Tool Code Number |
Tool name |
How it’s used |
Dimensions (in) |
Dimensions (cm) |
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WT001/S005 |
Side Axe (head only) |
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WT002/W034 |
Twybill |
Drill 2 holes and use blade for cutting between them to make a slot. Other end is used to hook waste material from slot |
Handle length: 6, Blade length: 11 |
Handle length: 15, Blade length: 28 |
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WT003/G024 |
Bolster chisel |
Hit with a hammer to split stone/brick to specific sizes with a square edge |
Total length: 7, Head length: 1 1/4, Head width: 2 |
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WT004/F018 |
Billhook (No.9 – Newtown pattern?) |
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Blade length: 9 |
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WT006/W022 |
Drawknife |
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Handle length: 4 1/4, Blade length: 14 |
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WT007/F035 |
Bill hook |
Like an axe for chopping branches |
Handle length: 5, Blade length: 6 1/2 |
Handle length: 12, Blade length: 17 |
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WT008 |
Slater’s hammer (?) |
Unsure |
Head length: 13, Handle length: 11 1/4 |
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WT009/F007 |
Splitting wedge |
For splitting timber along its length. Sometimes used to keep saw cut open when felling trees by hand. |
Length: 8 3/8, Width: 2 , Depth: 1 1/4 |
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WT010/F008 |
Wood splitting wedge (cleaving wedge) |
Riving or splitting timber |
Total length: 7 3/8, Width: 2 1/2 |
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WT011/G017 |
Slater’s hammer |
Used for splitting and dressing roofing stone. The slatter would shape the stone to the correct size as he worked. |
Head length: 10 |
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WT012/S039 |
Cooper’s Anvil |
The anvil is set upright in a block of wood, and used when punching rivet holes in hoops and when hammering over the rivets when joining the hoops. The holes in the top are used for punching rivet holes in hoops. |
Total length: 27 5/8, Head length: 7, Spike length: 5, Face: 1 7/8 x 2 3/160 |
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WT013/S002 |
Hole Punch |
Hold over leather and hit hard with a hammer |
Total length: 4 1/2, Handle width: 3/8, Cutting hole diameter: 3/4 |
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WT015/F038 |
Hand axe (Kent) |
General |
Handle length: 13, Blade length: 5 5/8, Blade width: 3 1/2 |
Handle length: 34, Blade length: 15, Blade width: 9 |
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WT016/W025 |
Spokeshave |
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Total length: 10, Blade length: 3 |
Total length: 25, Blade length: 7 |
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WT017/F017 |
Billhook? |
Pointing spars, cutting and laying edges etc. Question as to whether this is a broken hurdling tool (pointed tip of blade broken?) |
Total length: 14 3/4, Blade length: 9 1/2 |
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WT018/S004 |
Pick (needs handle) |
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WT019 |
Colliers pick |
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Total length: 17 |
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WT021/S032 |
Rounding and trimming adze |
The knife edge part is used to cut the chime (see Salaman p.156) which is the bevel edge at the top of the staves. The other end is probably used as a hammer to knock down the hoops |
Head length: 10 |
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WT022/F040 |
Axe (Kent) |
General use |
Handle length: 14 1/2, Blade length: 7 1/2, Blade width: 4 1/2 |
Handle length: 36, Blade length: 19, Blade width: 11 |
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WT023/A017 |
Vegetable scythe |
Small scythe to cut turnips etc. where they come out of the earth |
Handle length: 5 1/2, Blade length: 9 1/4, Blade width: 1 1/4 |
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WT024/G020 |
Rounder plane |
Used for rounding things such as rake and fork handles, trenails and dowels, putting a round taper on ladder rungs and working spoke tongues. The stick to be rounded is held in a vice or brake, and one end of the stick is placed in the mouth of the rounder, which cuts circumferentially across the grain when turned hand-over-hand. |
Total length: 13 1/4, Height: 4, Max. capacity: 2″ round |
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WT025/W027 |
Spokeshave |
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Total length: 18, Blade length: 2 5/8 |
Total length: 46 |
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WT026/F031 |
Bill hook (Newtown style) |
General rural work |
Total length: 14 3/4, Handle length: 5 3/4 |
Total length: 37.5, Handle length: 14.5 |
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WT027/F005 |
Bark peeling iron |
Peeling bark off oak. Coppice worker |
Handle length: 6, Blade length: 2 3/4 |
Handle length: 15, Blade length: 7.2 |
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WT028/F003 |
Bark peeler |
Peeling bark from felled trees. Often used in conjunction with a shaving (peeling or rinding) brake |
Total length: 12 3/8, Blade length: 9 |
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WT029/W026 |
Adze |
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Total length: 32 3/4, Head length: 9, Head width: 3 5/8 |
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WT030/S009 |
Side Axe (head only) |
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WT031/F043 |
Axe |
Chopping |
Total length: 17, Handle length: 15, Total width: 6 1/4 |
Total length: 45, Handle length: 38.5, Total width: 16 |
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WT032/A032 |
Sickle |
Cutting crops – wheat, oat, barley, rye etc. |
Handle length: 5 3/8, Handle diameter: 1 1/2, Straight distance between base and tip of blade: 17 |
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WT033/F042 |
Axe (head only) |
General |
Length: 9 , Width: 5 1/2 |
Length: 23, Width: 14 |
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WT034/G029 |
Key spanner |
A ‘lever’ for tightening something |
Total length: 5 1/4 |
Total length: 13, Diameter: 2.5 |
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WT036/S001 |
Pick |
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WT037/W010 |
Spiral auger |
A boring tool |
Total length: 14 3/8, Spiral length: 6 1/2, Spiral width: 1, Socket inside diameter: 1 1/80 |
Total length: 37.5, Sprial length: 16.5, Spiral width: 2.5, Socket inside diameter: 2.80 |
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WT038 |
Twist auger |
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Total length: 12 1/4, Spiral length: 5 7/8, Spiral width: 3/4 |
Total length: 31, Spiral length: 15, Spiral width: 2 |
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WT040/F004 |
Bark peeler |
Billhook used to take off one long strip of bark and then the peeler is used (along with your thumbs) to peel off the bark |
Total length: 8, Blade length: 5, Handle length: 3, Diameter: 10 |
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WT041/G026 |
Chisel |
Used for cutting timber/hitting with a hammer to cut timber |
Total length: 11, Handle length: 5, Blade length: 5 1/2, Blade width: 3/40 |
Total length: 28.5, Handle length: 13, Blade length: 14, Blade width: 20 |
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WT042/F021 |
Billhook (Kent pattern?) |
Cutting and laying hedges, faggoting, splitting poles |
Total length: 16 3/8, Handle length: 5 3/4 |
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WT043/W028 |
Gouge |
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Total length: 19 1/8, Blade and socket length: 14 1/8, Blade width: 1 1/2 |
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WT044 |
Twist auger |
Used for boring long deep holes |
Total length: 12 1/4, Spiral length: 5 7/8, Spiral width: 3/4 |
Total length: 31, Spiral length: 15, Spiral width: 2 |
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WT045/G018 |
Soldering iron |
Heat up in a fire and run the hot copper end with solder onto joint to make the solder run. Use with flame |
Total length: 16, Handle length: 6 3/4, Ferrule length: 3, Ferrule diameter: 1, Shaft length: 4 |
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WT050/S021 |
Compasses |
To find the correct radius for the cask head. Done by stepping off round the croze groove until points meet after six steps. |
Leg length: 12 3/16 |
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WT051/S025 |
Blade (part of WT104) |
A blade from an inside shave, a cooper’s tool used for shaping the inside of cask staves |
Total length: 6 3/8, Thickness: 1/8 |
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WT053/G028 |
Leather bodkin |
Push through leather |
Total length: 7 1/4, Blade length: 3 1/2 |
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WT054 |
Bit (extending) |
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Total length: 9 |
Total length: 23 |
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WT056/G023 |
Draw knife |
Often used in conjunction with a shave horse to shape wood from rough to square or square to round. |
Total length: 17 , Blade length: 9 5/8, Handle length: 5 |
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WT057/G022 |
Deep mortice chisel |
Used in woodworking to make mortices and similar joints. Mortice chisels have an extra strong blade in order to resist bending when levering out the waste in the mortice. |
Head length: 17 |
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WT058/S033 |
Flagging iron (English pattern, not Scottish) |
Used by coopers in the process of flagging – in order to prevent leakage, dry rushes (flags) are inserted into the croze groove and between the separate parts of the head; and after repairs between the staves at their chime ends. The flagging iron is used mainly when making repairs. |
Total length: 23 , Total width: 5 |
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WT059/F045 |
Billhook |
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Total length: 14, Blade length: 9 1/2 |
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WT060/S010 |
Small Axe (head only) |
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WT061/A018 |
Billhook (Yorkshire pattern) |
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Head length: 14 |
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WT062/S035 |
Hammer adze |
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Head length: 9 1/2, Head width: 2 3/8, Handle length: 10 |
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WT063/S019 |
Cooper’s hollowing knife |
Pulled towards user to shave wood down |
Total length: 14 1/2, Total width: 4 3/4, Blade width: 1 1/4 |
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WT065 |
Hacking knife |
Removing broken glass and putty from a frame prior to re-glazing. Back of blade hammered to remove broken glass. |
Total length: 9 3/16, Blade length: 5 |
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WT066/W029 |
Drawknife |
As any drawknife, but it is a lovely tool for fine work |
Total length: 8 1/4, Blade length: 5, Blade width: 1/2, Handle length: 2 1/4, Handle diameter: 3/4 |
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WT067/S007 |
