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Nice axe, the bits are in good shape and from what I can see the embossing is pretty clean. I was tempted to scoop it up just because I've never owned a Black raven double bit… but his price is way higher than what I'll pay for an axe (even a fancy one) and he didn't seem at all flexible on the price when we spoke.
 
Went to 3 estate sales and managed to find something old an rusty at each one. The best find was the plumb hatchet for $1, it was sitting in the wood pile outside the home. The handles on the vulcan and plumb are pretty shot unfortunately. I'll add a few more photos once I get things cleaned up a bit.



 
It's something that looks like a disston 6 TPI but it has the "Warranted Superior" badge on it. It was in good overall shape and priced well so I grabbed it.
 
I bought this large bucking wedge. 6-1/2" wide, 10" long, 8 pounds. Stamp says LIBA (?) and SYMOL.

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That's a BIG wedge!!, isn't it? You have some of the most consistent success scrounging and buying nice old axe heads outta the lot of us "Square-Peg"! Good for you….
I've been jealous of that mint waffle poll rafting axe you got awhile back since you picked it up.
 
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wesm said:
Went to 3 estate sales and managed to find something old an rusty at each one. The best find was the plumb hatchet for $1, it was sitting in the wood pile outside the home. The handles on the vulcan and plumb are pretty shot unfortunately. I'll add a few more photos once I get things cleaned up a bit.



I am liking that vulcan.
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From the land of big timber.
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Yep. I figure this would have been used by some fellows cutting big wood with crosscut saws. To need a wedge this wide they had to be cutting big stuff. If one side of a 5 foot diameter log rolls a little as you're finishing the cut it can bind the saw and make for a lot of axe work to free it. A bucking wedge set perpendicularly across the kerf will prevent that.

Narrower wedges would have been used to keep the kerf open.

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Very hard to read but says "Mann Edge Tool Co"

Unfortunately it is pretty banged up. Any way to save it?

 
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This came home in a big batch a while back and I've been wondering what it was meant to be... Splitting Hatchet? It is about 1.5lbs and the eye is 1 1/8th" by 1/2" or so. Not sure what type of handle to put on it, seems like a lathing hatchet handle is the closest overall dimension.



The next was a from that large auction site for about $10. weights ~ 2.2lb.

 
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Looks pretty solid. You're gonna need to remove a fair amount of material to get the bit back in shape.
 
I just picked up a hewing hatchet, a hewing axe, and a WWII survival hatchet. But, the handle fell off when I came home. I`ll post pictures sometime tomorrow...
 
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