Maybe tobacco knife (pic)

BrianRBM · Nov 19, 2021

I got these in a box at a farm auction. They are about sixteen inches long with a hook at the end. I was thinking maybe to cut tobacco leaves but really don't know. Would appreciate if someone could identify.....Thanks.

4play · Nov 19, 2021

They might have other names or uses but I'm familiar with calling those a sugar beet Machete

Doug-Iowa · Nov 19, 2021

What ever they are, they look like they would work good for a hand gaff for sorting fish.

BrianRBM · Nov 19, 2021

You are correct...I just researched the sugarbeet machete and there are few types, and this is one of them. Thanks. There was never any tobacco near this farm but
who knows where people get stuff.

redtom · Nov 19, 2021

Beet knives. From the old days before mechanical harvesters, when you ran through a field with a beet lifter then walked and picked them up with the prong and hacked off the top and threw them on the wagon.

Majorman · Nov 20, 2021

Over here you do not see many straight ones, ours are usually curved. Used one many times over the years, we call them beet hooks.

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