Plumb BSA Hatchet Score

How long is the handle? It looks like a practical size to pack in your kit. Maybe it never had a sheath. I have seen pictutes of hatchets hung from loops on knap sacks.

Very nice shape for a camping axe, nice score!

saweet!

I saw one just like it or not as good in an antique shop for $80.
Nice score.

BSA Plumb...

Dave Markowitz--Agree, NIIICE score!!

The BSA hatchets always came w/a sheath, AFAIK. Back more than 50 yrs, I got one myself as a Xmas present, not a Plumb but a Bridgeport, with steel handle welded onto the blade. It STILL works just fine. Original sheath went south many years ago, so I cobbled up a better replacement out of some scrap leather and copper rivets.

Plumb never made a bad axe--That one of yours is just as well-made as any Plumb. And from the photos, it is in very nice shape considering its age.

As to the flat end of the poll--Boy Scouts tend to use as a hammer, anything that has a handle and a flat part of a head. No surprise that your hatchet was so used. Probably to hammer nails here & there, as well as tent pegs.

The BSA stopped encouraging Scouts to use hand axes a long time ago. Likewise sheath knives. More's the pity. OF COURSE the kids will hurt themselves with 'em, if they're never taught how to use 'em properly. Oh, well.

Enjoy your Scout hatchet!

@Kingcreek--IMX, antique shops tend to vastly over- or under-value, anything beyond the experience of that shop's staff. More usually, over, of course. And try to talk some sense to them, about the real value of the piece in question--Hah!

i really like it, and thats one heck of a good price for a good ol Plumb.
i have a Plumb thats an oldie but a goodie, and looks exactly like that, but as a former scout, id really like to have the Boy Scout model.

Wifee found me a sweet plumb at an estate sale a couple months back. The sheath is in a bit of a state but I can rebuild it from the inside with buckskin if I get around to it.

It still has a lot of the original sticker - though unreadable - on the other side of the head and plumb's funky full thread wedge in the handle.

Great find they are well build and will give you years of good service.

Still have my old BSA hatchet somewhere. We stopped the boys from using hatchets years ago after two chopping accidents. We encouraged them to use folding saws. We kept a troop axe and set up a chopping area roped off with yellow no tresspassing ribbon. We scout masters were the only ones that used the axe. You can do a lot of work with a saw---and so much safer.

Notice in the very nice pictures above that the model depicted with the original (first type) leather sheath has a nail puller cut AND the BSA logo is in a different spot and has the "old" banner 'be prepared' on the bottom rocker. This model was produced from the mid thirties up thru late 50s , which is actually a 20-25 year model run. Then the blade profile 'chubbied up' , the nail puller was deleted ,the logo changed the ,BSA on the snap removed and the sheath design changed ect. progressively until Plumb quit making them (when?)

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Still have my old BSA hatchet somewhere. We stopped the boys from using hatchets years ago after two chopping accidents. We encouraged them to use folding saws. We kept a troop axe and set up a chopping area roped off with yellow no tresspassing ribbon. We scout masters were the only ones that used the axe. You can do a lot of work with a saw---and so much safer.

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I have a post card around here somewhere depicting a regional level gathering and a 10-15 foot tall tree stump layered in thrown BSA axes. I never see it that it doesn't cause me to imagine the consternation that activity would cause these days.

Thanks for the info on mine Gordon - I had no idea it was that old.

very nice find. That's a great tool. Hope you use it.

PA?? Wondered where i left it....