Re: [LUG] Falcons eye - slightly off topic. what is a mattock.

[John Horne <J.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14-Feb-2002 at 21:23:39 Tony Atkin wrote:
>  --- Paul Sutton <psutton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just a
> > I am playing falcons eye, trying to enter a 2nd hand
> > book store, I get asked to 'leave my mattock outside'  what exactly is a
> > mattock,
>
> Some sort of pick-axe I think.  Have a vague feeling
> it has a shovel like blade on one end.
Correct. I'm picking up on the hedgelaying again at the moment, most
woodland work was truely knobbled by F&M, so I spent last year doing very
little. Mattocks are used in hedgelaying particularly when building a turfed
hedge. And for a piccy...http://www.m-w.com/mw/art/mattock.htm


I think we are well of topic now...! :-)


John.

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