before retrieving them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jmk89 View Post
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    Just looking at your links, the brick cleaning hammer seems to have a pick at the end while the rabbit trap setter seems to have a broad blade. Is that just an optical illusion?
    It's an illusion. I purposely posted the first link which is a clearer picture while the second link has a collaborative description.

    If the hammer did have a point, then it would be a geologist's hammer.
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    hi,its definately not a trappers tool,they have a much wider end to scrap soil over foot plate and to chip away a surface to mount trap,they also have a small v shaped notch in the side of the body to bend and adjust trip tounge to desired angle and a small hole(about 6mm) to straighten pegs.cheers danielson
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