Posted: 9/10/2015 12:49:16 PM EDT
So what is it? It takes an Ax handle. I know it is for trench/hole digging. Made to cut roots and remove large rocks. Thanks! PITA45 
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It's a Pulaski, make famous by that Pulaski guy from N. Idaho (1910'ish) and the early days of the Forest Service.
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I've heard it called an adz as well. Nope. An adz(e) is a woodworking tool. Best kept razor sharp, it's not for use in the soil. Although I have 2 of them that some numbnuts used as hoes 100 years ago. Traditionally, you stood with you feet in wooden nail kegs while using one so if it slipped you wouldn't lose a leg. ETA: Also, a mattock uses the same oval-shaped handle as a pick. The adze has a tapered square eye for a handle that I don't believe is shared with any other tool. |
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Nope. An adz(e) is a woodworking tool. Best kept razor sharp, it's not for use in the soil. Although I have 2 of them that some numbnuts used as hoes 100 years ago. Traditionally, you stood with you feet in wooden nail kegs while using one so if it slipped you wouldn't lose a leg. ETA: Also, a mattock uses the same oval-shaped handle as a pick. The adze has a tapered square eye for a handle that I don't believe is shared with any other tool. Quoted:
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I've heard it called an adz as well. Nope. An adz(e) is a woodworking tool. Best kept razor sharp, it's not for use in the soil. Although I have 2 of them that some numbnuts used as hoes 100 years ago. Traditionally, you stood with you feet in wooden nail kegs while using one so if it slipped you wouldn't lose a leg. ETA: Also, a mattock uses the same oval-shaped handle as a pick. The adze has a tapered square eye for a handle that I don't believe is shared with any other tool. Yes it does. I have use these most of my life. But for the life of me could not remember what they where call! I had all way called it a MALL (Poor spelling best I can do! Now does handle have to be fitted to the head as an ax does? Or do you just drive the head onto the oval till it stops? I have more then the one which need a handle! Thanks for all the info everyone!!! PITA45
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It takes a pick handle not an axe and it slips on from the grip end... I've never seen a wedge used on one and I've got 2 or 3 of them. Truth. You drop the head onto the upside-down handle and tap it on a rock or something to tighten it. The handles are meant to be instantly detachable for transport or replacement. Just a friction fit. But it'll work better if you can get the eye down to bare metal. |
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Nope. An adz(e) is a woodworking tool. Best kept razor sharp, it's not for use in the soil. Although I have 2 of them that some numbnuts used as hoes 100 years ago. Traditionally, you stood with you feet in wooden nail kegs while using one so if it slipped you wouldn't lose a leg. ETA: Also, a mattock uses the same oval-shaped handle as a pick. The adze has a tapered square eye for a handle that I don't believe is shared with any other tool. Quoted:
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I've heard it called an adz as well. Nope. An adz(e) is a woodworking tool. Best kept razor sharp, it's not for use in the soil. Although I have 2 of them that some numbnuts used as hoes 100 years ago. Traditionally, you stood with you feet in wooden nail kegs while using one so if it slipped you wouldn't lose a leg. ETA: Also, a mattock uses the same oval-shaped handle as a pick. The adze has a tapered square eye for a handle that I don't believe is shared with any other tool. yep, adze was a wood tool, generally the big ones were for making or truing flats on logs, basically turning round logs into square/rectangular beams. Picture a rough log laying between two other logs or beams. You walk with your feet on the outside ones and swing your adze between your feet on the log being worked on. |
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Pick/Hoe Head Mattock. I'm guessing you have never worked on a farm or dug a ditch.  <Grin> Op -> mattock I use the 'axe' end to chop around and loosen rocks. Sometimes to chop roots but have found if you un-earth a root, loppers are far more efficient. You also use the 'axe' end for squaring up the corners of your trench. You want to blunt sharpen both ends. You'r chopping dirt! Polaski is a totally different tool. It is more meant for above ground chopping of brush and grubbing stocks to ground level. I was in the #1 polaski position of a wild-lands fire crew. I have HOURS behind one - chop and move - chop and move. Lots of work but made GREAT money - we got fire hazard pay, flight pay (Heli-Attack crew), and food and lodging per-deim even though they fed us 3 squares and we slept on the ground)... 'Black forest means green wallet' was the mantra. Bummer to see though.... |