hatchet id?

thriller100 · Jan 28, 2012

so early this morning on my way to the store a careless landscaper didnt secure his garbage can of tools very well,and also came in a little too hot over the train tracks....thus resulting in my new hatchet

(i nicely gathered all the other stuff and put it back in the can off the side of the road)
anyway,im thinking its nothing special.

had a skicker on the handle that all i could make out was "woodsman" and it had black paint on the head that looked like the old beveled axe heads.....anyonehave any ideas?

leebrewer · Jan 28, 2012

Dude, you could have left the empty can with a note inside of you rescuing his tools. Then you could have requested the hatchet as a reward. I'm sure he would have agreed. Especially if the link-up was at an RV out in the woods or something.
A mechanics tools are his living.

thriller100 · Jan 28, 2012

leebrewer said:
Dude, you could have left the empty can with a note inside of you rescuing his tools. Then you could have requested the hatchet as a reward. I'm sure he would have agreed. Especially if the link-up was at an RV out in the woods or something.
A mechanics tools are his living.

agreed, but one who is not going to secure his trade tools and be so careless with them that they get lost,must not care much about them IMO....either way its mine now

....plus i was on foot,just running upto the corner store....no paper no pen no way to carry a ton of landscaping tools

Operator1975 · Jan 28, 2012

I am sure you would have appreciated it if someone would have returned all your tools to you if you made a mistake.

thriller100 · Jan 28, 2012

had there been a way to contact this person,i probably would have but since said person had no name or number on the truck there would have been no way to contact them....again i was on foot about 1 mile from home there is no possible way to carry all that,it was either leave it all there in the road for someone to run over,pick it all up for someone else to come along and take it all,or do what i did and leave it in a visible spot for the person to come back and retrieve his gathered tools.......
anyway i walked back by later today and the can and 2 plastic rakes were still there,thus leading me to believe that said landscaper didnt return for his things.i did what i could,and yes maybe i was wrong to take the hatchet,but at least i will appreciate it take care of it and use it as it should be.instead of a tweaker pawning it to buy meth(which is probably where the rest went) with that being said,i have an addiction,and yes maybe my axe addiction got the best of me this time.
please feel free to let me know how you would have handled this situatiuon,incase it happens to me again or someone else

Thanks-
Justin

thriller100 · Jan 28, 2012

so here is what i did.....i went back to the spot armed with with a poster with a photo of the hatchet i made after my last post,with my #:thumbup:

Operator1975 · Jan 28, 2012

This, is actually awesome come to think of it.

A hatchet had "come into possesion" via a means not seen on here before? Why? Cause owning axes and hatchets is the thing to do now.

Normally, this guy runs over said tracks and crap falls out, we rummage through it, and it is what it is.

Are you on the rake forum telling of your find?

Axes now are the new muscle cars.

It is all becoming absurd.

bearhunter · Jan 31, 2012

Operator1975 said:
This, is actually awesome come to think of it.

A hatchet had "come into possesion" via a means not seen on here before? Why? Cause owning axes and hatchets is the thing to do now.

Normally, this guy runs over said tracks and crap falls out, we rummage through it, and it is what it is.

Are you on the rake forum telling of your find?

Axes now are the new muscle cars.

It is all becoming absurd.

no. i just think we all enjoy axes and hatchets. i grew up using them. i camp, hunt, backpack, hike, and fish using them... i actually used one the other day to dig our stuck 4x4 truck out of the ice and snow...
i used one today to split wood... i use one EVERYDAY to split wood...! i used one the other day to delimp a tree...
the wife and i live off grid in the mountains... an axe is our friend... i use an axe for one reason or the other almost every day all year and have for years... as im sure alot of folks here do. if they do not use one everyday then quite often...
i also used the poll of my old estwing to bang the ice out of our old well drilling pipe chimney the other day...
point is, its not "absurd"... its simply a rejuvenation of a lost art and trade... i certainly do not see anything wrong with that...

the more folks that learn/re-learn the 'old ways', the better IMO... good for us and them...

ps..., i do not think that he should have taken the hatchet, but thats none of my buisness... nor was i there...

markv · Jan 31, 2012

you did O.K.
nice looking hatchet
use it and enjoy it.

i find stuff in the road, i like to walk.
ran over a screw driver once, ruined a seventy dollar tire.

buzz

thriller100 · Jan 31, 2012

.....update....nobody called,the can is still there,nothing in it but a large garbage bag and surrounded by the same.....seems its now an garbage dump....

markv said:
you did O.K.
nice looking hatchet
use it and enjoy it.

i find stuff in the road, i like to walk.
ran over a screw driver once, ruined a seventy dollar tire.

buzz

i dont feel bad at all,i am a survivalist,i use any situation to my advantage,urban or wilderness and yes i will use it and take care of it

i put the head on a longer 22'' handle for a 2 handed hatchet/small axe

baliblaster · Feb 4, 2012

Good Lord people get over it,it's a ten dollar hatchet!I would have took it also,if you are going to leave your stuff scattered in the road don't expect it to be there when you get back.