Mystery tools

[suther51]

Interesting. Apparently, it would be both a hay and an ice saw according to this...

https://getagripandmore.com/products...ant=1018200881

If you Google "hay saw" or "ice saw" you can find the same picture.

Ice saws teeth are shaped much like a hand rip saw for wood, slight positive rake and square across the face. Hay knives have a negative rake and are sharpened as a knife would be. The offset handles are a dead giveaway also. This is so that a vertical face can be cut in the hay giving clearance for hands and handles. Out side of these differences they do indeed look very much the same.
Also ice saws were used in a standing position and as such were typically equipped with very log handles with a wooden "t" bar for a two handed grip. This was untill the gas powered ice saw were introduced. I don't have any but there must be some good old pictures of power ice saw out there.
Eric