Can someone tell me what this is?

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Found this among a box of hand tools. It has a hatchet handle and the overall head is about 9 to 10 inches tip to tip with the blade part being about 3 inches wide.

 
Ice axe or ice harvesting axe. I could be wrong though, type in Ice harvesting axe in google and you'll get pictures of things like that but some are just labeled Ice axe.
 
I've got one also. Haven't found a use for it here in Ga, but it looks good among the other axes on the wall.
 
It's an inverse polarity detronimator with quasi-phasic induction. Left-handed if I'm not mistaken. Either that or an ice axe.
 
Square_peg said:
It's an inverse polarity detronimator with quasi-phasic induction. Left-handed if I'm not mistaken. Either that or an ice axe.
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:D

I actually found some ice tongs on the shore of a lowered lake last year. I donated them to a local museum.
 
Just another voice to chime in that it's an ice axe. I could actually use one of those for clearing compacted snow drifts from around the mailbox during the winter. Hmmmm....
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
Just another voice to chime in that it's an ice axe. I could actually use one of those for clearing compacted snow drifts from around the mailbox during the winter. Hmmmm....
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Now that you mention it, I think I need one also. I don't know why I couldn't see that I needed one before now.
 
Before the electric refrigerator people kept perishable food in iceboxes. A lot of the ice that went in ice boxes was harvested in large blocks during the winter by cutting ice on lakes and storing the ice in sheds that were as insulated as possible, with sawdust between the layers. In the warm seasons the large blocks were shipped to the cities and sold whole or in smaller pieces to keep iceboxes cool.
 
The farmer next to me while I was growing up still maintained an ice house because he had no electricity. In late winter he'd saw blocks out of the river with a one-handled saw, load then on a draught horse-drawn sleigh and then stack them in a small thick-wall shed next to the house and cover everything with about 12 inches of sawdust. It was pretty amazing to me, as a 10 year old, to see ice in mid-summer. His were already cut to size and I do not recall seeing any sort of special axe lying around but I would think a very rounded profile version would less shatter the blocks than would a straight.
 
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