Gary Radice
08-26-2010, 11:28 AM
A friend of mine sent me this message and pix and I'm stumped. Any thoughts?
"This was in my garage. I'm not sure how it came to be in my possession. I ended up using it today to edge the sidewalk- it did a pretty good job of getting between the sidewalk and the soil, and ripped out the grass and weeds that were spilling over onto the walkway. while I was doing this, I noticed that it cut on the pull. And, I wondered why the teeth are only on the tip. It is not a knife-- the metal plate is 1.4mm on all sides. the 'teeth' are not uniform, but look more like what you would find on a circular saw. I have search google, and wikipedia and have not been able to figure out the original use of this devise. There are no obvious markings on the blade, nor the handle. The rivets are uniform on both sides. There are wear marks on the metal on one side that run along the 'cutting edge' to the top of the handle attachment on one side, but on the other side of the blade these markings run to the bottom of the attachment point, indicating at one time it was use in a fashion that resulted in abrasion marks coming from different arcs of movement. It's general shape is similar to a knife one might use for skinning an animal (suggested by a friend on Facebook) but it is not a knife, and the skinning knives do not have serrated edges."
"This was in my garage. I'm not sure how it came to be in my possession. I ended up using it today to edge the sidewalk- it did a pretty good job of getting between the sidewalk and the soil, and ripped out the grass and weeds that were spilling over onto the walkway. while I was doing this, I noticed that it cut on the pull. And, I wondered why the teeth are only on the tip. It is not a knife-- the metal plate is 1.4mm on all sides. the 'teeth' are not uniform, but look more like what you would find on a circular saw. I have search google, and wikipedia and have not been able to figure out the original use of this devise. There are no obvious markings on the blade, nor the handle. The rivets are uniform on both sides. There are wear marks on the metal on one side that run along the 'cutting edge' to the top of the handle attachment on one side, but on the other side of the blade these markings run to the bottom of the attachment point, indicating at one time it was use in a fashion that resulted in abrasion marks coming from different arcs of movement. It's general shape is similar to a knife one might use for skinning an animal (suggested by a friend on Facebook) but it is not a knife, and the skinning knives do not have serrated edges."