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Farm and Implement Wrenches and Tools => Farm Implement Wrenches and Tools => Topic started by: blackoak on July 22, 2014, 01:23:27 AM

Title: Old hoe (garden)
Post by: blackoak on July 22, 2014, 01:23:27 AM

Picked this up at a local auction. Patent date Oct 19, 1915. I check the patent records and it shows this very type of hoe. Anybody ever seen one or have any info on this old hoe? Is this what todays  square style hoes are made after?
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Title: Re: Old hoe (garden)
Post by: Papaw on July 22, 2014, 01:38:19 AM

 Pictures? :cheesy:

Title: Re: Old hoe (garden)
Post by: blackoak on July 22, 2014, 07:28:32 AM

Quote from: Papaw on July 22, 2014, 01:38:19 AM

Pictures? :cheesy:

Can you not see the two I posted??

Title: Re: Old hoe (garden)
Post by: Branson on July 22, 2014, 07:35:12 AM

Quote from: blackoak on July 22, 2014, 01:23:27 AM

Picked this up at a local auction. Patent date Oct 19, 1915. I check the patent records and it shows this very type of hoe. Anybody ever seen one or have any info on this old hoe? Is this what todays  square style hoes are made after?

Have a couple older -- blacksmith made.  Yours is its own style; it's not the origin of the big square hoe, but a specialty hoe.

Title: Re: Old hoe (garden)
Post by: Papaw on July 22, 2014, 09:22:28 AM

Pictures didn't show up right away for me. I see them now.

Title: Re: Old hoe (garden)
Post by: john k on July 23, 2014, 08:17:41 AM

I haven't seen a store bought model like that, have two similar my father bought used, years ago he called a plantation hoe.  This very much resembles blacksmith made hoes, created by cutting a farmers disc blade in thirds or quarters, and welding pipe on for a socket.  Put in a handle and use it.   I would.

Title: Re: Old hoe (garden)
Post by: Chillylulu on July 23, 2014, 09:59:30 AM

That does look like a disc from a farmers disc harrow.  Those make the best tool stand bases.

Chilly

Title: Re: Old hoe (garden)
Post by: blackoak on July 23, 2014, 12:07:50 PM

Quote from: john k on July 23, 2014, 08:17:41 AM

I haven't seen a store bought model like that, have two similar my father bought used, years ago he called a plantation hoe.  This very much resembles blacksmith made hoes, created by cutting a farmers disc blade in thirds or quarters, and welding pipe on for a socket.  Put in a handle and use it.   I would.

I  would think this is factory made with a patent date stamped in it. I'm pretty sure a smith didn't make this one, but can see it modeled after one