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Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes

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Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
on: November 11, 2013, 10:02:20 PM

A thread to show off any of your 'working tools'

Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes  :tu:
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #1 on: November 11, 2013, 10:12:41 PM

I will start with a rather poor picture of mine

At the top...
My copy of Lofty Wisemans survival tool
A cheap but useable Machete
Stick chopper with micarta and brass handle
Billhook with micarta and brass handle
Billhook 'work in progress' handle
Billhook With a typical rat-tail tang
A couple of billhooks/slashers with socket handles

Feel free to add your own pictures/comments  :cheers:
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #2 on: November 11, 2013, 10:13:35 PM
More common than the machete here in Queensland, Australia is the Cane Knife (sugar cane)



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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #3 on: November 12, 2013, 08:39:17 PM
Lol

I got 2 vintage billhooks a few years back. Awesome weapons tools.

Is it true that is where they originate from? I'm sure I read someplace the hook was often used in battles against armour!! Where the hook would simply slice through the steel.
What a tool - respect.  :salute:
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #4 on: November 12, 2013, 09:27:59 PM
I don't feel like going to the shed now. :P I'll try to post some pics tomorrow or on the weekend. A few old sickles, a scythe, a machete, a few old axes, ...


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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #5 on: November 12, 2013, 10:15:25 PM
Lol

I got 2 vintage billhooks a few years back. Awesome weapons tools.

Is it true that is where they originate from? I'm sure I read someplace the hook was often used in battles against armour!! Where the hook would simply slice through the steel.
What a tool - respect.  :salute:
Other way around really.  The hook aids in taking off TREE limbs, not human. ;)  The billhook was used as a medieval weapon (England especially) but started off as an agricultural tool that was pressed into the role,rather than being designed for it.  Later you did get 'billhooks' that were purpose made weapons, but it's roots will always be more benign.
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #6 on: November 12, 2013, 10:25:18 PM


Oh, and before I forget, this is my billhook.
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #7 on: November 12, 2013, 10:32:15 PM
What about that folding thingie you have? :pok: Did you sell it? I always liked the look of that. :D


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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #8 on: November 12, 2013, 10:35:42 PM
Hang on, I'll need to warm up the PC for that. ;)  Searching for and posting pics from my tablet is a pain. ::)
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #9 on: November 12, 2013, 10:38:52 PM
Hang on, I'll need to warm up the PC for that. ;)  Searching for and posting pics from my tablet is a pain. ::)

This might help. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.photobucket.android


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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #10 on: November 12, 2013, 10:42:47 PM
Here you go mate.  WW II era folding machete.  Issued to both British and US troops I believe.





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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #11 on: November 12, 2013, 10:46:29 PM
 :D

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I'd love to find one of those on a car boot sale or something like it. The ones I find on ebay are always in the $200 region or more and that's a bit more than I'm willing to pay. ;)


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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #12 on: November 12, 2013, 10:56:41 PM
Really??  :o  This actually is one that I picked up at a glorified jumble sale, IIRC I paid something like £16 for it.  This was about 15 years ago though.
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #13 on: November 12, 2013, 11:03:18 PM
Really??  :o  This actually is one that I picked up at a glorified jumble sale, IIRC I paid something like £16 for it.  This was about 15 years ago though.

From $75 to $425 based on the condition and if they have all the parts/sheath. Currently listed two with sheath BIN prices for them are $320 and $425. (without shipping)


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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #14 on: November 12, 2013, 11:06:50 PM
Found an old picture of my Tramontina.




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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #15 on: November 12, 2013, 11:11:49 PM
Oh dear. :doh:  I am sure that part doesn't really NEED to be tempered. :whistle:
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #16 on: November 12, 2013, 11:33:19 PM
I will say that whomever designed the folding machete needed a good kick up the rear, the handle is so square it gives you blisters if you just look at it sideways. ::)
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Reply #17 on: November 14, 2013, 08:06:00 PM
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Oh, and before I forget, this is my billhook.

That thing gives me the shivers.
What a truly hideous looking tool - it reminds me of something they would have used when they hung/drawn/quartered people.
I can't actually think of anything scarier, except for maybe a scythe  :to:
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #18 on: November 14, 2013, 08:51:30 PM
OK, I'll have to remember to take some pics of my scythe. >:D Came home late today.


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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #19 on: November 14, 2013, 08:52:09 PM
Did anyone watch Tudor Monastery Farm last night?  A bit of billhook and axe work being done in coppicing a willow wood.
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #20 on: November 15, 2013, 06:30:46 PM
And of course when I do remember to take the pic it 's already pitch black outside. :facepalm:

A quick pic of the sickles and scythe for Nick. The sickles could use some derusting treatment as they haven't been used in ages and it shows. :-\



BTW, if you own a scythe, how do you sharpen it? Around here it's been customary to use a hammer to hammer the edge back into shape. YOu'd have a special chair with a small ambus like thingy in the front and you would thin the edge with the hammer and then sharpen it with a sharpening stone but not like a knife, you'd use a special movement you must have seen in old movies if you'r enot from the country. ;)

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Reply #21 on: November 15, 2013, 06:43:29 PM
Thats how they used to do it here aswell,

Tiny little Anvil thingy used to fit on top of a fence post and you would hammer the edge in to being,
this would form a sharp edge and work harden the steel at the same time so you would have a tough blade with a hardened edge

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Reply #22 on: November 15, 2013, 07:12:38 PM
God I hate the look of that scythe - can you imagine what that would do if swung in the wrong direction....... :ahhh

As for sharpening, I used to have a scythe - that's where my hatred comes from!! To sharpen I used the cigar shaped sharpening stone as shown to me by the elderly gentleman from whom I purchased it from.

Just had a horrible thought - the damn scythe may still be at my parents home  :ahhh

I'll try and find my billhooks tomorrow - they are hidden away in the shed!!
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #23 on: November 15, 2013, 07:48:26 PM
Can you believe my mother let me use a scythe to clear a massively overgrown garden when I was 7 years old?  What was she thinking? :facepalm: 


Still, I do have the standard number of fingers, toes and legs.  Oddly, so does my brother. :think:
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #24 on: November 15, 2013, 09:35:16 PM
Well I didn't use a scythe, but I did "help" my dad with cutting down some brush when I was like 7 with a billhook, loved every moment of it :D
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #25 on: November 15, 2013, 09:46:01 PM
Funnily, being taught to chop kindling by my dad at an even younger age doesn't seem as bad as being let lose with a full sized scythe. 
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #26 on: November 16, 2013, 10:20:39 AM
Well, with a proper scythe, if there's noone else around, you can hardly harm anyone with it... I mean how can you possibly hit yourself with a scythe?
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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #27 on: November 16, 2013, 02:12:14 PM
Well, with a proper scythe, if there's noone else around, you can hardly harm anyone with it... I mean how can you possibly hit yourself with a scythe?

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Re: Show us your Billhooks, Slashers, Machetes
Reply #28 on: November 16, 2013, 03:31:08 PM
Besides hitting an occasional rock hiding in the tall grass I don't think I ever decapitated anyone. :think:

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Reply #29 on: November 20, 2013, 10:28:33 PM
Might be a little interesting

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