Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

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I can’t believe no one’s gotten around to making a Lambsfoot where the blade is half Lambsfoot and half bottle opener…

We got some heavy wet snow overnight and it's pretty sloppy outside.

Yep. Even less fun than shoveling the sloppy wet snow was the tree branch that fell and hit my truck. Thankfully it only got the front corner of the hood, but still… no fun.

It certainly could have been worse. The limb was almost as long as my truck, and could have easily hit my wife’s car and/or the house, too. HHB (and truck) for scale.

(That’s not where it landed when it fell. I moved it for the photo. It landed in front of both our vehicles, lying sideways across the driveway, in the narrow space between them and the garage door.)

Good Morning Guardians

Tasty looking treats, as always, Harvey. And that bolster!

I had a nice drive out to the West Yorkshire market town of Otley, stopping for coffee and a croissant on the way. Lots of Red Kites in the air, as we crossed the Harewood Estate. I used to have business in Otley, and would be out here 2 or 3 times a week, but now it's rare I visit. Unfortunately, my favourite eating place here was closed for the day, but we managed to find somewhere Nice find in a small antiques shop, got a 4 foot shaft on it Can't be long until the next Peasants Revolt surely!

Skinner & Johnson No 3 Long-Handled Yorkshire Pattern Billhook/Slasher

Sounds like a good outing, Jack. I’m guessing since you said you “drove out” that you didn’t have to take the 4-foot billhook on public transport?

 

[Modoc ED]

Nice Ebony on this one.

 

[Jack Black]

I can’t believe no one’s gotten around to making a Lambsfoot where the blade is half Lambsfoot and half bottle opener…

Yep. Even less fun than shoveling the sloppy wet snow was the tree branch that fell and hit my truck. Thankfully it only got the front corner of the hood, but still… no fun.

It certainly could have been worse. The limb was almost as long as my truck, and could have easily hit my wife’s car and/or the house, too. HHB (and truck) for scale.

(That’s not where it landed when it fell. I moved it for the photo. It landed in front of both our vehicles, lying sideways across the driveway, in the narrow space between them and the garage door.)

Blimey, that's a big one Barrett, I'm glad nobody was hurt! I live on a tree-lined avenue, and over the years I've been here, I've seen a few large trees come down, as well as branches that would crush a car. Fortunately, nobody has ever been injured, and the property damage has been fairly minor

Sounds like a good outing, Jack. I’m guessing since you said you “drove out” that you didn’t have to take the 4-foot billhook on public transport?

No, that would have been, er, interesting! I once saw a beautiful old scythe for sale at a Car Boot Sale, but balked at standing at the side of the road, waiting for the bus with it!

 

[Jack Black]

Nice Ebony on this one.

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Looks good Ed

 

[echoscout]

Cool

Looks like a great start to the day. Great photo and the 19 looks like its ready for action. Have a great day David.

Fantastic David!

Thank you fellas!

 

[Jakeywax31]

I can’t believe no one’s gotten around to making a Lambsfoot where the blade is half Lambsfoot and half bottle opener…



Yep. Even less fun than shoveling the sloppy wet snow was the tree branch that fell and hit my truck. Thankfully it only got the front corner of the hood, but still… no fun.

It certainly could have been worse. The limb was almost as long as my truck, and could have easily hit my wife’s car and/or the house, too. HHB (and truck) for scale.

(That’s not where it landed when it fell. I moved it for the photo. It landed in front of both our vehicles, lying sideways across the driveway, in the narrow space between them and the garage door.)



Tasty looking treats, as always, Harvey. And that bolster!



Sounds like a good outing, Jack. I’m guessing since you said you “drove out” that you didn’t have to take the 4-foot billhook on public transport?

Crappy luck Barrett. Sorry about the truck. I guess it could of been worse.

Nice Ebony on this one.

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Thanks a good one Ed!

 

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Hard to beat Ebony Jer. Have a nice day buddy.

Nice way to start the week Jer

Unfortunately, my favourite eating place here was closed for the day, but we managed to find somewhere Nice find in a small antiques shop, got a 4 foot shaft on it Can't be long until the next Peasants Revolt surely!

Thanks, thanks, at least they aren't closed for good, and much better than a pitchfork. Those pitchforks can really hang you up at close quarters.

The lambsfoot thread isn't the place for my theory of the morris pike.
And I've probably aired my theory of the morris pike in the lambsfoot thread already anyway.

