Some of you from the "Deep South" may recognize this. A pretty good cutting tool.
Andy
The name "woodsman's pal" pops into my head but I know the hook is not right for that.
It looks like a customized brushook. Used those back in the woods of Virginia long time ago. Great tool for doing topo x-sections.
Does it involve cotton raising?
sling blade? though some folks calls it a Kaiser blade.....
I was at my father's house a couple of weeks ago and found a few of these hanging on the wall of a barn. They haven't been used in at least 50 years and maybe more. Those in Louisiana, Mississippi, south Alabama, south Georgia and Florida may have seen them used. It was used when sugar cane was harvested by hand. The "ears" on the back side of the blade are used to strip the leaves off the stalk and the edge cuts the cane. The cane was then crushed and boiled down to make cane syrup. I personally prefer cane syrup to maple but it's getting hard to find decent cane syrup these days. This one is going to be permanently retired and saved as a relic of a time gone by.
Andy
A variety of a cane knife?
GB (from almost 45 degrees north)
(Oops - looks like Andy was posting while I was typing)
'less your a tryin' ta be really tricky, I'd say it's a...
Andy beat both of us, Glenn.
Dan Patterson, post: 392241, member: 1179 wrote: sling blade? though some folks calls it a Kaiser blade.....
So do you like "them french fried taters?"
Andy Bruner, post: 392249, member: 1123 wrote: I was at my father's house a couple of weeks ago and found a few of these hanging on the wall of a barn. They haven't been used in at least 50 years and maybe more. Those in Louisiana, Mississippi, south Alabama, south Georgia and Florida may have seen them used. It was used when sugar cane was harvested by hand. The "ears" on the back side of the blade are used to strip the leaves off the stalk and the edge cuts the cane. The cane was then crushed and boiled down to make cane syrup. I personally prefer cane syrup to maple but it's getting hard to find decent cane syrup these days. This one is going to be permanently retired and saved as a relic of a time gone by.
Andy
I think that you can still find some cane knives around here. That one looks customized. We had to customize our brush hooks (Ditch bank blades) for Corp safety requirements.
Guy Townes, post: 392255, member: 11463 wrote: So do you like "them french fried taters?"
mmmmmhhhhhhhmmmmmm
Looks like it could be related to an English Hedge knife
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billhook
Cheers,
Derek
Adam, post: 392261, member: 8900 wrote: mmmmmhhhhhhhmmmmmm
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