And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Beside creating the tool, Ed Pulaski saved the lives of most of his men, at gunpoint, by taking shelter in a mine shaft during the 1910 wildfire referred to as 'The Big Blowup'. The experience affected his heath for the rest of his life. He died at 64.
Yup, Pulaski. In my tree n landscape years, I went through a dozen or more of those. They were lost or stolen, had some long enough to re-handle. They were $45-$55, 30 years ago. You have to be into lots of rocks to wear one out, unless yer into grinder sharpening, then they go away too fast. Best surface root tool ever, OK a mattox is a good tool, but they're heavy and ugly.
These responses are really interesting. To anyone who has ever fought fires, especially wildland fire fighters, the "Name This Tool" question is a no-brainer.
I guess that having spent two years on a hand crew and the balance of my life working in the woods I just assume everybody knows what a Pulaski is. Silly me.
There’s a very nice 4 mile hiking trail in Wallace, Idaho that tells Pulaski’s story and ends up at the mining shaft where his crew was sheltered from the fire. My wife and I visited there a couple of years ago.
Pulaski (sp?). Often used in a forest fiighter's tool set ? This is my foggy memory saying, I may be wrong.
ReplyDeleteBingo. Super useful tool.
DeleteNot for Soy Boys tool
ReplyDeletePulaski, forest firefighter's tool,
ReplyDeleteConceived by Ed Pulaski in 1911 . Good year for innovation.
ReplyDeleteWell stated.
DeleteWe had em on our rigs. City FD.
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ReplyDeleteWinner!
DeleteNow do one with Gabbin Nuisance's pic.
ReplyDeleteThat's a Pulaski, but it's been called other things.
ReplyDeleteCasio G-Shock. It will handle the rough vibrations from using the Pulaski. And to quote the poet "And so much more".
ReplyDeleteBeside creating the tool, Ed Pulaski saved the lives of most of his men, at gunpoint, by taking shelter in a mine shaft during the 1910 wildfire referred to as 'The Big Blowup'. The experience affected his heath for the rest of his life. He died at 64.
ReplyDeleteYup, Pulaski. In my tree n landscape years, I went through a dozen or more of those. They were lost or stolen, had some long enough to re-handle. They were $45-$55, 30 years ago. You have to be into lots of rocks to wear one out, unless yer into grinder sharpening, then they go away too fast. Best surface root tool ever, OK a mattox is a good tool, but they're heavy and ugly.
ReplyDeleteAt 73, I still have 2, they still get used, sparingly, on my stump farm/ranch (clear cut 25+ years ago).
DeleteThought it was an AZ. Guess I was wrong
ReplyDeleteYou were thinking of this -
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A tool used as early as the Stone Age. That's old.
Grub axe
ReplyDeleteThese responses are really interesting. To anyone who has ever fought fires, especially wildland fire fighters, the "Name This Tool" question is a no-brainer.
ReplyDeleteI guess that having spent two years on a hand crew and the balance of my life working in the woods I just assume everybody knows what a Pulaski is. Silly me.
Steve!
ReplyDeleteThe axe or the one holding it?
ReplyDelete----Ed Pulaski was a real Hero!
ReplyDeleteYes, he was.
DeleteThere’s a very nice 4 mile hiking trail in Wallace, Idaho that tells Pulaski’s story and ends up at the mining shaft where his crew was sheltered from the fire. My wife and I visited there a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteIf I had a Bucket List, that visit would be on it. Hallowed Ground, indeed.
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