HELP!!!!! what is this type of axe called

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[Danke42]

Looks like a Pulaski. Don't know if it qualifies as "antique".

 

[sjóliði]

yeah it could but they have more beefier heads i'm looking for that gradual edge sort of like the vintage boarding axes

 

[phantomknives]

Looks like a Pulaski. Don't know if it qualifies as "antique".

that's no pulaski.

 

[Danke42]

that's no pulaski.

What do you think it is?

 

[phantomknives]

What do you think it is?

i'm not knowledgeable on european patterns but i do know that pulaski probably did not have a monopoly on hoe-axes, that's as close to a pulaski as a mattock is.

 

[jake pogg]

sjóliði,

this Type of axe-adze combination is one of the most ancient,and "boarding axe",Pulaski,and any number of other specialised tools descent from thence.
The idea is to cut in two directions without having to shift your position,a method useful in many tasks,usually something agricultural,but also in mining(either digging or building supports),roadwork,or in you name it kind of task,including the boarding of a sailing vessel in a rude,uninvited manner.

If i had to guess,i'd place it's origin in Iberian penninsula somewhere,a Portuguese orchardman's axe or the like.Vinyard or olive grove cultivation,some tough fibrous roots and rocky soils,judging by an ample volume inside the eye.

(The guy in the video is a trip:Such great tools,and obviously the skills to go along with those,and all coupled with imagination apparently addled by video-games,or comic books,or some exotic TV programs...Quite solidly divorced from any reality known to me,in any case!

 

[Kevin Houtzager]

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[Agent_H]

Maybe it’s something along the lines of a “Wiedehopfhacke”?:

 

[Agent_H]

Hacha/Azada/Azadón?

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

In Italy they call that a "zappascura", or literally a "hoe axe".

 

[Square_peg]

European style cutter mattock.

 

[flexo]

looks like french "hache piémontaise " by Bret or some other manufacturer ...

 

[bikerector]

I looks surprisingly similar in overall design to the rinaldi hazelnut axe, which as 42blades mentions is a hoe axe. Broader cutting bit and not a pressfit design but you get the idea.

http://www.baryonyxknife.com/rihahoe.html

I originally though it was an adze axe but there's not enough curve to the horizontal side.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

I looks surprisingly similar in overall design to the rinaldi hazelnut axe, which as 42blades mentions is a hoe axe. Broader cutting bit and not a pressfit design but you get the idea.

http://www.baryonyxknife.com/rihahoe.html

I originally though it was an adze axe but there's not enough curve to the horizontal side.

Actually it IS a slip-fit eye on the one in the video. The guy just decides to cast a bunch of aluminum in the eye for some weird reason. Also, the hazelnut axe is pretty small, like tomahawk size. His is a full-sized one, which is more common.

 

[bikerector]

I stand corrected. Thanks 42.

 

[Old Axeman]

I just watched the video at the top of the page (and now I wished I had not) WHAT THE HELL IS THIS GUY DOING ?

 

[plumberroy]

Looks like an old matlock to me

 

[flexo]

looks like french "hache piémontaise " by Bret or some other manufacturer ...

i make you know that french name piémontais(e) refers to northen part of italy! but the outter taper of the eye makes me Believe it's french though french axes of that type are usually much heavier!

 

[flexo]

not to misunderstand with pic piémontais wich is a mattock with two edges one parralele to the haft the other one perpendicular!