The axe is cool. I have my grandfather's machinest level on my wall along with the leather and wood case he made for it. He was a millwright for McCloud River lumber.
The axe is cool. I have my grandfather's machinest level on my wall along with the leather and wood case he made for it. He was a millwright for McCloud River lumber.
When I was a rural propane delivery driver, I was invited into a rednecks kitchen to collect payment. He had drilled his kitchen counter, and mounted a reloading press.
Are there really folks who don't have the familiar three holes somewhere in the house?
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I still use my grandfathers double bit axe and he died in 1958.
15 meter The older double bits were true double bits not double edges. One edge was slightly thicker and sharpened for splitting the other was thinner and sharpened for chopping and cutting. I have the family axe that was passed down from great grand father, to Grand Dad to Dad and then me. This is a axe head that was made my a blacksmith. It out cuts out splits the new ones by a long shot.
I don’t think the hanging axe is redneck, it’s a symbol of hard work, hard work that was to keep his family warm and possibly fed, if they had a wood fired cooking stove. I think we need more reminders of the way our ancestors did things. I have quite a few tools from my great grandfather and use them also. I like being reminded of how much better we have things than way back when, but I think nothing is more redneck than a couch on the front porch!
I have my Grandfather's large cast iron Dutch Oven. He was born 1859 era my Dad was born 1899, my Mother in 1909. Dad would say that his Dad could skin a squirrel every minute of the clock. ie: ten minutes = ten squirrels skinned.
I have my grandfathers billy club. He walked a beat in Savannah in the early 40s.
I have come to believe honey bees are more important to this world than I am.
You might be a redneck if you shoot a rotten oak limb out of the tree the grandkids swing is on to keep it from falling on them.
One shot with the 12 ga. did the trick..dale
I have my great grandmother,s cast iron bean pot. I came to Michigan from Pennsylvania in a horse drawn wagon. The family lived in and under that wagon the first summer on the homestead.
I don't think the Ax is Redneck, but rather cool! I do have some Redneck tendencies, like the one that Roger posted about with brass on the kitchen counters.
I once borrowed my neighbors twelve gauge so I could stand on a chair and start a hole through my cabin floor for the drain pipe from the sink. I forgot my brace and bit at home. Necessity really is the father of invention!
R.D.M.
Old school friend died - his obit mentioned his "fiancee of 27 years" !
That axe could be a hechuva burglar deterrent tool ! Or sit with it across knees while talking to the daughter's prom date...
I like the axe, I have a finishing hammer that belonged to my Grandfather and Father. When I pick it up I feel like I am shaking hands with them.
jim
Prolly not guest rooms...they don't have curtains over the car windows and the house does. Could be the dog's house though....Gotta put those 8 dogs someplace since there isn't a front porch to live under.
To the OP...I think the axe is really cool....you should be (and obviously are) proud to display it. The best part is the memories and the stories you can tell about it and your grand-dad.
redhawk
The only stupid question...is the unasked one.
Not all who wander....are lost.
"Common Sense" is like a flower. It doesn't grow in everyone's garden.
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...or mutates...then tries to kill you again!
If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question. - Ronald Reagan
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |