What is this Keen Kutter tool?

[lebaron]

Anyone know this tool. Some kind of scraper, I guess. Blade is 8" long by 2-1/4" with no markings. The tang is marked Keen Kutter and the handle is marked to, with a number KXGS5. Overall length is 22" but I think the handle has been shortend.

[anglesmith]

My guess would be a weeder that cuts off the roots under the soil surface. It should have a long handle.
Graeme

[Aunt Phil]

Looks like a stirrup hoe.

[anglesmith]

An light hoe is certainly a possibility, it all depends on  the angle of the blade relative to the handle. We probably need another photo? There were so many variations in garden tools, from country to country and in England even from county to county.
Graeme

[lebaron]

The angle is 30 degrees.

[lebaron]

Found one that looks like it. A Dutch hoe.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GARDEN-TOOL-SOLID-DUTCH-HOE-HEAD-14cm-CARBON-STEEL-WITHOUT-HANDLE-U3100-/230791141539?pt=UK_Home_Garden_GardenEquipment_HandTools_SM&hash=item35bc3958a3

[Bus]

1918 E. C. Simmons KeenKutter Catalog has it listed as a "Railroad Scuffle Hoe". $18.00 a  dozen. The 1935 Simmons catalog still lists them but pictures a different style.

[lebaron]

Thanks for everybody's help. The front of the blade has an edge for pushing and the back has en edge for pulling. Seem like the Scuffle and Dutch hoes are basically the same. Theres alot of different sizes and shapes of hoes out there. Thanks for pinning it down.

[Billman49]

In the UK this is a Dutch hoe - they were made with rivetted blades, and also replaceable blades that fitted into a slot. Most had tangs that fitted into a hole in the handle (strengthened by a ferrule) - typical handle length 5 ft - socket fitting hoes heads were also made... Used by gardeners for general weeding.