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					Originally Posted by CutlassCollector  But not as weird as the 'rake' axe. And Jim is surely right - no way is that an ice axe!
 I have checked my axe and tool books and although there are hundreds of axe types, there are no examples that help with either of these ones.
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 Have we considered that ice ax is not a piolet but is an 
ice ax. The teeth could be for chipping large amounts of ice.