Smart Brockville Rock Pick Hammer

[Able_walker]

Hope you guys don't mind but I've noticed thread titles pop up in Google nicely and since there are very few pics if any of Smart Brockville hammers online I would do my bit for the legacy and history of Canadian Manufacturing and post a few pics of the one I found recently..I wire wheeled the rust off and smacked the head down on the handle a half inch or so and then ground down the part sticking out and then waxed and lightly stained the handle..I must say I like it quite a bit. The romance of a lone prospector looking for gold in them thar hills and all that.
http://yesteryearstools.com/Yesteryears Tools/Smart Mfg. Co..html

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[300Six]

Right on! The last of Smart products was made in around 1965. I've got a couple of their fry pans and a lovely Dutch oven. When it comes to industry or any manufacture it is rather quiet in Brockville nowadays. Nice scenery and affordable real estate is making it attractive for retirement living. More and more folks from there actually commute in to Ottawa to work these days. You'd think 100 clicks is a bit of a hike but on a clear-sailing 400-series highway it takes just as long to travel as it does to have to endure 10 km of downtown Ottawa daily rush hour.

 

[Able_walker]

Just noticed this surfin around...nice find sold for just over $200.00 on Ebay recently so someone wanted it pretty badly.

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[300Six]

Wow! Dedicated collectors of NOS axes are increasingly having to pony up with serious cash. I wonder if Operator1975 is still in this league since we haven't heard anything from him in quite awhile.

 

[Able_walker]

Looked again....$150.00 US....still up there.Here's the sold listing while the details last.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/VINTAGE-EMPI...450430?hash=item465687ca3e:g:1pMAAOSw-CpX9~GR

 

[hank_rearden]

when i was into mining in the 80's we were issued hickory handled stanleys.

now younger geologists are given plastic handled estwings

 

[Able_walker]

I was wondering if Geologists and Miners still used Rock Picks out in the field what with all the new magnetic surveying and stuff...those Estwings do seem to be just about the only ones available these days.

 

[Bridger]

I was wondering if Geologists and Miners still used Rock Picks out in the field what with all the new magnetic surveying and stuff...those Estwings do seem to be just about the only ones available these days.

Yes, they do. We use them for everything from digging holes to breaking off a hand sample to observe an unweathered surface.


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[Able_walker]

Another Smart Brockville example sold on ebay....these listings eventually disappear so this forum can be a source of info...$49.00 US...nice hatchet.

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[Able_walker]

1942 catalog just sold on ebay for $68.00 bucks....a couple of nice page views from the listing...added the picture of the worker..I doubt health and safety would allow that these days.

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[300Six]

Wow! Their axes were marketed according to amount of 'spit and polish' afforded to the heads ('Canadian' as top of the line for all patterns and '444' designation for strippers), they made well pumps, school desks, lawn mowers and kitchen goods, amongst other things. No doubt Smart was commandeered to make artillery shells, boat anchors or some such for the war effort not long after the flashy 1942 catalogue came out.