 

[mbkr]

My Buffalo horn lamb from across the pond is market "out for delivery"

Good Morning Guardians

My blood sugar just spiked. A lot
Great pic, Harvey

The good old days, huh Bob? Nice snakewood Lambfoot,

That's by far and away the best part of the movie. Makes me want to go ride

Bob, Rufus1949 , sorry to hear your riding days are over. I've still got a few years left. I hope

I can’t believe no one’s gotten around to making a Lambsfoot where the blade is half Lambsfoot and half bottle opener…



Yep. Even less fun than shoveling the sloppy wet snow was the tree branch that fell and hit my truck. Thankfully it only got the front corner of the hood, but still… no fun.

It certainly could have been worse. The limb was almost as long as my truck, and could have easily hit my wife’s car and/or the house, too. HHB (and truck) for scale.

(That’s not where it landed when it fell. I moved it for the photo. It landed in front of both our vehicles, lying sideways across the driveway, in the narrow space between them and the garage door.)



Tasty looking treats, as always, Harvey. And that bolster!



Sounds like a good outing, Jack. I’m guessing since you said you “drove out” that you didn’t have to take the 4-foot billhook on public transport?

Better your truck than you. Dents in the head are harder to remove.

 

[Rufus1949]

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My blood sugar just spiked. A lot
Great pic, Harvey

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Bob, Rufus1949 , sorry to hear your riding days are over. I've still got a few years left. I hope

Better your truck than you. Dents in the head are harder to remove.

Glad to hear you are still riding Mike

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks, thanks, at least they aren't closed for good, and much better than a pitchfork. Those pitchforks can really hang you up at close quarters.

The lambsfoot thread isn't the place for my theory of the morris pike.
And I've probably aired my theory of the morris pike in the lambsfoot thread already anyway.

I reckon so Jer, it has a lovely heft to it I don't recall your Morris Pike theory

That's by far and away the best part of the movie. Makes me want to go ride View attachment 2106322
Bob, Rufus1949 , sorry to hear your riding days are over. I've still got a few years left. I hope

It is! Wishing you many more years in the saddle Mike Occasionally, I think I should get a bike again, and then I remember I haven't ridden one for nearly 30 years! When I was young, I knew a great old guy who rode his Brough Superior well into his 80's

Boy, those are going for frightening amounts now!

 

[SteveC]

I can’t believe no one’s gotten around to making a Lambsfoot where the blade is half Lambsfoot and half bottle opener…



Yep. Even less fun than shoveling the sloppy wet snow was the tree branch that fell and hit my truck. Thankfully it only got the front corner of the hood, but still… no fun.

It certainly could have been worse. The limb was almost as long as my truck, and could have easily hit my wife’s car and/or the house, too. HHB (and truck) for scale.

(That’s not where it landed when it fell. I moved it for the photo. It landed in front of both our vehicles, lying sideways across the driveway, in the narrow space between them and the garage door.)



Tasty looking treats, as always, Harvey. And that bolster!



Sounds like a good outing, Jack. I’m guessing since you said you “drove out” that you didn’t have to take the 4-foot billhook on public transport?

Glad it wasn't worse than it could have been !

 

[mbkr]

It is! Wishing you many more years in the saddle Mike Occasionally, I think I should get a bike again, and then I remember I haven't ridden one for nearly 30 years! When I was young, I knew a great old guy who rode his Brough Superior well into his 80's

Boy, those are going for frightening amounts now!

Thanks Jack
My cousin Dean bought his first bike in 30 years or so, 3 or 4 years ago. He got hit by a pickup a year and half later. Busted him up bad. He's back riding it now. I told him if I'd got hurt that bad, I didn't know if I'd ever get on one again or not. Its a powerful pull for sure.

The only Brough I've ever seen was in a museum in Iowa.

 

[JohnDF]

Faster than a speeding Lambfoot, John.

Able to leap tall lambs in a single bound.

I wish I could eat like you do... great picture.

I see what you did there. Always like seeing pictures of that one John!

Thank you, Paul.

Cool pic John!

Thank you, Jack.

I was goig to say, getting back on the bus must be an adventure.

That's a real bummer, my friend... Pretty truck though.

 

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I don't recall your Morris Pike theory

It wasn't a lambsfoot, so I won't post a picture.
George Cameron Stone says the "Morris, Moorish pike" was very popular in the 16th century, but we don't know what was different about it.
But a poem about the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513 puts the morris pike with the bills and mauls, which all go "thwack", indicating that the morris pike was a striker rather than a sticker.
Stone also illustrates a half-moon/demi lune which was a very popular pole arm in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the example he shows is Spanish. Moorish meant Spanish.
Simmons and Turley (Southwestern Colonial Ironwork), discussing inventories from a 1598 expedition to Mexico, say that many of the soldiers had polearms called dalles. "The term refers to a distinctive Spanish weapon, the half-moon, popular from the 16th to the 18th centuries." '"It had a crescent-shaped blade attached at right angles to the shaft"'. (The second sentence is a quote from Stone.)
So anyway, I think the morris pike was a half-moon. Like an oversized hocking knife sharpened on the outer edges.

