I'm pretty excited about this combination-contraption I bought in York from Jim P. It looks like somebody was trying to improve the mousetrap and come up with a better combination fencing tool. The various parts and pieces all have a "home made" look about them. Portions of the handles were bent into shape and then filled with weld, the hammer head is a square block of steel welded into place, the stirrup on the hatchet head is welded and ground, etc. All in all a fair job of fabricating, but clearly not a "factory" job. I'm assuming it is a one-off prototype that some backyard inventor came up with many years ago.
The most unique feature is the wire cutter, located just below the hammer and hatchet area. The lower jaw of the wire cutter is on a rack of gear teeth, which engages gears on the handle pivots. So when you squeeze the handles together the wire cutter jaw is driven upwards and cuts the wire. Relaxing your grip on the handles allows them to spread apart, which in turn opens the wire cutter.
