Dan in North Houston
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Part of cleaning out my grandfather's tool shed. At first I thought it was a pick-axe where someone just cut off the handle, but not sure. The hole in the head for the handle is pretty small - the handle that you see is about the largest diameter that you could have. I would think that it would easily break if you had a regular length handle like in a regular pick. Head is very heavy, which makes it pretty unbalanced to use with the short handle. Very old, probably made by a blacksmith. Just a short handled pick, or is there a special purpose for this?