Hammer (short-handelled) |
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WT068/W035 |
Side axe |
As per a side axe – used for splitting wood as if a wedge |
Total length: 6 1/2 |
Total length: 16.5 |
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WT069/W024 |
Drawknife |
Coopering, staves, chamfering |
, Total width: 2 3/8 |
Total length: 34, Total width: 6.3 |
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WT072/A003 |
Bill hook |
Backward pointing hook can be used for gathering next piece of wood. Handle may have been shortened, making the tool a slasher |
Total length: 22, Handle length: 12, Blade and socket length: 17 1/2 |
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WT074 |
Carpet knife |
Cutting carpet |
Handle length: 4 1/2, Handle thickness: 1/2, Blade length: 3 |
Handle length: 11.5 |
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WT076/W005 |
Auger, bull-nose pattern |
See WT119 |
Total length: 24 3/4, Length of spiral: 6 1/2, Spiral width: 1/2 |
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WT077 |
Spiral auger |
Boring tool |
Total length: 31, Spiral length: 9 1/2, Spiral width: 2 1/4, Socket inside diameter: 1 5/80 |
Total length: 78.8, Spiral length: 24.2, Spiral width: 5.7, Socket inside diameter: 4.20 |
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WT078/W018 |
Twist auger |
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Total length: 23 3/4, Spiral width: 1 |
Total length: 60.5, Spiral width: 2.5 |
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WT079/S012 |
Cooper’s side axe |
Right handed use, to shave the barrel staves (we think handle is reversed for left handed people) |
Handle length: 14 3/4, Handle diameter (oval): 2 1/4 x 1 1/4, Blade length: 10 3/4, Blade width: 5 1/40 |
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WT080/S006 |
Scotch pattern auger |
For wider holds in wood that don’t wander. Much smaller than usual auger |
Total length: 10, Spiral width:1, Socket inside diameter: 1 |
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WT081/S029 |
Cooper’s downright shave |
Finishing outside of cask |
Total length: 11 3/4, Steel plate: 4 3/4 x 2 1/2 |
Total length: 30, Steel plate: 12 x 6.4 |
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WT082/W013 |
Auger blade |
Boring holes (needs handle – ‘eyed’) |
Total length: 29 1/4, Spiral length: 9, Handle length: 3 1/2 |
Total length: 74, Spiral length: 22.5, Handle length: 9 |
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WT083/W032 |
Brace |
With bits for drilling |
Total length: 10, Total height: 6 1/8 |
Total length: 25.5 |
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WT084/W003 |
Auger |
For drilling holes for dowelling, pegging |
Total length: 24, Spiral width: 7/8 |
Total length: 62 |
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WT085/S003 |
Barrel Auger and Bung |
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WT086/S040 |
Chive |
Walter thinks it was used to plane the inside of the top of the barrel ready to accept the lid of the barrel |
Total length: 16, Stock width: 4 1/4, Blade width: 2 1/4 |
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WT087/S027 |
Heading swift |
As a spoke shave on wooden barrels |
Total length: 13, Width: 4 1/4, Height: 2 |
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WT089/F041 |
Hand axe (Kent) |
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Handle length: 16, Blade length: 6, Blade width: 3 1/2 |
Handle length: 41, Blade length: 15, Blade width: 9 |
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WT090/W008 |
Twist auger |
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Total length: 52.5, Spiral length: 14.5, Socket diameter: 2 |
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WT091/S041 |
Chive |
It is used to trim the stave tops to accept the head. It is essentially a plane with a radiussed plane knife |
Total length: 14, Blade width: 1 3/4, Blade length: 7 |
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WT092/S015 |
Barrel auger |
Hand drill to drill a tapered hole for the bung |
Total length: 11 1/2, Handle diameter: 1 1/2, Shank length: 2 3/4, Taper length: 7 1/40 |
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WT094/S022 |
Cooper’s driver (English Pattern) / Hoop driver |
Believed to be used to knock hazel barrel hoops on wooden barrels. Hit with a hammer and steel top ring holds wood together to prevent wood top from splitting. |
Total length: 5, Handle length: 2 1/4, Head length: 2 3/4 |
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WT095/A033 |
Handle sickle/scythe |
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Blade length: 30, Linking rod length: 17, Ferrule: 1, Handle length: 130 |
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WT096/G014 |
Hammer |
General whacking |
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Total length: 35, Handle length: 25.5, Head length: 9.5, Head width: 140 |
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WT097/S028 |
Cooper’s buzz |
Finishing outside of cask |
Total length: 13, Total width: 3 3/8 |
Total length: 33, Total width: 8.5 |
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WT098/S014 |
Curved side axe |
Maybe for shaping staves |
Handle length: 12, Blade length: 6 1/4 |
Handle length: 30, Blade length: 15 |
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WT099/G015 |
Large reel (not a tool!) |
Used in the cotton industry to wind cotton onto |
Total length: 11 1/2, Reel end diameter: 5, Reel end thickness: 3/4, Centre diameter: 20 |
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WT100/W019 |
Spiral auger |
Drilling holes |
Total length: 27, Handle length: 14 |
Total length: 69, Handle length: 36, Spiral length: 23 |
