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Nice I want one of those too! HeheHere is one I just picked up. A Plumb 5# construction axe.
Nice I want one of those too! HeheHere is one I just picked up. A Plumb 5# construction axe.
Square_peg
One of those Plumbs looks familiar !
Thanks for this. That's enlightening!. I guess there's more to visual indicator cues of identifying tempered polls than meets the eye. Hardened polls aren't supposed to mushroom! Your and my axe are the exact same critter except the one I have has never really been used and the poll is still perfect. A file bites on a corner but no different than it does at the blade end. Square_Peg's pictured rafting Walters exhibits deformation; I wonder if this sort of thing is from half century of constant use (my 45 year old Estwing hammer doesn't have an unspoiled face anymore either) or whether the degree of hardness might have been relaxed somewhat at poll ends.Thats a nice looking Plumb, 300six.
Since this is focus thread. Here is a Plumb 3.2 that I have. Like 300sixs above, this one has markings on the unconventional side. Do bevels indicate hardened polls the majority of the time?
This one looks like it was used more as a hammer than an axe. It has mushrooming and a couple of chips out of the poll. Its also marked 11 on the eye and another 1 (possibly another number next to it)set at a right angle to the 11.
Does it look like a rafting ax that got used hard or does the damage look more like an unhardened poll. Just on first look I guess havent taken a file to it.
Loggers transporting logs rafts downriver used them for driving the log dogs used to chain the raft together.
Ha ha that's a great picture of that log raft, what is that a little doggie hanging on the peavey?
If the guy had a street organ it would have surly passed for a dancing monkey.