Metal detecting axes

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I Found another axe head metal detecting a freshly Mulched cornfield last week.
https://imgur.com/a/UyxYgXu
https://imgur.com/a/BcrkRQi
i decided to leave the black oxcide and get rid of the red rust. I want that BA buckin billey ray style axe head. But i knew i wouldnt be able to find a makers mark if i didnt that. I figured someone else later on down the line could shave the black oxcide off if they want to find out what it was.
https://imgur.com/rtypD5u
so i am cleaning it up and then i see this
https://imgur.com/S5PFOtO
it says woodslasher!
Its part of the kelli axe pre 60s because it doesnt have the ridges in the eye.

Its a 2.2lbs boys axe from a rural south alabama 125acre corn field.
https://imgur.com/7COLkBv
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its almost ready to hang and sharpen.
 
That is a neat find! I have found a couple of old knives and other tools in the woods but never an axe.
 
This is my 3rd axe. I am always super excited to find them. More than knives. I have found really old barlow knives and others but i cant date them.
 
Cool find.
By the early 60's Wood Slasher's were no longer stamped and the cheeks became pretty flat on them also.
I can't put an exact date on them changes but that one predates that stuff.
 
We pick up a couple every year during planting. Most times the eyes are partially rusted through or dinged terribly by a disc.
 
When we are planting rice it’s on dry flat ground ant they are typically partially exposed.
If they are really gone we will toss em but I’ve got more than a handful of heads and wedges that we’ve found.



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I believe these last two are wrought iron you can see the grain and how 1 was wrapped and I can only assume the other eye was drifted. The vinegar soak revealed how much hardened bit is left in them.
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3fifty7 said:
When we are planting rice it’s on dry flat ground ant they are typically partially exposed.
If they are really gone we will toss em but I’ve got more than a handful of heads and wedges that we’ve found.



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I believe these last two are wrought iron you can see the grain and how 1 was wrapped and I can only assume the other eye was drifted. The vinegar soak revealed how much hardened bit is left in them.
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I just got caught up on your threads. Very cool my friend. I learned a few things. Ive used vinager on an old 1890s axe head i found detecting in tennessee. Its wrought iron wrapped as well. Do you not metal detect your fields? Id be alll over them. I just got permission from the farmer after 5 years to hunt deer hogs and metalndetecting it. And its all untouched.
 
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No one in the family metal detects and I can only imagine how many hits you would get from broken bolts, chain, springs and other things you don’t want. We have had guests come out on a few places that were previously old plantations.

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3fifty7 said:
No one in the family metal detects and I can only imagine how many hits you would get from broken bolts, chain, springs and other things you don’t want. We have had guests come out on a few places that were previously old plantations.

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Two bucks a day was probably a pretty good wage in 1871, that loss might have been felt.
 
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