Apparently abandoned centuries ago because their briar was too soft!
A Good Five Dollar Pipe Tool
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For years, he and his colleagues had been exploring the archaeological site of Ain Boucherit in Algeria’s High Plateaus, just an hour’s drive from the Mediterranean at the continent’s northern edge.
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Doubtless a cover story for the authorities of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria.
Under cover of exploring for archeological relics the grandsons of Marx and Mincer and Dunhill toil for the precious, ancient, primordial red root.
Even yet, we may have more ancient Algerian.
That’s obviously a Berber pipe tool, wide enough for a Custombilt.
In all seriousness, there is an oxbow in Turkey Creek with a mound in the middle, on our farm.
When I was about eight some archeologists from the University of Missouri came to our place and informed my father that mound, they were fairly certain was an Osage ceremonial burial mound.
We all walked down to it, and the scholars explained how the Osage would have made the channel and mounded up dirt in the middle, in the style they used almost a thousand years ago.
They asked permission to excavate.
My father said one of his ancestors was an Osage princess, married a Thompson, and she was buried over at Lindley Prairie Cemetery by Bear Creek.
He said I’d as soon you dig her up as them. Let them rest where they are.
However he said you can dig all you want around it. I’d like to know how they built it.
They found some arrowheads and a few stone tools, not much about the construction of the mound.
Some grad student called me about ten years ago and I told them the same thing.
I wonder how long our five dollar pipe tools will last in the ground?
When I was about eight some archeologists from the University of Missouri came to our place and informed my father that mound, they were fairly certain was an Osage ceremonial burial mound.
We all walked down to it, and the scholars explained how the Osage would have made the channel and mounded up dirt in the middle, in the style they used almost a thousand years ago.
They asked permission to excavate.
My father said one of his ancestors was an Osage princess, married a Thompson, and she was buried over at Lindley Prairie Cemetery by Bear Creek.
He said I’d as soon you dig her up as them. Let them rest where they are.
However he said you can dig all you want around it. I’d like to know how they built it.
They found some arrowheads and a few stone tools, not much about the construction of the mound.
Some grad student called me about ten years ago and I told them the same thing.
I wonder how long our five dollar pipe tools will last in the ground?
Thanks to @Briar Lee I have purchased the tool. I have one but it has gotten loose over the years. Don't know why I bought it since I have my Opa's old pocket knife to clean and my finger to tamper lol.
This is exactly what I use. I lost one a couple months ago and used a czech tool till I just got the replacement. These look super classy to my taste and my only problem with them is, as you say, their tendency to grow legs and walk off!
Just a heads up on these... I've had someone ask me to repair one of these when the tamper head fell off. They are not welded, just sort of stuck on there hafhazardly, IMO.
But, if you are prone to losing things, you may not have it around long enough to have it fall off.
But, if you are prone to losing things, you may not have it around long enough to have it fall off.