![]() ![]() I also use it as my prime gardening tool in my rich, loose-and-fluffy home-made garden soil to create holes and furrows and to chop weeds out by the root. It’s great for digging a planting hole out of virgin sod where you expect to encounter rocks, glass shards, or other sharp nasties. Mine came to me as a gift a long, long time ago, and I’ve used it for so many things I’ve lost count of them all, but I use it primarily for gardening efforts. In this case, though, I’m talking about a shorter handle, and a lighter mattock, making for a one-handed garden tool. The mattock is typically affixed to a long handle. Every gardener is familiar with the mattock, whether it’s an adze mattock which that features an adze in combination with an axe, or a pick mattock which has a pick on the opposite side of the tool. ![]() We refer to the same blade configuration, that is, a blade installed at a right-angle to the handle, as a mattock when the blade is duller and intended for chopping into the earth. A short-handled adze is called a hand adze, because you swing it with your hand, and a long-handled adze is referred to as a foot adze because if you aren’t using it carefully, you’ll chop off your foot. It has, for the most part been replaced by mechanized woodworking tools. Today, the adze is a sharp tool that’s used in rough carpentry. It’s obvious that one of the first tools early man would invent was something to dig with that was a bit more finger-friendly. ![]() Imagine our prehistoric ancestor digging with his hands into the dirt, he points his fingers perpendicular to his hand and scoops out a handful of dirt, and along with it maybe a few sharp stones, a thorn or two, or perhaps a splinter slides under a fingernail. It was invented about the first time someone tied a rock to a stick, which you can figure was quite a while back. The adze is among the very oldest of stone-age tools. ![]()
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