it is a saw .. of sorts, overall length at 18". I know I've seen similar tools before, but I just can't place it. Attachment 195935 Attachment 195936
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it is a saw .. of sorts, overall length at 18". I know I've seen similar tools before, but I just can't place it. Attachment 195935 Attachment 195936
I've never seen a tool quite like that; my first thought was that it was maybe a different kind of butcher's saw, but that probably doesn't make sense. Then I thought it might be a useful tool for cutting hard-to-reach limbs off trees when you're way up in the tree.
(Or bunches of bananas off banana trees??)
I've seen teeth like that on the back of a knife. They are carefully filed and shaped, and in a way that seems clear that they're not used to cut through anything wooden in the same way crosscut saw teeth are designed.
I'm thinking they are designed for something green and softer than dry wood, I think Frank's idea of a banana bunch cutter is a good one, but I've only seen people removing those with machetes.
Looking at the shape of the thing, it makes me think of something to jab in and be able to do some sawing type of cutting on the way in. The only thing I can thing of using this on is a bale of straw, but what do I know.
Here's a particularly nasty form of that saw tooth pattern, the bayonet from the 1881 Vetterli rifle used by the Swiss Army:
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That handle doesn't look like it's made for any hacking either - looks like a handle for a gentleman's saw or something.
Would be a good pumpkin cutter for really big ones!
It shares some charateristics with a flooring saw; it starts the cut in the "middle" of a board rather than at an edge and notice how the end swells out - to allow some downward pressure while making the cut, the teeth have no set- this toothing profile is not uncommon.
You ever have one of your favorite salt-water rigs swallowed by a stingray with a 3-foot wingspan? That looks exactly like something I've wished I had with me - just about the time I cut the line............
For some probably erroneous reason roots and gardening spring to mind.
Looks like an ice saw to me. Of course, I'm not an expert about ice saws, but they tend to have those large tooth patterns.
That's not to say it couldn't be used for something like that, though, even were it a different fruit.
I'd not like to cut wood with it, that's for sure. Those teeth and no hand hold other than the very end with no weight bearing on the teeth would make it not very nice to use.
Looks like some sort of push stick to me. Not for a table saw. Perhaps for moving sometihng through a chute, or along a track. To my eyes the teeth are only at the end of a rather long reach - and appear to be for grabbing rather than cutting. Fun guessing game.