This had a tag but it just said chopper. The blade is heavy duty and had been sharpened. 

No clue on this one. 

 

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Is this a bush axe?

Sod cutter.

It's a brush axe, we have them in our survey trucks to clear line for line of sight during surveys.

I guess the actual name is a "Swedish Brush Axe"

 

 

10 hours ago, FlGatorwood said:

Is this a bush axe?

Pretty much!

19 minutes ago, John Morris said:

It's a brush axe, we have them in our survey trucks to clear line for line of sight during surveys.

I guess the actual name is a "Swedish Brush Axe"

 

 

Funny, doesn't look like an "Inga from Sweden".  I expect it's a harsh mistress either way.

 

 

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Sandvik brush cutter. Got a LOT of use out of those while working up north in '67. Found them so handy, I bought one when I got back home to clean up some areas around the farm. It disappeared somewhere along the line, and I miss it! Two cuts will take down an aspen sapling as big around as your forearm.

May have to go back and pick that one up for my son's land

It was used by Jason in Halloween 2. He found it very useful. 
Paul

Machete does wonders when it is properly sharpened.  

On 10/26/2021 at 10:04 PM, FlGatorwood said:

Machete does wonders when it is properly sharpened.  

True, but that long blade can be dangerous if misused. Also, we used Sandviks to thin out poplars that had been seeded via airplane several years earlier. The seeds tended to clump, producing dense stands of saplings 2" t0 3" in size. That would have taken a lot of one-handed chopping with a machete, leaving the unused hand to get in the way! The Sandvik uses a two-handed approach, so was safer for a bunch of mostly city kids turned loose in the woods. We only had one mishap... that oversized razor blade can cut right through the steel toe cap of a safety boot, as one lad found out! He got a chopper ride and a week of lounging around the camp.

Think I will just stick with brush blade on Husqvarna