 

[cigarrodog]

That’s not where it landed when it fell. I moved it for the photo. It landed in front of both our vehicles, lying sideways across the driveway, in the narrow space between them and the garage door.)

It was good fortune that the bad fortune wasn’t worse. Good that you’re all safe. That’s one cool F150.

Tasty looking treats, as always, Harvey. And that bolster!

Thank you Barrett.

My blood sugar just spiked. A lot
Great pic, Harvey

Thank you Mike.

is! Wishing you many more years in the saddle Mike Occasionally, I think I should get a bike again, and then I remember I haven't ridden one for nearly 30 years! When I was young, I knew a great old guy who rode his Brough Superior well into his 80's

What a motorcycle.

I wish I could eat like you do... great picture.

Thank you John.

 

[Angry Waiter]

Haven't had a Carta Blanca since I left Texas. I will have to remedy that soon. Looks like you had a great day Pete.

Thanks Paul!

I can’t believe no one’s gotten around to making a Lambsfoot where the blade is half Lambsfoot and half bottle opener…

I was hoping to convey that message. lol

 

[Onebigbill]

I reckon so Jer, it has a lovely heft to it I don't recall your Morris Pike theory


It is! Wishing you many more years in the saddle Mike Occasionally, I think I should get a bike again, and then I remember I haven't ridden one for nearly 30 years! When I was young, I knew a great old guy who rode his Brough Superior well into his 80's

Boy, those are going for frightening amounts now!

Very cool bike.

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks Jack
My cousin Dean bought his first bike in 30 years or so, 3 or 4 years ago. He got hit by a pickup a year and half later. Busted him up bad. He's back riding it now. I told him if I'd got hurt that bad, I didn't know if I'd ever get on one again or not. Its a powerful pull for sure.

The only Brough I've ever seen was in a museum in Iowa.
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Sorry to hear that Mike. It's a consideration though isn't it, you don't bounce so good as you get older, or heal so fast Old George was a great guy, he had a side-box, which he often carried guns and crossbows in, and his missus would sit behind him. I sat on his bike a few times as a kid. The problem he had eventually was that, when he left the bike parked up, people would steal parts off it as souvenirs! He could get the parts OK, but he was left in a jam if he'd gone to the seaside for the day, or whatever. After he passed, his son inherited the bike, he'd had it for decades

I was going to say, getting back on the bus must be an adventure.

It wasn't easy to fit in the car!

It wasn't a lambsfoot, so I won't post a picture.
George Cameron Stone says the "Morris, Moorish pike" was very popular in the 16th century, but we don't know what was different about it.
But a poem about the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513 puts the morris pike with the bills and mauls, which all go "thwack", indicating that the morris pike was a striker rather than a sticker.
Stone also illustrates a half-moon/demi lune which was a very popular pole arm in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the example he shows is Spanish. Moorish meant Spanish.
Simmons and Turley (Southwestern Colonial Ironwork), discussing inventories from a 1598 expedition to Mexico, say that many of the soldiers had polearms called dalles. "The term refers to a distinctive Spanish weapon, the half-moon, popular from the 16th to the 18th centuries." '"It had a crescent-shaped blade attached at right angles to the shaft"'. (The second sentence is a quote from Stone.)
So anyway, I think the morris pike was a half-moon. Like an oversized hocking knife sharpened on the outer edges.

Interesting Jer, you're very learned my friend

What a motorcycle.

Very cool bike.

When the film Lawrence of Arabia came out, the ABC Cinema in Sheffield, rented George's bike, and they had it on a revolving plinth in the foyer!

George told me that when he got his first motorcycle, a Royal Enfield, it was before gears, and you had to set off running and jump on the back! That wasn't so hard, as the roads were empty There were no tests in those days, and you just bought a license from the post office

 

[peanutsxx]

Roast tomato, red pepper, & lentil soup

Looks good! It so happens that I had left-over red lentils (Indian daal style) and jasmine rice for lunch.

 

[cudgee]

George told me that when he got his first motorcycle, a Royal Enfield, it was before gears, and you had to set off running and jump on the back!

When i was a kid i knew an old bloke who had been into motor bikes. He had one of those, it was a skill in itself to get it started, and dangerous, if the timing had slipped even a fraction, they would jump and kick like a horse. A lot of what we remember as romantic from better days, were down right dangerous.