A strange little hatchet.

[Tengu]

no marks...is it a carving hatchet?

I noticed that though the poll is sturdy it has mushroomed due to bashing...evidently not hardened.

 

[Everything Mac]

For coal?

Andy

 

[fishfish]

coal hammer is a bit different,this looks like it was made from a splitting wedge.

 

[shaggystu]

coal hammer is a bit different,this looks like it was made from a splitting wedge.

my thoughts exactly, it looks like someone taken a splitting maul and re-forged the edge out to give it a longer cutting edge. although i cold be completely wrong

cheers

stuart

 

[Beefy0978]

Certainly from the days when we didn't just pop to b&whatsit to buy a new one....

 

[Everything Mac]

It's a bit on the small side for a splitting mall don't you think?

Even a re-forged one.

A few more pics would help Tengu! What's the profile like?

Could easily be an old smith made kindling hatchet. It almost looks like a cold cutter, indeed if the head was a bit more mushroomed I'd be tempted to go with that. Is the edge a bit blue? Looks it in the picture.

Andy

 

[ged]

Difficult to tell from the photo but I'm not sure that the head is as fat across the eye as a maul would normally be, and a wedge wouldn't have an eye would it?.

Nice tool though, I could find a use for it.


Anyone here used one of these...?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Cho...862?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a22c680be

 

[Shovel]

Looks slightly like a broad hatchet, for hewing wood, because of the big blade that's offset to the side.

 

[Tengu]

I dont think its a maul; the poll would be hardened, woulnt it?

Ill get more pics up later; very busy today

 

[santaman2000]

I dont think its a maul; the poll would be hardened, woulnt it?...

It might have been hardened originally; but lost it's temper when a previous owner burned out a broken handle to replace it.

 

[Jomo]

i know a blacksmith who told me that the easiest way to make a good hatchet was to get hold of an old lump hammer and work one end of it which looks kinda similar to what's happened to this little creation,also if the poll had been hardened then it would be more prone to fracturing and chipping so couldn't really see why a smithy would do that to an axe poll