Anybody know what this tool is for

[peter nap]

It's some kind of saw. It is 36 inches long and the blade is chisel ground.

 

[jredjim]

I think this is a Fodder cutter ( corn stalks ) not sure on the spelling

 

[zopi]

ice saw.

 

[scotclayshooter]

I have used something similar for cutting open silage bales

 

[woodshop]

ice saw.

that was my first guess... sawing blocks of ice on a lake

 

[peter nap]

ice saw.

You know your stuff Zopi!
Thanks

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N

 

[lmbeachy]

Nope, all wrong. That is a hay saw, use to use it when hay was put up loose in a mow. Use it many times when I was a young boy. It would slice right through the hay and you could easily remove it from the mow. Lester

 

[scotclayshooter]

Nope, all wrong. That is a hay saw, use to use it when hay was put up loose in a mow. Use it many times when I was a young boy. It would slice right through the hay and you could easily remove it from the mow. Lester

Sounds right we used it on silage bales before the balers were fitted with choppers and the tool was old before we used it for that

 

[redoak]

pretty sure that's a hay saw

google the two terms and you'll see that an ice saw's teeth are not offset on a curve like that, not as aggressive a cut through ice!

-redoak

 

[Marklambert61]

Hay saw

Its a hay saw 100%

Mark

 

[oldsaw]

Yep, hay saw. Still see them every now and then.

Mark

 

[peter nap]

Thanks Guys!

I think it's a hay knife.
Looking at the pictures, it could be either...but I think the Ice Saw picture is mislabled. The edge is sharpened like a knife and since this is Virginia *even though it used to get cold before the hot air from DC started blowing this way) I don't think it ever got cold enough for the average farmer to have a dedicated Ice Saw.

 

[tatra805]

hay-saw of hay-knife all the way.

Apperantly a world wide spread "technology"

Have one laying around here also.

(cheers)

 

[Bryan Smith]

It's a Hay Knife.

 

[Lloyd H]

what is it

Around here its a hay knife

 

[ShoerFast]

Hay saw, used them as a kid to saw enough hay to feed cattle from a stack.

Stacks still keep better in the elements then hay-bails, but hay bales are 10X handier, so you don't see a lot of stacks anymore.

 

[ShoerFast]

Gotta love antiques as there is a lot of history in them.

Take storing food in root-cellers, and packing them with ice from a nearby frozzen pond or lake.

Here is an ice-saw: