Daxgrai

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A Daxgrai

The Daxgrai (also: Daxngrei , Daxngrai, Daxnkrei , Daxnkrai , Daxnhau, Brax ( Austrian )) is an agricultural and forestry tool that is widespread in old Bavaria and in parts of the Alpine region . It is used for limbing ( bayr. : , Ausnasten ' ) of conifers and for crushing the branches of conifers ( bayr. : Daxn =, spruce - fir twigs, rare flops - or pine branches') and for chopping kindling .

Typical of a Daxgrai is the relatively straight, heavy blade and the upwardly curved hook on the front blade back, which is also used to pull branches and twigs. The Daxgrai is a specialized form of a hatchet (common hatchets prove to be unsuitable for this task), in which the blade is firmly connected to the handle and the extended cutting edge for chopping off branches from the tree or chopping branches on a chopping block opposite the handle is extended to the front. The length of a Daxgrai is around 40 cm .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vielwald. (PDF, 52 pages, 1.7 MB) . Das Magazin der Bayerischen Staatsforsten, Issue: 05 / December 2008, Bayerische Staatsforsten Anstalt des Public Law, Regensburg, www.baysf.de , page 23, accessed on January 19, 2011 (archive).
  2. ^ Bavarian dictionary. (PDF, 290 pages, 2.7 MB), on: Bayrisches-Woerterbuch.de , page 51, accessed on: April 12, 2019 (archive).
  3. ↑ Bavarian Alm dictionary. Published by: Heimat- & Geschichtsverein Achental eV, Grassau (Upper Bavaria) , accessed on: April 12, 2019 (archive).
  4. ↑ My favorite Bavarian word. Dialect library with 5,000 collected expressions from the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and the State Association for Homeland Care. Bayerischer Rundfunk , (PDF, 101 pages, 644 kB), page 17, accessed: April 12, 2019 (archive).
  5. ↑ Lexicon of dialect variants in the Pinzgau - details on the word "Brax" (Genus: f.): Haumesser for chopping and delimbing in forestry. From: Leoganger Bergbau-Museumsverein (Salzburger Land) , http://www.pinzgauer-mundart.at , accessed on: April 12, 2019 (archive).
  6. ↑ Alois Schwaiger , Leonhard Höck: Pinzgauer Mundartlexikon. (PDF, 135 pages, 4 MB), page 73, Pinzgauer Heimatverein (Salzburger Land) , accessed on: April 12, 2019 ( Salzburg ).