Hammer/ hatchet?

[LostinGeorgia]

Not sure what to call this but it is the first one I’ve found. Going to try to refurbish. Good luck everyone!

 

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[pepperj]

Not sure what to call this but it is the first one I’ve found. Going to try to refurbish. Good luck everyone!

Need a better photo, and an actual size, if you could provide.
Nice looking from the picture.

 

[ticndig]

roofers hatchet

 

[LostinGeorgia]

roofers hatchet

Thanks

 

[LostinGeorgia]

Need a better photo, and an actual size, if you could provide.
Nice looking from the picture.

Will get better picture tomorrow

 

[LostinGeorgia]

Need a better photo, and an actual size, if you could provide.
Nice looking from the picture.

This is better I hope

 

[pepperj]

This is better I hope

Thank you for the picture and size.
I will say your hatchet isn't a roofer's hatchet per se.

From images what style that would be close to yours could be a Fayette R. Plumb
Not that it is an exact match (notch & hex sided hammer) Though it has the same shape blade.

The only was really is if you clean the rust/dirt off till it shows it's true metal and hopefully a maker's mark.
Here is a very informative link to maker's marks for the ID, and era/age to which they were made.

Plumb Co.

 

[pepperj]

What you've posted is also a roofers hammer.

I guess your version and my version can be called the same.
I have no issue in calling it that.
But to call something as a generic name isn't quite correct either.
The modern version is roofers hammer/hatchet.
The version/style would be a plumb.
Though looking at the true definition for this we are both not correct really.
I haven't the time to read the whole glossary but I'm sure it will provide the correct term.

Glossary: Axes, Edge Tools, etc.

 

[Gare]

Nice hatchet you had a busy time digging all that stuff

 

[LostinGeorgia]

Thank you for the picture and size.
I will say your hatchet isn't a roofer's hatchet per se.

From images what style that would be close to yours could be a Fayette R. Plumb
Not that it is an exact match (notch & hex sided hammer) Though it has the same shape blade.View attachment 2126910

The only was really is if you clean the rust/dirt off till it shows it's true metal and hopefully a maker's mark.
Here is a very informative link to maker's marks for the ID, and era/age to which they were made.

Plumb Co.

Thanks

 

[ticndig]

I guess your version and my version can be called the same.
I have no issue in calling it that.
But to call something as a generic name isn't quite correct either.
The modern version is roofers hammer/hatchet.
The version/style would be a plumb.
Though looking at the true definition for this we are both not correct really.
I haven't the time to read the whole glossary but I'm sure it will provide the correct term.

Glossary: Axes, Edge Tools, etc.

plum is a brand not a style of roofers hatchet/hammer . now under the Ames brand name.

Plumb Co.

 

[pepperj]

plum is a brand not a style of roofers hatchet/hammer . now under the Ames brand name.

Plumb Co.

In the link you have shown a company AMES that was in business from 1971-1981.
The OP's recovery dates to an earlier version of stress.
Plumb was in fact closer to the recovery

Though if you insist that this AMES BRAND
looks like the recovered one - then I really don't know what to say.

 

[LostinGeorgia]

Will use electrolysis and see what I get and update if I find out anything

 

[ticndig]

I said plum is a brand not a style. I never said or implied his was made by ames or plum . I SAID IT WAS MADE FOR ROOFING. you said it was a plum referring to a style . and I said plum is a brand .

 

[pepperj]

Will use electrolysis and see what I get and update if I find out anything

Should bring up a maker's mark hopefully.
Then it will help in the dating of it.
Looking at it in its present condition it looks well used. That or the blade snapped.

 

[pepperj]

I said plum is a brand not a style. I never said or implied his was made by ames or plum . I SAID IT WAS MADE FOR ROOFING. you said it was a plum referring to a style . and I said plum is a brand .

You said I said we both said probably the same thing. Alls good.

 

[LostinGeorgia]

Should bring up a maker's mark hopefully.
Then it will help in the dating of it.
Looking at it in its present condition it looks well used. That or the blade snapped.

Not to hopeful about makers mark but gonna see what happens.

 

[pepperj]

Not to hopeful about makers mark but gonna see what happens.

I've seen some really corroded iron, still having the mark visible after cleaning.
I hope yours will have one.

 

[Almy]

When I was framing houses over 50 years ago, we used such hatchets for installing cedar shingles as siding. When we got to a place where a narrower single was needed, we'd split a wider one to size and usually use a block plane to smooth the spit. The hammer end was used for nailing. Presumably, these hatchets could have been used for cedar shingle roofing, too. They are not for asphalt shingles.

 

[Digger RJ]

Not sure what to call this but it is the first one I’ve found. Going to try to refurbish. Good luck everyone!

Nice!!! Congrats!!!