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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: bird on November 16, 2015, 01:06:36 PM

Title: age of this?
Post by: bird on November 16, 2015, 01:06:36 PM

Would this be called a hatchet? Does anyone have any info to share .... I know nothing about it!!

Title: Re: age of this?
Post by: gibsontool on November 16, 2015, 03:35:28 PM

When I was a kid one of my first jobs was a helper on the construction of a grain elevator just north of Calgary Alberta. There was 4 or 5 carpenters on the job and they all had these and called them cribbing hammers. Don't know if that's the right name but I've heard other people call them that.

Title: Re: age of this?
Post by: Bill Houghton on November 16, 2015, 04:47:31 PM

It would certainly be called "rusty."

Title: Re: age of this?
Post by: JUNK-MAN on November 16, 2015, 07:34:40 PM

Looks similar to one I found in my woods a few years back, mine is alot more rusted away though.

Title: Re: age of this?
Post by: keykeeper on November 16, 2015, 10:24:54 PM

Actual term used in most old catalogs is claw hatchet.

Title: Re: age of this?
Post by: gibsontool on November 16, 2015, 10:53:56 PM

That does fit better than cribbing hammer.

Title: Re: age of this?
Post by: turnnut on November 17, 2015, 09:37:30 AM

claw hatchet is also the referance that I have come accross in catalogs.

Title: Re: age of this?
Post by: bird on November 17, 2015, 10:53:47 AM

Quote from: Bill Houghton on November 16, 2015, 04:47:31 PM

It would certainly be called "rusty."

Yeah, I got that part:) !!!

Title: Re: age of this?
Post by: Bill Houghton on November 17, 2015, 09:18:19 PM

So, given the rust levels, this will go up on That Auction Place as "rare and collectible," right?   :grin: :grin: :grin:

Title: Re: age of this?
Post by: bird on November 18, 2015, 02:38:08 PM

Absolutely! !! It's one of a kind!