goood Find at the FleaMarket

[Skinner]

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found these At the FleaMarket today and Got All for 5 Bucks.
Not Sure What I'll Do With them Either Re-Condition the Blade Just needs to Be Cleaned Up and some Bolts and a Handle .Or Use the Steel for Knives.???

[Rick]

Great find. Does anyone know what that blade was used for? I've seen dozens of them and my mind is just blank. Okay, more blank that usual. But I can't place it.

[Beans]

my mind is just blank. Okay, more blank that usual. But I can't place it.

Look between your ears

[Rick]

Need I remind you I do know where the ban button is? What the?! It was around here a while ago. Hey Honey!!!...............

[pete lynch]

I saw one in General Tractor; they called it a corn knife, but they had a real corn knife right next it. They had a sickle and they called it a corn knife, too. I guess that's all they sell is different kinds of corn knives.

[Justin Case]

Its a brush hook,,, we used them for wildland firefighting.
http://www.google.com/search?q=brush...w=1600&bih=712


(that one looks homemade)

[Pal334]

Agreed, a Brush hook. Chopped many a sapling with it in my younger days clearing a pipeline right of way

[LowKey]

Brush hook or billhook.

[kyratshooter]

Also known as a facine knife in military circles.

Facines were bundles of sapplings used to line the sides of trenches to keep the walls from caving in.

[Skinner]

this is the Info I Found on it
Brush hook used by the Civilian Conservation Corps
date: 1933 - 1942

dimensions: 5.25" w x 66" l x 1" d


Brush hook (also known as a bank blade). Because CCCers spent so much time outdoors, they utilized a large number of field implements. This bank blade was used to cut brush or undergrowth too thick for weed cutters but too thin for an axe.

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Still got the Blade and Assembly Hardware and a Old Steel Rachet for 5 Bucks Can't Beat that

[Justin Case]

They are still used today by Calfire (formally the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) for cutting hand lines and mop up.

[panch0]

Great find, Man! I never find anything cool like that.

[canid]

I reckon it's fer makin' french fried potaters
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[Rick]

You are one sick irregular meat sprocket.

[welderguy]

ummmm huuuu

[Survival Guy 10]

i allways heard them called a Bush Axe

[bobzilla]

Thanks!!I have one hanging in my fathers garage,makes sense,my grandfather was in the CCC,the old camp is outside Kickapoo State Park,Danville,Il.
It's amazing what you find out on a dreary Sunday Afternoon

[Rick]

He was probably in Camp IL-SCS-48. It started 8/17/1939 and ended in '42. To my knowledge, there is no roster on the internet for the Illinois camps. Many states do have them however.

[Canadian-guerilla]

make the blade into a polearm

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[kyratshooter]

Yep, mounted on a long pole they were used for pruning.

The peasants of europe found their daily tools just as effective in fighting as did the orientals.

The only thing that would get a mounted knight off his horse faster than a billhook was a pretty peasant girl.