I am looking for a madox. The digging/prying/chopping tool that has an ax on one side and a pick on the other that like a scoop/adz. The ones around here don’t have a heattreated head and are weak. The head that sldes down the handle is the strong way to not break the handle.
Is there a place where I can get one ordered? I could just get the head and buy a handle here. Thanks!
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like this? http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/product_pages/view_catalog_page.asp?id=1572 -
if that's not it, search around this companies site and see if they don't have it...
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Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
I think its spelled mattock. I found a few hits on google but don't know enough to make a link.
One of the tools of the ignorance of my youth.
Lefty - Lurker without an attitude or a clue
All you need to do is to copy the link and paste in the message.
Do it on a line by itself (or at least have a space infront and behind it - including any period). The forum software automatically makes it a clickable link.
And make sure that you get a powered one.
The manual ones are much to hard to work.
Edited 2/27/2004 1:35:59 PM ET by Bill Hartmann
I think its spelled mattock.
Also "pulaski" size of blades are reversed.....wider axe than hoe. Mattock has wider hoe than axe.
It's called a mattock and i want the mattock-cutter. I'll do a search. Thanks!
These types of tools usually have a metal head with two business ends, different from one another, as does a claw hammer. I was taught to name the tool by calling out both ends of the steel head, as in, "pickaxe, axe-mattock, pick-mattock." The railroad pick has a pick and a narrow chisel, and weighs more than any other.
In wildland firefighting, it's always a Pulaski, a shovel, or a McCloud (which is a heavy-duty wide hoe with rake teeth on the reverse side).
Hope this helps. -Bugle
I like a good sturdy hard to find locally...grub hoe. Man, they are cool.
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I found what i wanted at forrestry tools.com. The way they describe it, it is a cutter-madock. The cutter is an axe. It wasn't that much more than the stupid cheap ones sold around here and should last a lifetime. Thanks for the help!
Yeah, that Council Pulaski-Forester Axe at Forestery Supply looked good. I've gotten their catalog for a long time and most all their stuff is good quality. They aren't always the cheapest, but for $36, stop looking, you'd only save a buck or two somewhere else.
Sounds like you know what to do with it. That one in the catalog looked like you could put a really sharp edge on both blades and then cover the edges with duct tape (for safety) until use. Goes through the roots a lot better when really sharp. At least that was my experience in the only and very small forest fire I fought. Glad someone had told me that beforehand.David Thomas Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska
heres one from toolcrib...
i think its what you are looking for...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-1102566-5572808