"He would beat his sweeps out on this here iron."

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    Photo: William Arnett, 1998
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"There's a vice for holding anything for sharpening, holding it tight, like your sweeps and hoe, sling blades, brush ax, anything like that. He would beat his sweeps out on this here iron. It come off the railroad. I don't know when he got it. The wood come off the railroad, too, pieces of cross-ties. And two of his old single plows and a wheel."