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Jim Jacobs Guest
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:57 am Post subject: Pics, British/American Farmer Impression, 4th Qtr. 18th C. |
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A basic collection of farm tools;
-Wheel Barrow
-Linen field sack (large open top haversack, shown full of newly picked corn)
-Smaller grain/seed sacks
-Small Felling Axe
-Sickle
-Warren Hoe (shown helved)
-Cultivating Hoe (unhelved blade shown; I use one handle and interchange the two blades as needed)
-Wooden Fork
-Wooden Rake
Not Shown;
-Grubbing Hoe
-Period Shovel
-Dibble, line and stakes, for laying out rows
-Tomahawk
-Corn Knife
-Scythe Blade
-Froe
-Switchel Jug
Needed;
-Snathe
-Large period Felling Axe
-Pruning Knife
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Isaac User

Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 289 Location: Ouisconsing, Pays d'en Haut
Real Name: Isaac Walters
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:03 am Post subject: |
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Alright!!! Looking good.
IW
_________________ We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold
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ditmurier User
Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 89
Real Name: Mike Tharp
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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Very Nice, Jim! By the way it works now!
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Jim Jacobs Guest
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:12 am Post subject: |
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Thank you, gentlemen.
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Isaac User

Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 289 Location: Ouisconsing, Pays d'en Haut
Real Name: Isaac Walters
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:18 am Post subject: |
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I REALLY need to make a new hay fork.
Need a pruning knife, eh? I have been working on getting a nice folding one like you see in a lot of french images... for the apples, grapes, and etc.
_________________ We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold
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ditmurier User
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Real Name: Mike Tharp
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:27 am Post subject: |
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Yes, I have been using a rigid version for a while! Plus I need a small wheel for my wheel barrel?
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Jim Jacobs Guest
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Jim Jacobs Guest
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Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:02 am Post subject: |
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Wagon, cart and wheel barrow wheels....here's a place out of Mansfield Ohio....
http://www.amishwares.com/site/1504461/page/45031
No shortage of wheels from online merchants, and the wheel barrow sizes generally run around $60-$65.
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Isaac User

Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 289 Location: Ouisconsing, Pays d'en Haut
Real Name: Isaac Walters
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Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:08 am Post subject: |
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MacAdams was making me one, but I have not heard from him lately. With as nice of french folders as Ken Hamilton and Randy Wolf make, I would imagine either of them would be up to the job.
Wheels... I have a couple coming from Karl that match the ones on my current cart!!!!
IW
_________________ We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold
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Jim Jacobs Guest
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Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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Name dropper. ; )
I thought Karl only made straw hats, canoes and barrels. Quite an all around talented guy, huh? And yep, I think Ken Hamilton and Randy both would turn out a real good tool.
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ditmurier User
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Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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Might have to see if I can hurt myself, switching mine to a folder?
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Isaac User

Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 289 Location: Ouisconsing, Pays d'en Haut
Real Name: Isaac Walters
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Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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Karl didn't make them, they are old wood hubbed ones. My original two came from him on a trade and this is another from that batch.
Speaking of tools... I took the tip of my thumb off with my billhook yesterday. I am missing a good portion of my thumbnail and some good flesh... sorta sucks but heck... it is a good billhook and holds an edge!
IW
_________________ We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold
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Jim Jacobs Guest
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Ouch! Now there's an immersion experience.
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eseabee1 User
Joined: 11 Aug 2009 Posts: 46 Location: PA
Real Name: Edwin McDilda
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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where can one find an axe like you have in the cart.
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Jim Jacobs Guest
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:18 am Post subject: |
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I'm not sure. It's a large hammer pole tomahawk head that I helved with a mallet handle, and I got it in trade at an event several years ago from a fellow that claimed to have found an old crate of them in a warehouse in Wisconsin. How old it is I don't know, but it has an "X" maker's mark stamped in it, and there are no visible tooling marks or any sign it was cast. It also rings like a tuning fork when driving stakes, which is something I've never seen in anything but top grade hammers and anvils.
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