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Looks like a falling axe, the flat or hammer part is for driving falling wedges into the saw cut in the tree, and of course the tree is notched in the direction the faller wants it to go, and the axe is also used to knock that block out of the notch. Those style of axes are in use falling timber today in Oregon, and I don't know how far back they go.
Looks like a falling axe, the flat or hammer part is for driving falling wedges into the saw cut in the tree, and of course the tree is notched in the direction the faller wants it to go, and the axe is also used to knock that block out of the notch. Those style of axes are in use falling timber today in Oregon, and I don't know how far back they go.
The smaller license plate is from 1937-1947, and was a state vehicle which didn't require an expiration sticker. Pretty neat.
On the axe head, I would think that a manufacturers name may be stamped on it somewhere? which was more common after the days in which they were made by a blacksmith.