My 2nd broad ax head and other iron

[lumbercamp]

Broad ax heads are very rare in this area since there was very little hewing of logs. Most timber went to the mill to be cut into lumber.
With the first swing of my digger and I saw the point, I thought it was another double bit ax. The next swing uncovered the whole head. This is only my 2nd broad ax head since I started digging in 1972.
Other photos.
Link and pins- Was a very simple way to connect RR logging cars. Just place a link between 2 cars and drop a pin in to secure them. I found several broken links and one good one that I hauled out, plus 4 pins.
Hooks and wedges- The hook on the left is the smallest and thinnest that I have found yet. It is 5" long. The wedge was pounded into the saw kerf to keep the crosscut saw from binding while cutting the tree down.
Chain- Very, very common here. Was pounded into the ends of logs and hauled out by horses.

 

[Michigan Badger]

Congrats man and great finds. Broadheads are more difficult to find than large cents. I've been hunting lumbercamps off and on for 40 years and have never found one.

Congrats on all the great relics.

Badger

 

[eathabs]

Lumber, any idea as to the age of this?

 

[lumbercamp]

Eathabs, I find that type of axehead quite often in the camps that I dig. The areas that I dig were cut from the 1880's to early 1900's. But at the same time that is a very common style head, even manufactured today.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

great finds Lumbercamp....looks somewhat like the one I found at my ghost town

 

[lumbercamp]

Nice find Gypsy. You know you've had a great day of detecting when you have to carry all of that heavy iron out.

 

[goldencoin]

Very nice finds!

HH
-GC

 

[DiggingFl]

Nice axe, I found two last year at a turpentine camp. I saw in a lumber museum that thay also used them along with a mallet to cut the long slits in the pine trees where they would place the tins for the sap to drain in.