I found this in an antique store the other day. I was looking at it, they had a pile of them. This one looked really sharp, it has a honed blade on either end of that hook. I wondered wtf it was and the guy came over and said it was an antique corn cutter. They always throw "antique" in there, no matter if it is or not. It looks old, and has a nice feel to it. He said they used these in the old day, kids would walk the bean fields and wack out stray volunteer corn stalks. They have Round Up now, (eye roll.) I thought it looked perfect to get the weeds out of the cracks in the cement and then I wouldn't need friggin' Round Up at all. So I said "How much ya want?" And he said "How much ya give?" I hate that fuckery..put a GD price on it. I said, $5 bucks? And he yelled "SOLD!" Which told me right there I paid too much. I could have gotten the thing for a dollar, I'll bet. And I'm saving my cash for the big yard sale Saturday, so I was ticked at myself. But, it's really handy. I cleaned the patio area all up, getting ready for fall decorating and I used it all around moms house where the weeds grow out the foundation. It was really therapeutic. If you use it when it's just rained, it gets the whole root out. I was on a weed murdering mission. I ended up with a whole wheelbarrow load to burn. Corn cutter..who knew?
Friday, August 21, 2009
Meet my new best friend
I found this in an antique store the other day. I was looking at it, they had a pile of them. This one looked really sharp, it has a honed blade on either end of that hook. I wondered wtf it was and the guy came over and said it was an antique corn cutter. They always throw "antique" in there, no matter if it is or not. It looks old, and has a nice feel to it. He said they used these in the old day, kids would walk the bean fields and wack out stray volunteer corn stalks. They have Round Up now, (eye roll.) I thought it looked perfect to get the weeds out of the cracks in the cement and then I wouldn't need friggin' Round Up at all. So I said "How much ya want?" And he said "How much ya give?" I hate that fuckery..put a GD price on it. I said, $5 bucks? And he yelled "SOLD!" Which told me right there I paid too much. I could have gotten the thing for a dollar, I'll bet. And I'm saving my cash for the big yard sale Saturday, so I was ticked at myself. But, it's really handy. I cleaned the patio area all up, getting ready for fall decorating and I used it all around moms house where the weeds grow out the foundation. It was really therapeutic. If you use it when it's just rained, it gets the whole root out. I was on a weed murdering mission. I ended up with a whole wheelbarrow load to burn. Corn cutter..who knew?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
18 comments:
It looks like a mini-scythe, thig-a-ma-gigger. Looks deadly enough to do damage to whatever you used it on.
Hoggy daycare owner, down the road, better not get too huffy with you!
LOL! It's a cool tool. You slam it into them frontways and grab em with the hook. You don't even have to touch them, which I like, because crickets hide there and I'm scared of those bastards.
I collect old weird tools, but, only the ones I actually use.
I want one of those. With all the trying to break and entering going on around my area. It would be a useful tool!
around here in Indiana the kids, usually teenage boys were the corn "de rogue-ers" They use machete' things & would run up & down the corn rows swinging away. The corn is pretty short when they send them in, way before the detasslers go in. My cousin almost chopped his foot off derogueing one summer. That was back in the 70's. I wonder if they'd hand a bunch of 15 years old boys machete's now days & let them loose in a corn field? You would know somebody is gonna die! Gawd, the good old days, so true! Kids dont even know what work is and we worked our asses off in the sun (got a nice tan too!) for that $1.60 an hour! Thats was crazy good money back then.
rox
OMG! In a town nearby here probably 8 miles away. A 50 year old guy was working in a corn bin and it collapsed in on him, filled up over him. So far all they have found is a shoe. I am sure we know him. Sadly, we probably went to school with him and names are being mentioned but we have not heard yet. This is always bad. has happened to many guys I know. Corn bins & gravel pits, deadly.
rox
That's awful. Silos and grain bins a huge and dangerous places. A family here lost two children, they were playing in the empty bin when their dad started filling it. He couldn't hear them for the machinery.
if one of your neighbors start giving you shit, pull that tool out and say "would you like me to help you get your head out of your ass with this?" :D
I'm such a cheap ass I would have said ".50cents"...lol
K
It looks like a longer version of a "fighting iron" on old trading ships and pirate days. They would reach out to snag a limb or throat, or poke an eye with that thing, or just beat and disarm with the other side.
If you ever watch "Tai-Pan", they fight a duel with them at the end. No woman after Lorena Bobbit's act of cruelty should own antyhing that sharp Pat.
Jarhead
BoooYa! I'm a chick pirate now. No one's getting my booty! Not that anyone wants it, but, hey.
king of looks like an odd harpoon.
So the Iowa whales aren't safe either. Heh.
I have a tool exactly like that only it's on a short plastic handle and probably smaller. And I use it for the same thing, weeds in the cracks. It's nice to just kind of get lost in a mundane chore like that.
Way better than those icky noisy weed wackers, isn't it? I think those things just encourage weeds to come back.
I learn so many interesting little facts on this blog. One day I will impress somebody by knowing what this tool is and being able to describe Googie.
Entertaining AND educational.
I suddenly don't want to eat corn.
Even with lack of proper attention - I still don't have weeds in my cracks.
TV Snark, thanks for the laugh! hahahaha!
Post a Comment