Posted 7 years ago
toolman444
(10 items)
Thinking this may be a tool to make boards from logs by hand? Its quite old, been pounded on, has a hole thru it to run a wire for pulling it back out? (see grooves worn in on either side of hole) Its too narrow to be a splitting tool. Maybe a "chink" used in cutting trees? Not an ax head. About 6 1//2 " long.
At first sight it appears to be a normal splitting wedge, except for the hole. That would lead me to believe it was a stone splitting wedge used in quarries. There might have been what are called feathers that went along with this. Metal wedges aren't used while cutting a tree, if the saw hits metal....goodbye saw.
fhrjr2 - you may have something there. If you see my other post which turned out to be a "mudspoon" designed to clean out holes bored in stone for blasting (or maybe just splitting) - I may have got these two items at the same "cleanout"