Haynes-Bates tool

[Plyerman]

I found this fantastic old hatchet tool a couple years ago, then "lost" it in a box during the move to our new home. It turned up this week during the latest round of unpacking.






There is a hatchet of course, with a hammer head on the opposite side of it. Beneath the hatchet head are a series of "teeth" that function as a large alligator wrench.


There are plier jaws too, along with notches for cutting fence wire:






Between the handles there is a leather hole punch, a large knife, a small can opener blade, a flat screwdriver, and a corkscrew.







I cannot imagine the corkscrew would be very convenient to use.

Made by the Haynes-Bates Manufacturing Company of Chicago.

[mikeswrenches]

Very cool Bob!  Another one I've never seen before.  Thanks for sharing.

Mike

[Bus]

I do have one but not nearly as nice as this one.

[bonneyman]

Very cool, but, I don't think a corkscrew would be a wise part of it. You shouldn't be hitting the wine while you use a hatchet! Just saying.

[Plyerman]

Yeah, I don't know if it would be easier to spin the tool and hold the bottle still, or to spin the wine bottle and hold the tool still...? Either way seems like it would end with a broken bottle.

[stillfishin]

That's quite the combo-tool. Thanks for sharing pics Bob

[jimwrench]

 Remarkable shape for tool with 1905 patent date. Generally those old multitools have broken or chipped part somewhere. Don't see any on yours. Would estimate value at close to $1000  Think I'd put it in the case with the better tools.

[oldtools]

WOW!! That is a cool tool, guess the corkscrew rotates 90deg. out from handle (slot clearance when handle closed) back in 1900s wine wasn't only thing corked..

[Robert anderson]

The one I have is in alot better shape then the on picture, would like to share pictures, don't know how on this page

[Northwoods]

In my (much) younger days, I used to enjoy spinning the bottle.
Now, I prefer to spin the corkscrew.
I have to agree with bonneyman.  The man who put a corkscrew on a hatchet certainly had a wicked sense of humor.  Like putting Red Hots in the birth control dispenser.

[Aunt Phil]

Given the date I wonder if it wasn't a tool designed to be marketed for the pending trench was just over the horizon.  The corkscrew certainly would have made it popular with French troops, and German officers.

[bill300d]

Very nice piece

[Plyerman]

The one I have is in alot better shape then the on picture, would like to share pictures, don't know how on this page

Welcome to Tool Talk Robert! We'd love to see pictures of yours. There are instructions for posting photos in this thread here:   

Click: http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=61.0

[john k]

If I were to use this for a hatchet, would definitely wear a heavy leather glove, with the way the handle halves meet.   At the point in time of 05, most medications had corks too, even the tiny Iodine bottles.   Interesting tool.