I became acquainted with the cutter mattock before I was ten. On ours the eye
was tapered in one direction and the handle in the opposite direction--head was
not coming off. Ours was a heavy tool that could cut through roots with ease.

John


“P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried;
therefore I beg you to write and let me know.” - Sir Boyle Roche, M.P.

On Dec 11, 2017, at 4:56 PM, Ken Shepard mailto:waruba@c...">mailto:waruba@c...>> wrote:

That tool head is a "pick mattock"  as opposed to a "cutter mattock" which
has a cutting edge similar to a blunt ax.

Examples of both can be viewed on the A.M. Leonard horticultural supply
site:

https://www.amleo.com/

Ken Shepard

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:12 PM, scott grandstaff mailto:scottg@s...">mailto:scottg@s...>>
wrote:

Did you ever carve yew wood? Pacific yew?
Its weird. Its not so hard but its ridiculously tough. A drawknife cuts,
but then it wants to
blow out. The only reliable way to spokeshave it is to cut practically
sideways. A super heavy skew angle in other words.
But a scraper? A scraper feels really weird like you are carving some
kind of plastic. But it cuts a treat.
I was actually sculpting yew with a hand scraper.
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometoo
ls/handlecarving.jpg

Here is what I was making. Has anyone ever seen this tool head? It has a
patent marking.
No idea what the inventor was thinking, maybe a fire tool? I am planning
to use it for close quarter but heavy gardening tasks.
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometool
s/handlecarving2.jpg

And weird email problems.
Did you ever get a "stuck" piece of email? I had an ordinary auction
listing notice from ebay, that got stuck on my incoming mail server. It
would resend every few minutes and nothing else!?!?? I woke up to 377
copies of the thing.
Meanwhile any new email that came was sitting my snowcrest's server, and
wouldn't download to my computer.
 When I finally found the "bad" piece of email on the server, and deleted
it, mail service returned to normal.... just like that.
 But why did it happen?  Anybody?
         yours Scott

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