| Category: |
Objects -> Tools & Equipment
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| Donor: |
Abe Nelson Collection |
| Location: |
Historic White Pine Village -> Lumber Museum South
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| Accession Number: |
2010.050.04
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| Name of Object: |
Pickaroon (pick) Axe
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| Description: |
Steel pick blade on end of a wooden handle. Head is 9 inches long. Thickest part is 4 long by 2 wide - then the steel tapers to a 1/4 inch pick end, slightly hooked. Handle 33 inches long and goes through axe head. Marked on handle end - Lumbering Museum - South -
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| History: |
Pick would be hit into the top edge of a log toward the end in order to drag the log. If the log was to big for one man or two men, a log carrier was used.
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| Year Manufactured: |
0000
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