Bent Wood
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Mine's busted. Who'd a thunk these were that expensive?
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It's a scythe. Used for hundreds of years to harvest wheat, hay, etc.
Yep, an American one. The Canadian ones tend to have a different arrangement with the handles.
I have some old stuff hanging around...Crosscut saws, buck saws, froes, etc. Even had my great grandpa's broad axe until somebody stole it from my son's home. Those also have a curved handle (or at least his did) for hewing a beam or railroad tie while standing on it.
While we're talking about old stuff...The same time the broad axe went missing, part of this did, too...Y'all know what this is?
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Maybe if you didn't handle your wood so roughly it wouldn't bend and break...
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Looks like a scale of some sort.
And...If you were raised in the South...
Weighs cotton.
Correct. I'm missing one of the peas to my great-grandpa's cotton scales (he was a VERY SMALL scale cotton farmer).
We used it when slaughtering hogs and cattle.