Tool identification and use?

[happyhumph]

I think it's for squashing Spanish slugs with - you know how big they get

[Greenleaves]

I think it's for squashing Spanish slugs with - you know how big they get

Nutter....

[veggiechicken]

Too dark now and i have left the plot.....or lost it!

Handle is standard hoe length VC

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The attached is the closest I can find on the tinterweb but mine has more acute angles

Trust you to have one with a cute angle
I'm trying to understand how it would be used - presumably drawn toward you rather than pushed away. Would the edge of the blade slice or is the angle wrong?

My simple mind needs to know how to use it before deciding what it is

[Snadger]

I don't know what its proper name is but I know I would use it as a tattie planting hoe initialy then as a ridging hoe between the rows for earthing up!

[Greenleaves]

Trust you to have one with a cute angle
I'm trying to understand how it would be used - presumably drawn toward you rather than pushed away. Would the edge of the blade slice or is the angle wrong?

My simple mind needs to know how to use it before deciding what it is

You draw it towards

[Greenleaves]

I don't know what its proper name is but I know I would use it as a tattie planting hoe initialy then as a ridging hoe between the rows for earthing up!

My plan Snadger

[Potstubsdustbins]

A Warren hoe is also called a ridging hoe.

Looking at the head (which seems heavily made by todays standards) and considering how long it has been in use could it have been made by say a local blacksmith? Or did your granddad have an engineering back ground if so its quite likely he made it himself.

[Kier]

its a ducks foot tine its the wrong way up the other end fits on a frame and they are used for inter row weeding, ransomes used then on their small track machine mg5 or behind a small tractor
I still have some

[Bigmallly]

..............although they may be used "the wrong way round" on some machines, I also think that 80/90 years ago, it is quite feasible that this is the original tool that was used to work the land & was adapted for machinery.

[Bill Door]

Oh I have got it!

Its a snooker cue rest. Used for tables with big balls.

Bill

[Greenleaves]

A Warren hoe is also called a ridging hoe.

Looking at the head (which seems heavily made by todays standards) and considering how long it has been in use could it have been made by say a local blacksmith? Or did your granddad have an engineering back ground if so its quite likely he made it himself.

My grandad was a farmhand Potty

[Potstubsdustbins]

Then probably the local blacksmith. My father born in 1901 was an engineer for Arthur Barbers on Quorn Road in Nottingham, after he died I inherited 3 boxes of his tools among them were quite a few hand made tools for special jobs.

I don't know what era were talking about, but I doubt there were many propriety hand tools around in farming communities, most would have been made to order in the local smithy.

[Kier]

I have a 1932 tractor that has a tool bar to fit that tool its laying on its back so if you stood it up and turned it around that's how it would be used , some had holes in the top for height adjustment others were clamped in the frame , its too heavy to be used by hand, the foot can be changed for a right angle half ducks foot to reach up to the side of the rows or a straight foot for cultivating
earlier they would have been used on a horse drawn implement or horse drawn steerage hoe

[Greenleaves]

We have a farm heritage centre close by so took for them to see.

It a furrow hoe, and hand tool used from around 1905. The blades were made to a set pattern but a Smith would set the neck to the user which would be dependent on height.

Although heavy by modern standards it was made to deal with heavy soil.

Thanks for the suggestions

[boatsman]

To me it looked like a Plymouth hoe used for drawing conclusions.