Billhooks, Slashers and Grass Hooks
We mainly cut birch for besom brooms and hazel for wattle in-fill panels. Hazel in the north east, not generally growing in tight, deer free conditions, tends not to be of great quality.
Billhooks are probably the single most important tool for the coppice worker. Users and collectors favour such old names as Elwell, Nash and Gilpin. However if you want a new useable well balanced billhook we believe there is only one manufacturer to choose - Morris of Dunsford. Morris is an old company that has in the past made a range of tools but have reverted back to mainly specialising in billhooks.
Recently added a new billhook from Morris to our range: known as the Hampshire Hurdlers Hook, about the same proportions as the Newtown but with the addition of a short straight edge where the pointy bit normally is. Handle is caulked
Morris will make billhooks with a single bevel, left or right, this costs an additional £2. e-mail for details
Don't forget we have very robust leather sheaths for most of the Morris billhooks, including the recent addition of a leather sheath for the Knighton billhook
product list
£21.28 excl. VAT
SORRY, OUT OF STOCK, DUE VERY SOON Made by Morris of Dunsford, Devon. A very well balanced forged billhook for general work, not too heavy,...
£21.28 excl. VAT
SORRY, OUT OF STOCK, DUE VERY SOON Made by Morris of Dunsford, Devon. A very well balanced forged billhook for general work, not too heavy,...
£21.28 excl. VAT
SORRY, OUT OF STOCK, DUE SOON Similar scale to Newtown and Devon but with virtually no hook
£19.57 excl. VAT
General Pattern Spar Hook by Morris. A small 'hook. Veg tan sheaths now available.
£39.15 excl. VAT
A large double sided billhook, with a conventional hook on one side and a straight edge along the other
£25.53 excl. VAT
SORRY, OUT OF STOCK, DUE VERY SOON Double edged billhook with round handle. I have known this as a Staffordshire billhook, tell me if you...
£22.98 excl. VAT
Made by Morris of Dunsford, a hook with a flattened and sharpened nose to cut hurdle weavers off flush with the panel
£18.72 excl. VAT
Lightweight single handed grasshook with round handle. The 'straight' in the title refers to the handle being in the same plain as the...
£35.74 excl. VAT
This is the Morris General Pattern Slasher. A robust traditional style tool
£3.04 excl. VAT
The same handle as fitted to the Devon/Newtown/Knighton billhooks and Spar Hook we stock. We normally stock varnished and ...
£2.61 excl. VAT
Made for the Morris Double Edged Billhook, but will undoubtedly fit other older billhooks