Found this axe head

[boojagirl]

In the park by the river in town, I know in the beginning of the towns life logging white pine down the river was big, what type of axes head is this? It weighs about 5 pounds.

 

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[ivan salis]

looks like a old heavy felling ax used to chop trees down with-- look at the modern 4 lb --tool council amer ( American) felling ax

 

[vpnavy]

I pulled this from the United States Department of Agriculture WebSite: A Practical Ax Manual Brief History of the Ax. Here are a few pictures - a bunch more on the website...

United States Department of Agriculture

 

[boojagirl]

This Is Part Of Our Towns History, I wonder if the axe is from way back then.

 

[against the wind]

Cool find
I like the possibility of it's historical significance.

 

[CTwoods]

This Is Part Of Our Towns History, I wonder if the axe is from way back then.

I'd say it has a better chance of being 1800s rather than 1900s as it is broken at the blade. What I mean is that it takes a lot more abuse to break a modern axe head because the metal is better.

Axes are tough to date, but the really old ones in my area are blacksmith made. They made it from a long strip, then folded it over a shaped die thing to make the hole, and the blade is where the two ends were hammer-welded together. Those usually show that technique when looking down at the hole. Maybe get a good pic from both sides of the hole.

another thing is that people brought older things to a new area. That axe could be older or newer than that time frame, for that reason.

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[boojagirl]

 

[CTwoods]

I don't really see any hint of it being a hand made hammer welded head, which would hint of being older than your town. It looks factory made, but it still can be from the mid 1800s industry in your town.

one interesting thing worth mentioning: A person who made a living with an axe, is less likely to abuse it by hitting the back end with a sledge hammer, or using the back end to bang on a steel wedge to split wood. The mashed ones are usually a homeowner who also used the axe as or with a splitting wedge, which is not good.

Yours does not look like it was used that way, but it proves nothing.... except it hints to someone using it to fell trees, not primarily making firewood.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I don't really see any hint of it being a hand made hammer welded head, which would hint of being older than your town. It looks factory made, but it still can be from the mid 1800s industry in your town.

one interesting thing worth mentioning: A person who made a living with an axe, is less likely to abuse it by hitting the back end with a sledge hammer, or using the back end to bang on a steel wedge to split wood. The mashed ones are usually a homeowner who also used the axe as or with a splitting wedge, which is not good.

Yours does not look like it was used that way, but it proves nothing.... except it hints to someone using it to fell trees, not primarily making firewood.

Great observation and that makes complete sense.

 

[boojagirl]

Cool, thanks for the info.

 

[A2coins]

I find lots of those also nice relic!!!!

 

[releventchair]

Warming an axe head before using in real cold weather used to be a practice. To avoid ..breaking them.

 

[Wildcat1750]

Nice axe head! You usually don't see them broken like that.