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35: 918: 962: 402: 940: 153:, Helldivers are equipped with sickle-like weapons called slingBlades, crude cutting weapons intended to sever the Helldiver's limbs if they are caught in machinery. The protagonist, Darrow, later acquires a slingBlade during the course of a war game. After breaking the rules of the game and attacking the Proctors, he gains popularity as "The Reaper", with the slingBlade acting as his sigil. 140:), the main character, recounts an incident from his childhood in which he killed his mother and her paramour with this tool. Childers describes it as, "Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a Kaiser blade. It's kinda got a long wooden handle, kind of like an axe handle. With a long blade on it shaped kinda like a 57:
at the end of a long (around 100-centimetre (40 in)) handle that is usually made of wood. The blade is double-edged, and both sides are usually kept sharp. It is used to cut brush, briar, and undergrowth. Other common names for the tool are
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in south eastern North Carolina. Its use in wildland fire has been substantially superseded by the
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and a 36-inch (91 cm) to 48-inch (120 cm) handle. It is commonly used by
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Page from the 1954 True Temper catalogue, showing a variety of types of sling blades
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from trails, as well as by homeowners and gardeners to clear thick brush.
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It generally has a 12-inch (30 cm) to 16-inch (41 cm) curved
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Sling Blade (film)


steel
blade
Plover, Wisconsin
wildland firefighting
chainsaw
blade
surveying
firefighters
undergrowth
Sling Blade
Billy Bob Thornton
bananer
Red Rising
Billhook
Bill (weapon)
Slasher (tool)
"Brushing Tools"
"Trail Tools: Brushing Tools - American Trails"
Archived
"Sling Blade: Quotes"
IMDb.com
"Red Rising by Pierce Brown Book Review"
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Forestry
tools

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