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WT102/W002 |
Wood auger |
By hand to drill holes for fence posts etc. |
Total length: 28, Spiral length 8, Spiral width: 1, Screw tip length: 5/80 |
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WT108/W017 |
Twist auger |
Used with wooden handle inserted in eye for wide deep holes without wandering |
Shank length: 17 3/4, Socket diameter: 1 1/8 |
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WT104/S024 |
Inside shave (goes with WT051) |
Used for shaping the inside of barrel staves. |
Width: 8 1/4, Length: 4, Depth (max): 1 3/4, Mouth: 1 1/2 x 5/80 |
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WT105/W001 |
Twist auger |
For boring deep larger sized holes without wandering |
Total length: 23 1/2, Spiral length: 8 1/2, Spiral width: 7/8 |
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WT106/W004 |
Spiral Auger |
For boring holes |
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Total length: 59.5, Spiral length: 18 |
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WT107/S036 |
Topping plane (right hand) |
To finish the chiming (bevelled top edge of stave) use a topping plane to square off the ends of the staves before levelling the inside surface with a chive. |
Total length: 15 1/2, Block width: 2 3/4, Blade width: 2, Blade length: 6 3/40 |
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WT108/W017 |
Scotch Auger |
Used with wooden handle inserted in eye for wide deep holes without wandering |
Total length: 24 7/8, Spiral length: 6 3/4, Spiral width: 1 |
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WT109/W006 |
Twist auger, scotch pattern |
See WT119 |
Total length: 24 3/8, Spiral length: 7, Spiral width: 3/4 |
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WT110/S031 |
Buzz shave |
Used to smooth the outside of a cask. |
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WT111/S013 |
Cooper’s adze |
Ued for forcing dried rushes into the croze groove |
Handle length: 4, Blade length: 7 1/2 |
Handle length: 10 |
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WT112/W007 |
Twist auger |
See WT119 Boring deep wide holes without wandering |
Total length: 24, Spiral length: 6 1/2, Spiral width: 5/8, Handle length: 8 3/4, Handle width 7/8 to 3/4 |
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WT113/W009 |
Twist auger – Scotch pattern |
See WT119 Boring deep wide holes without wandering |
Total length: 25 3/8, Spiral length: 9, Spiral width: 5/8 |
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WT114/S038 |
Croze plane |
Spun round top of cask to make groove (croze) for the cask head. |
Total length: 18 1/2, Total width: 6 1/2 |
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WT115/S030 |
Smoothing plane |
Shaving over wood to smooth it |
Total length: 22, Total width: 3, Total height: 3, Cutting blade length: 4 5/8, Cutting blade width: 2 1/4 |
Total length: 56, Total width: 8, Total height: 8, Cutting blade length: 12, Cutting blade width: 6 |
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WT116/W016 |
Auger Gedge pattern (twist bit) |
Boring deep accurate holes of larger diameter |
Total length: 20 1/2, Spiral length: 8, Spiral width: 1 1/8 |
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WT117/W023 |
Chisel |
As a chisel! |
Handle length: 2 5/8, Ferrule length: 5/8, Blade length: 2 1/2 |
Handle length: 6.7, Ferrule length: 1.1, Blade length: 6.4 |
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WT118/S037 |
Croze plane (hawksbill teeth and guard) |
Spun round top of cask to make groove (croze) for the cask head. |
Total length: 18 1/2, Total width: 6 1/2 |
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WT119/W020 |
Auger bit – Gedge pattern |
Boring wide deep holes without wandering, especially in end grain or at an angle to wood as no spurs to foul before lead engaged |
Total length: 20 1/2, Spiral length: 8, Spiral width: 1 1/4 |
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WT120/W015 |
Auger, spiral |
Used for boring long deep holes |
Total length: 24 |
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WT121/S026 |
Heading swift |
For use as a spokeshave on barrels |
Total length: 14 1/2, Total width: 5 |
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WT122/F009 |
Hand axe |
Conventionally used in forestry, but probably for small work |
Handle length (below head): 11 1/2, Head length: 5, Blade length: 3 |
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WT123/S034 |
Rounding adze – Scotch pattern |
For jointing and fixing wooden hoops. For beating truss hoops over caks. Cutting the chime at the barrel rim. |
Handle length: 10 5/8, Head length: 9, Cutting face width: 2 1/2 |
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WT124/G021 |
Upholsters webbing tensioning pliers |
Webbing was held in the pliers then levered over an edge |
Total length: 8 1/4, Total width: 2 5/8 |
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WT125 |
Plough gauge |
Used for cutting leather strips for bridles etc. |
Handle length 3 1/2 |
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WT126/S017 |
Coopers jigger |
Cutting chiv and chime |
Handle length: 4 3/8, Blade length: 14, Diameter: 1 3/8 |
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WT127/W033 |
Wooden mallet |
Hammering |
, Handle length: 5 1/2, Head length: 6 |
Total length: 29, Handle length: 14, Head length: 15 |
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WT128/W014 |
Auger blade (possibly Scotch pattern with barrel eye, Salaman, p.32) |
Boring holes (according to Walter it was used for boring chair holes |
Total length: 28 1/8, Spiral length: 10, Socket diameter: 1 3/4 |
Total length: 71.5, Spiral length: 25.5, Socket diameter: 4 |
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WT129/S023 |
