Pulaski (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.

It is also well adapted for trail construction, and can be used for gardening and other outdoor work for general excavation and digging holes in root-bound or hard soil.

A tool that serves the same purpose was used in the Alps for over 300 years for planting trees (Wiedehopfhaue) or the dolabra in ancient Rome.

Pulaski was famous for taking action to save the lives of a crew of 45 firefighters during the disastrous August 1910 wildfires in Idaho.

His invention (or reinvention[4]) of a combination axe and adze may have been a result of the disaster, as he saw the need for better firefighting tools.