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[bugbear]

Handy looking nettle-remover. He wanted a quid. I didn't haggle.

Here it is, post clean up.

BugBear

 

[flying haggis]

Looks like a beet topping knife.

 

[bugbear]

Looks like a beet topping knife.

I've harvested cattle beet, mangolds and sugar beet by hand - I used something like these:

I think the tool I found is just a slasher (which is a name, not a description)

http://www.timelesstools.co.uk/hooks.htm

BugBear

 

[bugbear]

A Spears & Jackson catalogue from 1972 shows two tools like mine, under the heading "hooks".

BugBear

 

[Woodchips2]

That looks a bargain and handy for sharpening pencils or cutting your toenails if you have difficulty bending, well done =D>

 

[Lons]

What no haggle? Are you losing your touch Bugbear?

Useful tool btw.

 

[Robbo3]

IIRC, on the farm they called short handled one hooks & long handled slashers.