Hoop driver |
Either on steel or hazel hoops to knock them into position |
Total length: 6 |
Total length: 15 |
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WT130/S018 |
Hollowing drawknife |
Shaping staves |
Blade length: 6 1/2, Handle length: 5 1/8 |
Blade length: 16, Handle length: 13 |
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WT131/A039 |
Hay fork – short handle |
3 types: 1) short handle to turn hay after mowing in the field; 2) medium handle to lift hay onto the hay cart; 3) long handle to lift hay into high hay loft |
Handle + socket length: 58, Head length: 8 1/2 |
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WT132/S011 |
Rounding Box |
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WT133 |
Wooden spade |
Used for wet clay – slides off easily |
Handle length: 35, Blade length: 12, Metal length: 5, Metal width: 7 1/20 |
Handle length: 89, Blade length: 30, Metal length: 13, Metal width: 190 |
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WT134/G027 |
Tent peg |
To fix guy rope |
Length: 12, Width: 2 5/8 |
Length: 30.5, Width: 6.7 |
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WT136/A041 |
Pitchfork |
Medium length fork |
Total length: 82, Head length: 19, Head width: 8 |
Total length: 208, Head length: 48, Head width: 20 |
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WT137 |
Spade |
Digging post holes? |
Total length: 38, Head length: 16, Head tip width: 3 |
Total length: 96, Head length: 40 |
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WT140/A040 |
Pitchfork |
Long fork for lifting hay onto top of stacks |
Total length: 95, Head length: 14 |
Total length: 241, Head length: 35 |
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WT141 |
Hay rake |
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Total length: 159, Head width: 73 |
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WT142/A036 |
Slasher |
Cutting/clearing brambles etc. |
Handle length: 35, Blade + socket length: 13 1/2 |
Handle length: 89, Blade + socket length: 35 |
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WT143 |
Spade |
Digging post holes |
Head length: 15 1/2, Socket length: 14 |
Head length: 39, Socket length: 37 |
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WT147/S020 |
Compasses |
Used for stepping off divisions/dividing; used to measure the heads of the cask to ensure a proper fit – the radius of the cask top was taken and measure six times round to obtain the size of the head |
Leg length: 12 |
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WT150/W012 |
Auger (Scotch pattern with barrel eye) |
For boring deep clean-sided holes in wood |
Total length: 9 7/8, Screw width: 1, Eye diameter: 15/16 |
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WT151/F002 |
Felling axe |
Long handle allows both hands to be used. Has heavier head than most axes. Obviously once used for felling trees, but now more often used for rounding and laying in (making a wedge to start a saw cut) |
Total length: 36, Blade length: 8 |
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WT154/G002 |
Machete |
To cut undergrowth |
Total length: 18, Handle length: 5 1/4, Blade length: 12 3/4, Blade width: 20 |
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WT155 |
Hay rake |
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Handle length: 68, Head width: 30, Tine length: 4 |
Handle length: 173, Head width: 76, Tine length: 10 |
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WT156/F001 |
Axe |
Used for cutting a mortise through the bottom of a tree with large basal roots. When the mortise is cut, a saw is inserted and when to fell the basal roots are cut. |
Handle length (inc eye): 34 1/2, Handle width (max): 4 |
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WT159/A038 |
Hay knife |
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Blade length: 22 5/8, Blade width: 6 1/2, Total head length: 27 1/2, Handle length: 6 + 22 1/20 |
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WT160/A010 |
Billhook |
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Total length: 15, Blade length: 8 1/2 |
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WT161/A034 |
Sickle |
Sweeping motion to cut grass |
Blade length/cutting face: 16 |
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WT163 |
Bill hook |
Slashing to cut bottom of tree |
Total length: 16, Handle length: 5 1/2, Ferrule length: 1 , Blade length: 10 1/20 |
Total length: 41, Handle length: 14, Ferrule length: 3, Blade length: 270 |
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WT170/FLOOR |
Stock knife and pin |
Cutting timber. |
Total length: 36 |
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WT172/F022 |
Bill hook |
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Handle length: 5, Blade length: 10 |
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WT174/A042 |
Slasher (English/heavy) |
Used to clear hedge bottom of rough vegetation such as brambles before hedgelaying |
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Handle length: 86, Blade + socket length: 42 |
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WT183/F010 |
Billhook (Shropshire Woodman’s pattern) |
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Blade length: 10 |
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WT184/F024 |
Bill hook |
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Total length: 40, Handle + ferrule length: 14.5, Blade length: 25.5 |
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WT190/F012 |
Billhook (Walter thinks it’s a Shropshire pattern) |
Cutting and laying hedges, pointing stakes etc. |
Total length: 15 5/16, Blade length: 10 |
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WT195/A023 |
Billhook |
