GHEzell;230674 I've read somewhere that this design goes back all the way to the Romans... I would make the tang wider at the tang/blade junction said:Hello George,
Back to the early bronze age actually.
And the swords and shields will be beaten into plowshares & pruning hooks! " Isaiah "
The Billhook was a short Pruner & Axe agricultural combo.
Laurence
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