i think these are either for: harvesting corn/tobacco or some other farm-y, field-y stuff, OR they are for lopping the heads of people you hate.
any clue what they are for…?
the curvier one seems to say USFS on it–which i would think stands for United States Forestry Service?
i have them set aside…for…you know. when the zombies…
curious what they are.
They are two different types of brush hook.
crowmanyclouds is correct that the second one could be called a Kaiser blade, or a bill or a bank blade or a gazillion other names. And the first one could be called abrush thinner, and many, many other names for that as well. And there many other variations in construction.
But the generic name for all these types of implement is just “brush hook”.
As for what they are for: they are designed to clear light woody vegetation. So they get used in weed control, for making temporary roads, constructing firebreaks. Pretty much anywhere that you want to remove plants that are too big to mow and too small and numerous for an axe or chainsaw.
i have…oddly…never seen that movie.
so are both variation on briar axes?
what’s this “slasher tool” links take you to?
awesome. i love that i can need to know something and then know it in like a few minutes.
thanks.
Not to disagree with any of the above (there will be any number of valid names for implements like this). In the UK, those would be called a long handled billhooks.
A briar axe is another variation on the brush hook. It’s similar to your fist photo, but the blade is longer and usually narrower with less of a hook. It’s lighter and easier to cut a wide swathe but less useful against larger saplings.
These were mentioned prominantly in an old thread of mine, Edged tools that could be used as improvised weapons.
Keep one in your car’s boot?
They’d certainly be pretty handy in a zombie scenario - I think better than a sharpened spade, which is often cited as close to ideal.
Heh…a chance for my misspent youth wasting time reading the back pages of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to pay off and I’m too late…
I’ve seen the second sold in hardware stores as a “bank blade”. It’s used for brush clearing, particularly along irrigation ditches and such. Hence the “bank”.