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Buster

01-08-2001 11:32:10




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What is the proper use of a brush hook? Is is swung like an axe or how? Is the brush meant to be cut off at the ground level or slightly below? I have one that was my fathers, I have never used it and have never seen him use it as well. It has an axe handle with a J shaped blade on the end, the inside of the J is sharpened. Have I overlooked a useful piece of equipment that has been gathering rust all of these years? Thanks.

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Kermit

01-12-2001 15:19:27




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 Re: Brush hook in reply to Buster, 01-08-2001 11:32:10  
I have a tool such as you describe, but I know it as a ditch axe. It is a handy tool. I use mine to help clear multi flora rose and such out of fence rows. With the axe handle it gives me more reach than a machete so I don't get caught up in the briars. Handy piece of equipment.



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rhudson

01-08-2001 13:31:02




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 Re: Brush hook in reply to Buster, 01-08-2001 11:32:10  
The convicts and i use it just like an ax in the souther part of Virginia, if its what we call a bush ax. the bush ax is razor sharp on the inside of the hook. there's another tool we call a ditch blade, its on a longer straight handle, is very thin and sharpened on both sides of the hook. anyway the bush ax is good for removing trees up to about 3" diameter. we carry a sharpening stone in the shape of a stick thats half-round. during breaks you sharpen the edge.

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Fred OH

01-09-2001 12:41:05




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 Re: Re: Brush hook in reply to rhudson, 01-08-2001 13:31:02  
Rhud, you wouldn't happen to have an alias of Cool Hand Luke would you? (grin)
Buster, I can see why you haven't ever used that brush ax. Most of the young ones of today wouldn't work in a pie factory, let alone wear blisters with one of them things. Try it out, it's good physical exercise. And if you can use it for eight hours straight, one of the boys will probably give you a tractor. I bet Burrhead would do it... L8R----Fred OH

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Dan G/voice of experience

01-09-2001 11:12:23




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 Re: Re: Brush hook in reply to rhudson, 01-08-2001 13:31:02  
The bush hook and ditch blade are both great tools, if used for their intended purposes. I'll just pass on a hard-learned safety tip about the ditch blade. This tool is designed to be used with a slinging motion to clean weeds & small brush from ditch banks. If you try to use it as an axe, it will work very well, BUT, you will probably have to have help to drink your coffee the next morning. This thing will beat the bushings out of your elbows in about 3 whacks. The trick is, to release the pressure on it before it strikes the target, or it sets up a wicked vibration that will go all the way to your toes. Hope this helps someone avoid some pain.

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F14

01-08-2001 12:44:37




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 Re: Brush hook in reply to Buster, 01-08-2001 11:32:10  
In my (thankfully) limited experience, they are intended to cut the brush off just above the ground. One "hooks" the blade around the stump and pulls back and up sharply. I wouldn't want to clear an acre with one.



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