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I sort of lucked out in the last week. First went to a local estate sale late in the day and was surprised that nobody had bought any of the three axes that were out in front of the garage. A four-pound Kelly Perfect double-bit, a True Temper Jersey-style single-bit, and another double-bit that...

Oddly, the rpm is not stamped in where it should have been. Another thing is that it is not a date on the chuck, but looks like the thread that the chuck screws on to, my bad for not looking close. As far as the chuck being smooth, i don't know if that is how all Jacobsen chucks were before a...

I vote small worn grub hoe. A lot of common tools were made in smaller sizes for lighter duty, such as the boy's or "house" axe for use next to a wood stove, smaller mattocks etc. for flower gardening by women etc. that were easier to handle for small jobs. Right now in a flower bed on front of...

I agree, the socket for the handle is much lighter than a slick would have, maybe it is time to hit some old Greenlee catalogs and see what else it might be. Somewhere I have something similar, a gouge that is almost 4" wide and with a very light duty socket like this, but I will be darned if I...

I am not an expert on Thor tools, and my collection totals two as far as I am aware, but if I own a Thor power tool I want it as old and primitive looking as possible. This past weekend at the end of an estate sale this was sitting there forlorn and probably doomed for recycling. Not a huge fan...

Look up "rail saw". Back in the day railroad crews had big and extra heavy hand-held hacksaw frames that were used with heavier than normal blades to cut the rails out in the field if they had to. Some of these rail-saws even had a handle on each end for two-man use.

Okay, so until further information pops up you go with what you have and say that the axe is old and rare. Personally if it was my axe I would be glad about having any information on it, and that I had the axe to look at and maybe use, but I would not the information it to make any claims or...

Maybe you should put up some photos. I was a Union Electrician, now retired. Usually when you run conduit the first thing you do is set all the panels, junction boxes, machinery etc. then you have targets where they belong to run the conduit between, to take measurements from so you know...

One thing you have to be very careful about concerning old axes, is that when an older company was bought out or up by a larger company, the brand of axe was continued in production to capitalize on the old name. In fact most of the axe brands or names of axes sold in the 20th century by the...

USA made saws probably all did away with the "split nut" fastners about the same time, but saws made in the U.K., which are fairly common in the USA, used the old-style split-nut fastners well into the 20th century.