A billhook or bill hook is a versatile cutting tool used widely in agriculture and forestry for cutting woody material such as shrubs, small trees and branches. A billhook consists of a handle and a blade with a bevelled cutting edge. The blade is curved at the top end to form a hook shape. The handle is virtually always wooden.Rough pine handle with many borer holes. Commercially made (no ID) cast in socket one end, strap iron riveted other end. Cast blade.tools, hook, bill hook, churchill island, farm, iron

Photograph Album. Bound, with plastic pockets for photographs. 155 colour photographs of plants for ID purposes, wide variety. Photographs taken at Burnley, some in the Gardens and some in classrooms. Some photographs of trees have been scanned. Presumably Student work.First page, handwritten, "Indoor Plants 1st Year."indoor plants, burnley, plants, plant id, trees

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