Share your agricultural billhook

[C4RL]

Originally Posted by Ian

Hi Carl,

The last one you show is a combination tool, with an axe head and a machete blade. I saw a similar example a while back on an auction site. I think it was African in origin. According to the auction site, the machete blade was used to cut small saplings and the axe head to cut larger wood.

Thank you for that Ian, it'd be great if you managed to find the listing.😉

The puzzling thing about it is this, the axe is sharp but the long part isn't a machete blade but more like a chisel with only the very end sharpened, both of the sides taper to the tip & are blunt.

[Ian]

Have not found that listing but still looking. The sharpened blunt end might suggest a few uses--gouging or digging, for example.

[C4RL]

Originally Posted by Ian

Have not found that listing but still looking. The sharpened blunt end might suggest a few uses--gouging or digging, for example.

Thanks.

The best guess so far has been an asparagus cutter, they tend to be long & only sharpened at the end but don't have a hatchet/ cleaver, it was suggested this might have been to cut the ends off bundled bunches. But that's purely a guess with no other example.

[naturalist]

Local implement, it comes in various size. From to harvest pumpkin to pruning. In Sundanese it is called as gaet (with e like in "set"), surprisingly in Kanekes (or in modern day called as Baduy) it is the kujang. In some parts of Java, such is in my hometown (Yogyakarta) friends called it kudi.
It is not an old wesi aji but it has age. Handle made of albino buffalo, at the moment the handle has higher price than to the blade.

[Sajen]

Yesterday I was able to buy my second "Hippe", the seller stated 17th until 18th century what I don't think will be true but it seems very old to my eyes.
Here are a few seller pics. 24,5 cm long, blade is 14 cm.