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Posted: 11/20/2023 11:00:03 AM EST
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I love watching those old (and sometimes not so old) videos of people using old implements.
People were in good shape back then. |
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Posted: 11/20/2023 11:11:25 AM EST
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Posted: 11/20/2023 11:31:04 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Slingblade!!! Like them fellers use on side of the road. |
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Posted: 11/20/2023 11:31:50 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not in MS, bruv. This is a sling blade https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jAkAAOSwsulgY2ts/s-l1600.jpg Now imagine my confusion at the movie and the tool he used to do the deed. I always called that a sling blade as well. |
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Posted: 11/20/2023 11:37:45 AM EST
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Just because it kind of, somewhat, but not really fits in this thread. I found this NOS in a hardware store in Lynchburg.
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Posted: 11/20/2023 12:02:14 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Some folks call it a slingblade. I call it a Kaiser blade. |
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Posted: 11/20/2023 1:21:13 PM EST
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Bush Axe
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Posted: 11/20/2023 1:37:13 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: i'd call that a sandvik Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Bush axe I have one I have owned so long I am on the second handle. It is a bush axe. This is what I call a brush axe or bush axe. What do you call this tool? https://i.ibb.co/ThRt0gb/IMG-0213.jpg i'd call that a sandvik That's what we called them when I did a summer with the forestry department. With a fresh blade they are awesome. |
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Posted: 11/20/2023 2:22:12 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As a surveyor with decades of experience cutting lines…I call it a bad day. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/190943/FAACD994-FC0C-484B-918F-AA5F2A75B0A0-3033651.jpg I keep this exact one in my truck and have always referred to it as a brush hook. I guess I’ll have to start calling it a bank blade now. Appreciate the correction, and the trail work manual is a great source, thank you! I don't think I've ever seen that awkward thing in OP, but the item above, in south LA, is a "brush knife". It'll take care of everything from grass, vines, trees up to 9"or so, and every now and then a water moccasin. |
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Posted: 11/20/2023 3:35:44 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not in MS, bruv. This is a sling blade https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jAkAAOSwsulgY2ts/s-l1600.jpg Now imagine my confusion at the movie and the tool he used to do the deed. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: This is a sling blade. They have a straighter handle instead of an axe style handle. Usually have 2 or 3 rivets or screws. The head about the same thickness as a machete. https://i.ibb.co/hYWvFGD/IMG-0214.jpg This is a sling blade https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jAkAAOSwsulgY2ts/s-l1600.jpg Now imagine my confusion at the movie and the tool he used to do the deed. That was just "grass blade", even when it was only supported on one side like an "L" with the serrated blade sticking out horizontally. Doesn't resemble a lawnmower blade at all, does it? What we used it for, just the same. Kids are easier than pushing a motorized machine around.  |
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Posted: 11/20/2023 3:45:49 PM EST
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Brush axe. I have my grandfather's, but I never remember him call it anything. So not sure where I got the name.
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Posted: 11/20/2023 3:54:36 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I love watching those old (and sometimes not so old) videos of people using old implements. People were in good shape back then. Back then people in general did more manual labor and were in better shape. I ran my first half marathon last Sunday and was sore for a couple days in my legs and hips. Yesterday I scrubbed the tub with Comet and cleaned the bathroom swapping out the shower curtain etc., cleaned the cats room floor, box, etc., stripped beds and did all the bedding at the laundry mat then hung all our cloths and folded the rest plus made the beds, changed the oil in her car plus rotated the tire, topped of the PSI and fluids, then ran down to the car wash and washed it. Holy shit, I'm more sore today than last Monday. When I look at a tool like that all I can think of is if the tendonitis will be in my elbows again, or somewhere else. I call it pain. |
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Posted: 11/20/2023 3:55:31 PM EST
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Brush hook, or Bill.
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Posted: 11/20/2023 3:57:16 PM EST
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Bush/brush axe......dependant on blood alcohol level and missing toes.
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Posted: 11/20/2023 4:06:04 PM EST
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Brush Hook.
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Posted: 11/20/2023 4:17:11 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I enjoyed that. Thanks! Quote HistoryQuoted: I enjoyed that. Thanks! Something about that video is just cool as hell to watch. He makes it look easy and hearkens back to a time when people didn't have time to click around on the Internet. Some of those videos are actually relaxing as well, like that one. In a "Glad I don't have to do that now" way, but the quality of the hedges just isn't the same when they're squarely cut off branches that keep sprouting every few months, instead of taking care of it every few years as in that video. |
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Posted: 11/20/2023 4:18:46 PM EST
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Blisters .
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Posted: 11/20/2023 6:21:12 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Blisters . Gloves! |
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Posted: 11/20/2023 8:03:27 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We called the tool on the left a Yo-Yo. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I heard both of these tools pictured called sling blades. https://i.ibb.co/R2KFZWz/IMG-0221.jpg We called the tool on the left a Yo-Yo. |
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Posted: 11/20/2023 8:43:58 PM EST
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Three pages to figure out what a bush axe is? Dang.
Went to work part time in NC at 16 as a landscaper...in 1977. I spent enough time on the operator end of one of those fuckers to know  $1.75 an hour to start. NC generously classified nursery and landscape work as agricultural labor. My boss played on the line with Bart Starr at the University of Alabama. He once told me, "I hire strong backs and weak minds".
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Posted: 11/20/2023 8:48:14 PM EST
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Brazil nut?
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Posted: 11/20/2023 8:49:29 PM EST
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Bush axe.
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