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Title: Hope Y'all Can Help ID this....
Post by: reader509 on June 11, 2012, 01:17:15 PM

This object is my neighbor's who found it in an old barn...I don't think it is whole...I think it is only part of the tool, but I have no idea what it is.  Hope someone can help.  TIA.

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Title: Re: Hope Y'all Can Help ID this....
Post by: Rauville on June 11, 2012, 01:55:47 PM

That would be a "Hay Knife", used to cut a stack of loose hay into portions.

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-vintage-primitive-hay-knife-saw-farm (http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-vintage-primitive-hay-knife-saw-farm)

Title: Re: Hope Y'all Can Help ID this....
Post by: KC on June 11, 2012, 07:34:05 PM

Ya'll did pretty dang good on this one Rauville!  :)

Being a born/bred/living southerner with lotsa' relatives in OK area....I earn the right to kid about it.

Title: Re: Hope Y'all Can Help ID this....
Post by: mart on June 11, 2012, 08:33:45 PM

Thats the first one I have ever seen and I have been in Texas all my life and had livestock most of it !!  Never heard of a hay knife !!

Title: Re: Hope Y'all Can Help ID this....
Post by: reader509 on June 11, 2012, 09:58:35 PM

So that is a Hay Knife?  Is there more to go with it, or is that the whole thing there?  The blade looks like half of a set of giant scissors to me, not to mention the slot in the one handle.  Just wondering...I check out the link now...

Thanks for all your help! :D  I really appreciate it.
reader509

Title: Re: Hope Y'all Can Help ID this....
Post by: Rauville on June 12, 2012, 08:30:41 AM

Here's a little better history as to it's use.
http://www.farmcollector.com/looking-back/Feeding-Loose-Hay-from-an-Outside-Haystack.aspx (http://www.farmcollector.com/looking-back/Feeding-Loose-Hay-from-an-Outside-Haystack.aspx)
There was another type that was in the form of a spade with sharpened sections on the cutting edge. You would start on top of the stack and use the knife like a garden spade.

Title: Re: Hope Y'all Can Help ID this....
Post by: KC on June 12, 2012, 10:21:46 AM

Rauville, don't know why but the link won't work for me.

Title: Re: Hope Y'all Can Help ID this....
Post by: mart on June 12, 2012, 11:50:14 AM

Only thing used here was pitch fork !!  Still have it !!