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It is a standard [1] tool during wildfire suppression and trail restoration. [2] The combination tool was created in 1905 by Malcolm McLeod, a United States Forest Service ranger at the Sierra National Forest. [3] [4] The McLeod was originally designed to rake fire lines with the teeth and cut branches and sod with the sharpened hoe edge.
A McLeod, which is sometimes called a rake hoe, is a similar tool whose rake portion looks more like a steel rake but with sharp edges on the teeth. The teeth of the more traditional fire rake which resemble the teeth of a great white shark allow it to penetrate deeper into the undergrowth when necessary.
McLeod (tool), a two-sided blade used for wildfire suppression and trail conservation McLeod gauge , a scientific instrument used to measure very low pressures Television
A Pulaski combines the functions of an axe and an adze in one tool. The Pulaski is a specialty hand tool used in fighting fires, particularly wildfires, [1] which combines an axe and an adze in one head. Similar to a cutter mattock, it has a rigid handle of wood, plastic, or fiberglass.
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Other tools which can also be used for this purpose include the fusee, a pyrotechnic device similar to a road flare, other pyrotechnic devices, or even burning vegetative fuels. A driptorch used for a controlled burn in response to the 2020 Creek Fire in California
McLeod was born in Stoke Newington on 9 Feb 1841 and died 3 October 1923, [2] [3] while other biographies state that he was born in Stoke Newington on 19 February 1841 and died 1 October 1923, [4] a further alternative biography states that he was born 19 February 1842 in the adjacent area of Stamford Hill, North London, and died in Richmond, Surrey on 1 October 1923.
A 1909 ad for the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company. The Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, also known as the Belknap Hardware Company or simply Belknap Hardware, was at one time a leading American manufacturer of hardware goods and a major wholesale competitor of retail sales companies Sears, Roebuck, and Company and Montgomery Ward.