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Total length: 16, Blade length: 10 |
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WT196 |
Cleaver |
Splitting timber |
Total length: 13 3/16, Blade: 7 5/8 |
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WT198/F026 |
Billhook (Dorset, Epsom or West of England type) |
For thin branches slashed with upward stroke (perferrably 1 or 2 strokes – 3 loses money). Typically used on hazel, and also birch. Start from inside woods out towards the ride, then work back in from ride trimming branches. As you trip, sort into piles by wood and diameter type (what it was going to be sold as, eg hazel for walking sticks, hazel for hedge stakes and net posts, birch for besom brooms) |
Total length: 15 3/8, Blade length: 9 3/4 |
Total length: 39, Blade length: 25 |
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WT199/F019 |
Billhook (Newtown pattern) |
Cutting and laying hedges, pointing stakes etc. |
Total length: 15 1/4, Blade length: 9 |
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WT200/F014 |
Billhook (Newtown pattern?) |
Pointing stakes, cutting and laying hedges etc. |
Total length: 14 5/8, Blade length: 9 |
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WT201/A043 |
Bill hook |
cCutting and hooking |
Handle length 12, Blade14 |
30, 36 |
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WT202/A006 |
Bill hook |
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Handle length: 6, Blade length: 10 |
Handle length: 25, Blade length: 15 |
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WT203/A026 |
Billhook |
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Total length: 16, Blade length: 10 |
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WT204 – NOT FOR COLLECTION |
Bill hook |
Slashing bottom of trees |
Handle length: 3, Ferrule length: 1, Blade length: 9, Blade width: 2 1/20 |
Handle length: 7.5, Ferrule length: 2.5, Blade length: 23, Blade width: 6.50 |
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WT205/A015 |
Turnip topper |
End driven into turnip to pick it up then turnip top cut off – top thrown one way, turnip thrown other |
Total length: 13 1/2, Handle length: 5 1/4 |
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WT206/A031 |
Vegetable scythe |
Small scythe to cut turnips etc where they come out of the earth |
Handle + ferrule length: 5 3/4, Blade length: 9 3/4, Blade width: 1 1/4 |
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WT207/F015 |
Billhook |
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Blade length: 10, Blade width (max): 4 1/2, Handle length: 5 |
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WT208/G001 |
Cleaver |
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Total length: 13 1/2, Blade length: 7 |
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WT209/G011 |
Cleaver |
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Total length: 13, Blade length: 6 1/2 |
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WT211/G009 |
Billhook/cleaver |
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Total length: 14, Blade length: 9 |
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WT212/A004 |
Bill hook |
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Handle length: 6, Blade length: 10 1/4 |
, Blade length: 26 |
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WT213/F006 |
Bark peeler |
Peeling bark from felled trees. Often used in conjunction with a shaving (peeling or rinding) brake |
Total length: 13 1/2, Blade length: 8 |
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WT214/F034 |
Bill hook (Dorset, Epsom or West of England shape) |
As a short handled axe |
Handle length: 4 3/4, Blade length: 10 |
Handle length: 12, Blade length: 25 |
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WT215 – NOT FOR COLLECTION |
Side axe |
To trim (for example) a chair leg. A side axe allows just a sliver to be shaved off |
Handle length: 15, Blade length: 6 1/2, Blade width: 4 3/4 |
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WT216/F036 |
Bill hook (Suffolk or West of England pattern) |
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Handle length: 6, Blade length: 7 |
Handle length: 15, Blade length: 18 |
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WT218/G013 |
Cleaver |
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Total length: 12 1/2, Blade length: 6 1/2 |
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WT219/F032 |
Bill hook |
Looks to have been a tool used for trimming turnips but has had an extra piece fire-welded onto the back |
, Blade length: 10 |
Handle length: 12, Blade length: 26 |
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WT220/G004 |
Bill hook |
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Blade length: 8 1/2 |
Blade length: 22 |
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WT221/A021 |
Billhook (Yorkshire pattern) |
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Total length: 15 1/4, Blade length: 8 |
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WT224/F028 |
Bill hook |
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, Blade length: 10 1/2 |
Handle length: 12, Blade length: 27 |
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WT225/A027 |
Billhook? Turnip knife? |
If a turnip knfe, the spike is used to lift the turnip and the blade used to remove the tops |
Total length: 15 1/2, Blade: 10 |
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WT226/F029 |
Bill hook |
Cutting/laying hedges, splitting laths etc. |
Handle + ferrule length: 5 1/2, Blade length: 10 1/2 |
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WT227/A012 |
Light slasher |
Thought to have had long handle originally used to slash hedges/undergrowth |
