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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: lebaron on June 18, 2012, 10:29:50 PM

Title: What is this Keen Kutter tool?
Post by: lebaron on June 18, 2012, 10:29:50 PM

Anyone know this tool. Some kind of scraper, I guess. Blade is 8" long by 2-1/4" with no markings. The tang is marked Keen Kutter and the handle is marked to, with a number KXGS5. Overall length is 22" but I think the handle has been shortend.

Title: Re: What is this Keen Kutter tool?
Post by: anglesmith on June 18, 2012, 10:51:52 PM

My guess would be a weeder that cuts off the roots under the soil surface. It should have a long handle.
Graeme

Title: Re: What is this Keen Kutter tool?
Post by: Aunt Phil on June 19, 2012, 12:54:22 AM

Looks like a stirrup hoe.

Title: Re: What is this Keen Kutter tool?
Post by: anglesmith on June 19, 2012, 03:39:16 AM

An light hoe is certainly a possibility, it all depends on  the angle of the blade relative to the handle. We probably need another photo? There were so many variations in garden tools, from country to country and in England even from county to county.
Graeme

Title: Re: What is this Keen Kutter tool?
Post by: lebaron on June 19, 2012, 07:24:21 AM

The angle is 30 degrees.

Title: Re: What is this Keen Kutter tool?
Post by: lebaron on June 19, 2012, 07:51:22 AM

Found one that looks like it. A Dutch hoe.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GARDEN-TOOL-SOLID-DUTCH-HOE-HEAD-14cm-CARBON-STEEL-WITHOUT-HANDLE-U3100-/230791141539?pt=UK_Home_Garden_GardenEquipment_HandTools_SM&hash=item35bc3958a3 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/GARDEN-TOOL-SOLID-DUTCH-HOE-HEAD-14cm-CARBON-STEEL-WITHOUT-HANDLE-U3100-/230791141539?pt=UK_Home_Garden_GardenEquipment_HandTools_SM&hash=item35bc3958a3)

Title: Re: What is this Keen Kutter tool?
Post by: Bus on June 19, 2012, 10:40:11 AM

1918 E. C. Simmons KeenKutter Catalog has it listed as a "Railroad Scuffle Hoe". $18.00 a  dozen. The 1935 Simmons catalog still lists them but pictures a different style.

Title: Re: What is this Keen Kutter tool?
Post by: lebaron on June 19, 2012, 11:33:20 AM

Thanks for everybody's help. The front of the blade has an edge for pushing and the back has en edge for pulling. Seem like the Scuffle and Dutch hoes are basically the same. Theres alot of different sizes and shapes of hoes out there. Thanks for pinning it down.

Title: Re: What is this Keen Kutter tool?
Post by: Billman49 on June 22, 2012, 09:27:37 AM

In the UK this is a Dutch hoe - they were made with rivetted blades, and also replaceable blades that fitted into a slot. Most had tangs that fitted into a hole in the handle (strengthened by a ferrule) - typical handle length 5 ft - socket fitting hoes heads were also made... Used by gardeners for general weeding.