billhooks

The deceptive calm that followed was too good to be true, but the men of the borders, accustomed to insecurity as the commonplace of life, stolidly picked up the pieces and kept their billhooks and pitchforks ready to hand.

A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

So I hooked up the old elm-boarded trailer to the tractor and loaded up with chainsaw, fuel cans, triangular bow saw, two billhooks, trimming hook, sharpening stone, a pair of sturdy leather gloves, leather kneepads, protective glasses and a wooden beetle for driving in stakes.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

So I hooked up the old elm-boarded trailer to the tractor and loaded up with chainsaw, fuel cans, triangular bow saw, two billhooks, trimming hook, sharpening stone, a pair of sturdy leather gloves, leather kneepads, protective glasses and a wooden beetle for driving in stakes.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

I had broken the ash handle of one of my billhooks during the day through some mild abuse: using its flat side to beat in some of the hazel stakes.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The church bells peeled, and people armed with billhooks and bowsaws began to appear under the bunting in West Street, heading for the woods.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The church bells peeled, and people armed with billhooks and bowsaws began to appear under the bunting in West Street, heading for the woods.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

In those days, the merest suggestion that a nationalized army was under consideration by some illegitimate, foreign-born blackamoor prince or other was enough to send our gallant, free-enterprising forebears scuttling back to their moat-girded castles for the billhooks, maces, broadswords, and war hammers guaranteed them under the Second Amendment to Erik Bloodaxe's Rules of Civilized Mayhem.

Stop the Government Takeover of America's Armed Forces! 2009

I had broken the ash handle of one of my billhooks during the day through some mild abuse: using its flat side to beat in some of the hazel stakes.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The billhooks we are using would have looked much the same two hundred years ago, although they varied in design, as they still do, in each part of the country.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The billhooks we are using would have looked much the same two hundred years ago, although they varied in design, as they still do, in each part of the country.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009