broad axe
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Used in the timber and sleeper-cutting industry. Used to square sleepers. This axe was possibly used by the donor John McMahon.
Used in the timber and sleeper-cutting industry in the Orbost region.Timber sleepers were superceded by concrete sleepers in c. 1970s.
broad-axe sleeper-cutting timber-industry
An iron axe head with a very long cutting blade and a long wooden handle.
