Axe - what have we?

I've had great luck piloting holes into metal wedges, tapping, and then using some bolsters and a cross beam to draw it out enough. Kind of like a gear/pulley puller for a car. You won't have enough clearance to pull it all the way out. Once you get it proud, though, you can use a punch to knock it left and right enough to loosen it for pliers removal.

You can do the same thing with wood wedges and wood screws if the wedge is still hard enough.

Doesn't always work, but when it does it's a huge giant relief.
 
Some news. Found one marking on it, 32 on the bottom. Nothing on the sides. Top has something, but I don't think it's a manufacturing mark, more likely just some dings that "kind of" look like letters. The haft may be salvageable, but has a crack in it. I'm going to re-hang it anyway.

The corrugated wedges were far worse than expected. There were about six of them, about 1/2" each, stacked on top of each other. I was able to get the top two out by whittling (thanks S Square_peg ) and using needle nose vise grips, then drifting it with a large bolt, then prying the others with a screwdriver. The slot is a mess, but like I said, I'll give it a bid.

1bKQw4j.jpg

MoGKYUx.jpg

CHUKALh.jpg
 
S&N uses(always has i think) a fraction. Here are a few examples. 20190118_221745.jpg
Mann edge tool used more italicized numbers. Such as this15478684789831038390942574703832.jpg Your numbers look similar to a Rogers mfg co. 15478686296011582517413284608219.jpgHard to tell though! Could be a Kelly too. Looks like a quality axe though!
I'm curious as to what this stamp was on top of my Rogers connie. It's mostly worn off and i wonder what it used to be? 15478689372842355959742651042923.jpgI hope some of those images can help you figure out what yours is!
 
Yankee Josh said:
S&N uses(always has i think) a fraction. Here are a few examples. View attachment 1056960
Mann edge tool used more italicized numbers. Such as thisView attachment 1056961 Your numbers look similar to a Rogers mfg co. View attachment 1056962Hard to tell though! Could be a Kelly too. Looks like a quality axe though!
I'm curious as to what this stamp was on top of my Rogers connie. It's mostly worn off and i wonder what it used to be? View attachment 1056965I hope some of those images can help you figure out what yours is!
Click to expand...
Rogers on the left Mann on the right.
Is that a FO stamp on that Rogers?
 
garry3 said:
Rogers on the left Mann on the right.
Is that a FO stamp on that Rogers?
Click to expand...
It is an FO stamp. Do you know the significance of FO?
Also, Is there a stamp behind the eye on the top of your Rogers?
I have some newer Mann's that have a regular font. I think the example i picked to demonstrate their stamp is an older rockaway. I have several newer(relatively speaking) Mann's and the numbers are regular like the one you pictured.

Sorry I'm half asleep and was a little repetitive there. Haha. I'm hitting the sack before i type more dumb things...
 
I have came across that FO stamp before. I think they were F-O. Seems like they were on Fultons or something. I will dig around a little.
I thought this Mann was WW2, but I guess I just thought that because it has the U.S.A. stamp and was covered in a hundred coats of olive drab paint. Maybe the True American stamp would be a better indicator of age?
The Rogers has a small H on the top of the poll.

 
Square_peg said:
5-20 growth rings per inch is optimal for hickory.
Click to expand...
What I mean to convey, without resorting to generalities and platitudes, is the side view showing the flat grain exposure is insufficient in and of itself to make a judgement, it only gives an inducement to look further. If it turns out on an inspection from other perspectives that a significant percentage of the total number of growth rings, (a broad dispersement) cross from one side of the handle to its opposite, (run-out), the handle might not be such a good one. If the rings are tightly bunched to the side pictured, (or across the cross-sectional view) this handle could, so long as ±2/3 of the rings are continuous - butt to head - well be acceptable. It's just to say, an end grain inspection provides more credibility to any claims about (this) handle material.
 
Yankee Josh said:
Your numbers look similar to a Rogers mfg co. View attachment 1056962
Click to expand...
Looking through "Axe Manufacturers & Major Purveyors in Southern New England", which is my only real resource but has few pictures, I had considered Rogers because of the proximity to where it was found. However, I also thought it might be a Stanley, and here's why. At some point, they used an orange and black label. In the picture that @Agent_H filtered, the red looks more orange. The research continues.
 
Malpaso said:
Looking through "Axe Manufacturers & Major Purveyors in Southern New England", which is my only real resource but has few pictures, I had considered Rogers because of the proximity to where it was found. However, I also thought it might be a Stanley, and here's why. At some point, they used an orange and black label. In the picture that @Agent_H filtered, the red looks more orange. The research continues.
Click to expand...
It's difficult to positively identify an axe just by the font. They might have changed at some point! As evidenced but the difference between the Mann i pictured and the Mann garry3 pictured. Sometimes you just end up with a hunch. I have some i feel i have positively identified even though i can't be 100% sure. So you think it was a red label and not painted red? I don't have any full size Stanley's to reference so i don't know if they stamped the weight under the poll. Hopefully someone who has one can chime in.
 
They don't, sorry. I happen to possess a Stanley axe (my first single bit actually) and it doesn't have an under the poll stamp. Now that I'm thinking about it, my Stanley looks an awful lot like my paper label Homestead. Could Collins have made Stanley axes? Sorry 'bout the thread derailment, Malpaso.
 
Last edited:
A17 said:
They don't, sorry. I happen to possess a Stanley axe (my first single bit actually) and it doesn't have an under the poll stamp. Now that I'm thinking about it, my Stanley looks and awful lot like my paper label Homestead. Could Collins have made Stanley axes? Sorry 'bout the thread derailment, Malpaso.
Click to expand...
No derail at all, this is all good info.
 
I have a couple Roger's Connie's, one being a faded red superior. The numbers may jive, and I will check and post...but I believe thru some of the research I have gone thru, that Collins made Roger's. Roger's being a local hardware store here in the New Hartford area back a time ago...
 
This morning I was wondering if you had an older Homestead...Rogers is a possibility too. I think it looks Collins...but what does that mean really;)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top