What is this Collins Company tool?

[B.S.A. (ret.)]

Ran across this in a yard sale and wonder if anyone knows its purpose. I know that The Collins Company made fine axes and machetes, but this looks like a specialized agricultural tool. Any ideas out there?

 

[B.S.A. (ret.)]

Some photos that may be viewed better.

 

[bob15]

I'm thinking some sort of a brush ax or a fire/rescue type ax head.

 

[signcrafter]

No clue what that is but I have the collins coping foot and the spring clamps. Collins tools makes tools for woodworking.

Tools - Page 2 of 2 - Collins Tool Co.

www.collinstool.com

 

[didit]

First thought...For manipulating logs and removing bark?

 

[bob15]

No clue what that is but I have the collins coping foot and the spring clamps. Collins tools makes tools for woodworking.

Tools - Page 2 of 2 - Collins Tool Co.

www.collinstool.com

Wrong Collins company. The Collins Company tool the OP has went out of business in 1966.

https://www.bnctools.com/blogs/news/the-legacy-of-the-collins-company

https://www.farmcollector.com/equipment/tools/history-collins-axe-works-zmlz18junzhur/

 

[bob15]

First thought...For manipulating logs?

That is typically a peavey:

 

[RTM]

I would guess bark spud, for peeling the bark before cutting logs into lumber

 

[tarmy]

where is this Collins Co based....in NorCal there is a large old family owned lumber/timber and tooling co.....wondering if made there.

 

[bob15]

where is this Collins Co based....in NorCal there is a large old family owned lumber/timber and tooling co.....wondering if made there.

Did you look at the pictures? The stamping says Collins & Co, Hartford, Legitimus. It was made by the old, now defunct, Collins Ax Company from Collinsville, CT.

Other picture's decal says this:

 

[B.S.A. (ret.)]

No clue what that is but I have the collins coping foot and the spring clamps. Collins tools makes tools for woodworking.

Tools - Page 2 of 2 - Collins Tool Co.

www.collinstool.com

Thanks, but as was posted earlierthis is a totally different enterprise that moved operations to Brazil (I think) prior to going out of business.

 

[neophyte]

It looks like it might be a type of “ Cocoa Knife/Pruner”
If you’ve never looked tru catalogs by companies that manufacture agricultural tools, there are all sorts slightly different designs of machetes, and cane knives, and palm knives, and brush knives, etc. etc., based on locally preferred designs, or different varieties of the same crop, etc.
Most of these tools are manufactured and sold for use overseas, do you rarely get to see the variety of different types at your local garden supply or hardware store.
The Cocoa knife is a guess based on the design of the one made by Ralph Martindale in the UK.

Ralph Martindale Group of Companies

Chillington Tools - The No. 1 Choice of people all around the world for over 100 years.

www.ralphmartindale.co.uk