Total length: 18 3/4, Blade length: 12 |
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WT230/F023 |
Billhook (spar hook – similar to Kent pattern) |
For cutting hurdles and thatching spars |
Total length: 13 1/8, Blade length: 8 |
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WT231/A029 |
Billhook |
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Total length: 16, Blade length: 10 |
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WT232/F033 |
Bill hook (left-handed) |
Cutting spars for thatch |
Handle + ferrule length: 5 9/16, Handle width: 1 1/8, Blade length: 7, Blade width (max): 3 7/80 |
Handle + ferrule length: 14.2, Handle width: 2.9, Blade length: 17.9, Blade width (max): 980 |
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WT233/A014 |
Slasher |
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Total length: 24, Blade + socket length: 15, Blade length: 8 |
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WT236/F020 |
Billhook |
The notch possibly used to push stems forward or catch them |
Blade length: 10, Blade width (max): 5 1/2 |
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WT237/G007 |
Cleaver |
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Total length: 14, Blade length: 8 |
Total length: 35.5, Blade length: 20 |
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WT238/F030 |
Bill hook |
Cutting/laying hedges, splitting laths etc. |
Handle length: 5 1/2, Blade length 9 1/2 |
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WT240/F044 |
Bill hook (Isle of Wight pattern) |
Harvesting and splitting wood |
Handle + ferrule length: 5 3/4, Blade length: 12 |
Handle + ferrule length: 14.5, Blade length: 30.3 |
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WT241/A024 |
Billhook |
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Total length: 14, Blade length: 9 |
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WT242/A019 |
Bill hook |
Turnip harvesting/splitting/cutting; Woodland crafts |
Handle + ferrule length: 5 5/8, Blade length: 8 5/8, Blade width (max): 4 1/2 |
Handle + ferrule length: 14.3, Blade length: 21.6, Blade width (max): 11.4 |
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WT243/A007 |
Bill hook |
Cutting/laying hedges, splitting laths etc. |
Handle + ferrule length: 6 3/8, Blade length: 10 |
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WT246/F013 |
Billhook (Newtown pattern) |
For pointing stakes, cutting and laying hedges etc. |
Total length: 15 1/4, Blade length: 9 3/4 |
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WT248/G008 |
Cleaver |
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Total length: 14, Blade length: 8 |
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WT249/G005 |
Cleaver |
Splitting laths |
Total length: 16, Blade length: 9 3/8, Blade width 2 7/16 |
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WT250/F037 |
Bill hook |
Used by Railway Co. to clear embankments |
Total length: 12, Blade length: 7, Blade width (max): 2 1/4 |
Total length: 30.5 |
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WT251/F025 |
Bill hook (Newton pattern) |
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, Blade length: 10 |
Handle + ferrule length: 15.5, Blade length: 26 |
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WT253/A001 |
Bill hook (Yorkshire pattern) |
For larger branches, poles etc. |
Handle length: 14, Blade length: 8 |
Handle length: 36, Blade length: 19 |
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WT254/F027 |
Bill hook |
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Total length: 39.5 |
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WT255 |
Pick axe/colliers pick axe |
Breaking up coal oar |
Total length: 15 |
Total length: 38 |
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WT257/S016 |
Drawknife |
Drawing tool towards you to cut/shave off timber (but tried the tool out – it works better to use by pulling awy – the handle angle feels odd) |
Handle length: 5, Blade length: 4 3/4, Blade width: 1 1/2, Ferrule length: 1/20 |
Handle length: 13, Blade length: 12, Blade width: 4, Ferrule length: 1.50 |
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WT260/F016 |
Billhook (Newtown pattern?) |
Pointing stakes, harvesting thinner material, cutting and laying hedges etc. |
Total length: 14 5/8, Blade length: 8 7/8 |
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WT262/A035 |
Spade |
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Total blade length: 25, Blade length: 15, Blade width (top): 6, Blade width (base): 3 1/20 |
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WT263/G003 |
Butchers cleaver |
Heavy blade and some force allows the blade to shear through flesh and bones. |
Total length: 17 1/2, Handle length: 7, Blade width (max): 3 3/4 |
Total length: 44.5, Handle length: 18, Blade width (max): 9.5 |
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WT264/W030 |
Adze (trackman’s spiking?) |
Presumed to be for laying railway tracking. Also for trimming sleepers and driving wedges |
Total length: 25, Blade length (inc. poll): 11 1/2, Cutting edge: 4 1/8 |
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WT267/G012 |
Cleaver |
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Total length: 12 1/2, Blade length: 6 1/4, Blade width: 4 1/2 |
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WT269/A028 |
Cleaver? Billhook? |
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Total length: 17, Blade length: 9 |
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WT270/A013 |
Slasher |
Used in the preliminary clearance work of laying a hedge for cutting away rough overgrowth, shrubs and trees not to be used in the hedge, and also in general hedge cutting and tidying. |
Head length: 14, Blade length: 7 |
