New life for a very old tool

[jlubas]

Well today I got a chance to rescue something from a horrible fate. I work in a small butcher shop and as you can imagine we burn through a lot of knives. Today though we thought it was about time we retire an old Foster brothers cleaver, a much rarer occasion as they last quite a bit longer than a knife.
As I was about to toss it into the grave yard, a cabinet under the counter full of ground down knives, I thought to myself I bet this would make one heck of a woods tool.

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So I got home and started to mess around
With my Street beat for size reference

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This thing took eats through wood and takes every thing I could throw at it. It still needs a bit of cleaning up but I'm looking forward to see what else I can do wit it. It may have seen its last piece of meat but I see a long healthy life for it in retirement.

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And he has some good company too!

 

[evanPGH]

This is such a cool story. Congrats on the new family member!

 

[Swoop03]

There is always another use for everything
I love to see things recycled and put to other uses.
That cleaver sure does have some character to it as well.

 

[Raining]

That is very cool, a woods cleaver! Great repurposing.

 

[Old Virginia Joe]

I can't understand what was wrong with it for the meat shop . . . . .

 

[AntDog]

Sweet! I'm sure some people will say it isn't supposed to work for that, or that isn't it's purpose... But, strangely enough, it still works for that purpose!

Don't let anybody tell you that you can't hack wood with a cleaver. They work great for that!

I do stuff like that a lot too. A lot of friends say I'm the king of "unconventionality".