Bent Wood

[George K]

Bent Wood

[taiwan_girl]

@Jolly What is that for? (Even the product description did not make sense to me. LOL)

[Mik]

It's a scythe. Used for hundreds of years to harvest wheat, hay, etc.

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik Ah, okay. Now I see it!!!!!! Thanks!!

[Jolly]

@Mik said in Bent Wood:

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?

[Mik]

Looks like a scale of some sort.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in Bent Wood:

Looks like a scale of some sort.

And...If you were raised in the South...

[LuFins Dad]

Maybe if you didn't handle your wood so roughly it wouldn't bend and break...

[Mik]

@Jolly said in Bent Wood:

@Mik said in Bent Wood:

Looks like a scale of some sort.

And...If you were raised in the South...

Weighs cotton.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in Bent Wood:

@Jolly said in Bent Wood:

@Mik said in Bent Wood:

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.