lathing hatchet- who knew!

It's hard to say. I can imagine a technique for putting up lath like that but it's impossible to say how any one length was handled from the time it was picked up, cut to length and nails up.
 
I talked to an old boy whose uncle was a plasterer in Seattle when he was young and he (the old boy) sometimes got hired on to haul lath bundles. Said the right handed lath hangers would start at the ceiling and lath off the lid, then work from right to left across a wall. Chopped them to length right on the stud. He said 2 of them could do a room in about 1/2 an hour, but a left handed lather had to find a left handed partner to nail it up the other direction - no right hand guy would work with a left handed partner.


Parker
 
We can tell a fair bit about use of a lath axe from its tracks left behind. The different cuts: straight perpendicular to cut length, rarely through cuts mostly scoring then snap, angled perpendicular to he face, a kind of scarf cut, perpendicular to the edge along the roof line mostly done in two cuts ( I don't know how they would avoid blowing out he bottom edge but they did. Finally splitting/trimming in the length to fill a gap.
 
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