CCC axe & tool thread.

[Square_peg]

As I think about that era of American history, my take is that the power and money crowd got us into that dire situation but the working class got us out!

Ain't that the truth. There is no power like the American worker.

 

[Square_peg]

A lot of our FS district was built by the CCC, Including the barn I work out of. Pretty simple, good quality work. Great materials like clear old growth redwood and Doug fir for both framing and paneling.

A lot of beautiful stonework .....bridges and retaining walls on the highway down the river canyon etc. Still looks good, although much has been lost to highway widening projects.

They did some amazing work in Mt. Rainier National Park that still stands strong today. Very skilled people were leading those crews.

 

[Square_peg]

I have but here is an 8lb Skookum sledge hammer with the WPA mark.

'Skookum' is an NW First People word meaning strong, good or powerful. It's Chinookan. It's well woven into the NW vernacular but virtually unheard of outside this area.

 

[ithinkverydeeply]

I cleaned up this saw handle and think it is probably worth contributing to this thread. An Atkins #20 with a CCC handle, stamped “?S-CCC”. Perhaps read US-CCC?

It’s got a pretty cool mechanism to tighten it.

 

[John A. Larsen]

I have a WWI, "T" handled entrenching tool given to me by a friend, whose Brother was issued it while in the CCC, along with a WWI metal canteen and cover that he was also issued. Not marked as far as I remember, will check to see. John

 

[John A. Larsen]

Not sure about the CCC e-tool. I checked it and the only marking is on the metal collar that goes around the wooden shaft and it is just a "U.S." The canvas cover that hooks the e-tool to your web belt is marked "W.L. Dumas MFG Co 1943". I supposed he could have gotten the cover at a later date, no way to tell. The metal canteen and cover are both marked "1918" so it could well have been used by the CCC. John

 

[FLINT77]

I've got an Iron City Tool Works 60" wedge point crow bar that is stamped SCS 9. The SCS was the Soil Conservation Service which supervised a bunch of CCC camps. SCS 9 was a CCC camp near Seneca Lake NY and operated from 1939-1942.

 

[Miller '72]

I've got an Iron City Tool Works 60" wedge point crow bar that is stamped SCS 9. The SCS was the Soil Conservation Service which supervised a bunch of CCC camps. SCS 9 was a CCC camp near Seneca Lake NY and operated from 1939-1942.

I hope to learn some specifics on this one i recently brought home and rehung today.
Just searching out this thread to post in it, i have learned from you about the SCS. Perhaps the 6 or the 13 are references to a camp and or location.
Thank you.

My 6lb Iron City Spalling Hammer
6 3/4lbs
22 3/3"

SCS 6
13
CCC

What i could find in the above link...
Project #1229
Date - 10/25/1935
Railroad - Machias
Post Office - Machias

 

[Agent_H]

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[Yankee Josh]

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That's awesome!

 

[plumberroy]

We lived in an old house in W.V. in the 70's that didn't have indoor plumbing. The 2 seater outhouse had WPA stamped in the concrete floor