Billhook Knife

[Pro Libertate]

Another neat find at Paris Market Antiques in Coeur d’Alene. The sheath is obviously a contemporary piece, but the jury’s still out on this billhook knife. It ought to make for a useful bit of kit: from dispatching squirrel and rabbit heads/limbs to cutting down saplings and other camp chores. It might even come in handy for dispatching a redcoat/redskin or two…

[rich pierce]

Nice. I’ve got a full-sized bill hook and it’s unbeatable for clearing brush, limbing felled saplings, chopping and dropping heavy-stemmed crops, and so on. It’s hard for machines to keep up with it.  I wish I’d gotten it 40 years ago. 

[P.W.Berkuta]

While in high school my summer job was with the local township road crew clearing roadside overgrown brush. One of the best tools for this was a LARGE brush hook that took two hands to use.