Help identify this tool, not an axe.

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Hey guys.
My dad found this in the bush, in an area where we have found relics from the logging industry in the past. Sorry it isn't an axe, I didn't know where else to post it and I knew the members who frequent here specialize in things old and rusty! Any ideas?
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Upnorthdan said:
It looks like a multi tool for turning water curbstop caps and water curbstop on and off
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It does have the form of that type of tool but then what is the fork for? And why are the handles so short? And why the knuckle-bone look to the handles? I think there's more to it.
 
You better give that back to Trans Canada Pipeline so if they get a leak in their tar sands oil pipe-line they can shut it off.
 
Very interesting tool. Obviously a multi tool but I think too small for the fire hydrant thing.

The most interesting thing more me about your post is you refer to where it was found as the 'bush'. We use the word bush as well. I always thought in your part of the world it was called the 'Woods'. Any comment.

regards...Frank
 
I think the fork is so you can drop a piece of pipe or wood in to get more leverage if needed.

Edit - apparently not. Too small, and not at all what this is used for. Interesting. Nice find FTR-14c and BMauser
 
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Its a tool for removing tub drains.
Edit: After a search I'm 100% sure.
 
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Frank-New Zealand said:
Very interesting tool. Obviously a multi tool but I think too small for the fire hydrant thing.

The most interesting thing more me about your post is you refer to where it was found as the 'bush'. We use the word bush as well. I always thought in your part of the world it was called the 'Woods'. Any comment.

regards...Frank
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I think Canadians say "the bush" like the rest of the English speaking world. They have that famous "Bushcraft" guy. Bushcraft is what we used to call woodcraft. Now Roy Underhill calls woodworking woodcraft and bushcraft is popular so we're losing the Nessmuk/Kephart/Seton/White sense of the word woodcraft.
We still call it the woods where I come from, but only if it's got a lot of trees. If "the bush" means the wilds in general, I would say "the wilds" or "the wild" for that.
I wouldn't presume to lay down the law on the subject, and we do have a lot of dialect variation still.
 
I've got one in my plumbing box too, by the way- I think Ftr and Mauser are right. Sometimes the cruciform end fits over the screen you're unscrewing in the top of the drain, and sometimes you have to use the prongs. Why the handles swell and end in slits I don't know. Mine's about 6"x3.5"
I last used this to remove an iron tub's bronze drain. I'm not much of a plumber, but maybe they used to be used on at least some sinks, and maybe they're no longer used on tubs.
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