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WT271/F011 |
Billhook (Walter thinks it’s a Newtown pattern) |
Cutting and laying hedges, harvesting thinner materials |
Total length: 13 7/8, Blade length: 9, Blade width (max): 2 5/8 |
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WT272 |
Machete (slasher type knife) |
To cut down small shrubs and branches. We think/guess that the Army would have bought these for general army use in the field as a slasher knife to clear stuff. Martindales are likely to be approved army supplier |
Handle length: 5, Blade length: 13, Blade width (max): 1 7/8 |
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WT273/A016 |
Turnip knife |
Cutting root veg |
Handle length: 5, Blade length: 8 |
Handle length: 13, Blade length: 20 |
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WT276 |
Drawing knife |
Cutting/shaving timber by drawing towards user |
Total length: 19, Tang length: 5, Blade width: 1 |
Total length: 48, Tang length: 13, Blade width: 2.5 |
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WT278/A002 |
Bill hook (Yorkshire pattern?) |
General hedging and coppicing |
Handle length: 5 3/4, Blade length: 13 1/4 |
Handle length: 14.6, Blade length: 33.6 |
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WT279/G006 |
Cleaver |
Splitting wood, chopping kindling |
Total length: 14 1/2, Blade length: 7 1/2 |
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WT283 |
Finishing scraper |
To scrape cowhide – we think this is a finishing tool to finish off the kids. Two-handed scraping action. The left-hand end has a kink proving this tool was only for a right-handed person. |
Blade length: 14, Blade width: 2 1/4 |
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WT284 |
Billhook |
Slashing bottom of trees |
Total length: 15, Ferrule length: 1, Blade width: 2 1/2 |
Total length: 38, Ferrule length: 2.5, Blade width: 6 |
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WT286/A005 |
Billhook |
Cutting/laying hedges |
Handle length: 6 1/2, Blade length: 9 1/2 |
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WT287/A008 |
Billhook (Broom or Nottingham pattern) |
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Total length: 41, Handle + ferrule length: 15/5, Blade width (max): 14.5 |
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WT288 |
Billhook |
For cutting trees |
, Blade length: 9 |
Handle + ferrule length: 16.5, Blade length: 23 |
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WT289/A009 |
Billhook |
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Total length: 38, Handle length: 5.5, Handle width: 4, Blade length: 22.50 |
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WT290/G016 |
Hammer (6lb) |
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Head length: 7 |
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WT291/W031 |
Barking iron |
Drawn down a log on a trestle to cut the tree bark lengthwise |
Total length: 15 3/4, Handle length: 6 3/4, Socket length: 6, Head length: 3, Head width: 1 3/4 |
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WT292/G010 |
Cleaver |
Trimming staves. Removing small side shoots. |
Total length: 13 5/16, Blade length: 7 3/4 |
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WT293/A025 |
Billhook |
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Total length: 13, Blade length: 8 1/2 |
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WT294/A020 |
Billhook |
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Total length: 14, Blade length: 9 |
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WT295/F039 |
Small axe |
General small axework |
Total length: 12 |
Total length: 30 |
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WT296/A011 |
Billhook |
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Total length: 36, Handle + ferrule length: 16, Blade length: 20, Blade width (max): 100 |
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WT300/G025 |
Cold chisel |
A cold chisel is a tool made of tempered steel used for cutting ‘cold’ metals (i.e. not used in conjunction with a forget etc.). Often used to remove waste metal when a very smooth finish is not required, or the work cannot be done easily with other tools |
Length: 5 1/8, Wdith: 15/16 |
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WT301/G019 |
Pry bar |
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Total length: 14 1/8, Height: 7 |
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WT302/A022 |
Billhook |
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Total length: 15 3/8, Blade length: 10, Handle length: 4 3/4 |
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WT303/A030 |
Riving knife/cleaver |
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Total length: 14 1/2, Blade length: 8, Blade width: 1 1/2 |
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WT304/W021 |
Auger, spiral |
Boring long deep holes |
Total length: 31, Spiral width: 2 1/2 |
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WT306/A037 |
Posting spade |
Used for digging holes for fence posts |
Total length: 42, Width (max): 6 5/8, Head length (exc. socket): 16 5/8 |
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WT307/W011 |
Auger, spiral |
Boring long deep holes |
Total length: 23 |
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A film taken in the Coopers’ shop at St James Gate, Dublin in 1954 shows barrels being made for the Guinness brewery. The film has a commentary, rather overwhelmed by music, but he names the tools used in the process & I was interested to see the actual tools in the library. It would be interesting to present a talk with films & the actual tools. But I will need to think about that.
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