[Alby]

I have given this thread great deliberation      My OH stuck it on one of her sites and the leading ideas are........................  Beet knife,  Swede hook , thatching hook!!, OR , Paling draw tool !!  Oh heck forestry /paling tool   

Oh............  Ive found anothr three toolsthat may be of interest !!!!   This thread or a new one ??
              Regards  Alby

[RichardA]

bring it on...............

[JayG]

I suggest a new thread Alby - some of us are easily confused! 

[smud6ie]

with respect to smud6ie I suggested it was a turnip knife several postings earlier .....
In north Lincolnshire we perhaps also called it a mangel knife or beet knife.

Sorry RichardA ,as I knew  what is was I fell into the common trap of not reading every one the previous posts before replying.
Yes the old boys here  when i was a lad  also referred to the crop as mangles,we also used to go hoeing,thinning  them for pocket money before I grew up and had an holding of my own.

smud6ie

[RichardA]

I can just remember hoeing beet seedlings to get the right spacing (they called it chopping beet) with my dad (they were paid so much a row and I know that we had a little more to spend on our week's hols because my dad worked every hour he could chopping beet) and can certainly remember chipping swedes and turnips for cattle feed in the winter.Cattle also used to be fed on sugar beet cake - some sort of waste product from the sugar beet factories - I will never forget that smell - like brown sugar and biscuit all in one.
R

[tadpole]

Looks like a cloggers knife or a bent/broken draw knife
http://www.oldtoolphotos.com/toolphoto.asp?photo=305

[Paul Plots]

with respect to smud6ie I suggested it was a turnip knife several postings earlier .....
In north Lincolnshire we perhaps also called it a mangel knife or beet knife.

Sorry.... I guess the prize will have to be split 50 / 50. 

[smud6ie]

with respect to smud6ie I suggested it was a turnip knife several postings earlier .....
In north Lincolnshire we perhaps also called it a mangel knife or beet knife.

Sorry.... I guess the prize will have to be split 50 / 50. 

I'm afraid I'm going to have to turn my half down its against the site policy to offer anything for hire or reward

[RichardA]

leave my half in until we get a really tough question - I was totally lost on the axe though but the slashers looked familiar
R

[pipfit]

I new I was correct use to have a gang on sugar beet  topping after a tractor and machine had squeezed them out

[Paul Plots]

with respect to smud6ie I suggested it was a turnip knife several postings earlier .....
In north Lincolnshire we perhaps also called it a mangel knife or beet knife.

Sorry.... I guess the prize will have to be split 50 / 50. 

I'm afraid I'm going to have to turn my half down its against the site policy to offer anything for hire or reward

Thank heavens someone is sticking to the rules... 

[smud6ie]

Anyone else just see
 one of these knives being used on Countryfile?
Smud6ie

[Growster...]

Smud6ie has just posted the answer!

Growster's spoke shave post didn't figure at all!

Nice one Smud6ie!

Excellent result!

[yaxley]

yes i see that

[mumofstig]

Anyone else just see
 one of these knives being used on Countryfile?
Smud6ie

what for? give us a clue