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User:Anthony Appleyard merged some info from Talk:Pickaxe/Old version (when it was located at Pick) into this article (Pickaxe).--Commander Keane 04:15, 27 December 2006 (UTC)Reply
Pickax is American? Really? Everywhere I've seen it in American writing used "pickaxe", so I'd guess that at best it's a regional variation and should be treated as such. Joshua Kronengold (talk) 07:43, 6 January 2011 (UTC)Reply
Why would British pickaxe handles meet a "3 foot only" regulation. Don't they use the metric system? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.130.11 (talk) 15:16, 1 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
This article is a complete mess. I have removed the factoid section on the pickaxe handles because it was filled with the most minor details, some which were either obviously false or just plain redundant.
One such one was "A pickaxe handle is typically wood and 3 feet long" and yet another was "Pickaxe handles have been used to fend off sharks while scuba diving".
Either way the article needs a hell of a lot more work especially the beginning as it is just a bunch of sentences mentioning one off notes about the pickaxe.
I cannot work on it at the moment as I am at work but if anyone else can improve it than go right ahead. Mishka Shaw (talk) 15:44, 8 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
The picture actually shows a pick-adze, not a pickaxe. The head on the other side of the pick is clearly an adze. An axe goes the other way. Each tool has their uses. My father pointed this out one day. Given that modern men (and women) tend NOT to use tools, the confusion is understandable; I bet most people don't know what an adze is anyway. They probably think it's the American accent mangling the world pick, LOL. However, it's not really correct, and some mention of this should be made.
[minor edit: I normally sign my posts with two equal signs on email, and that makes a section :) So I fixed that ] /s/ Jgwinner (talk) 17:53, 5 December 2015 (UTC)JohnReply
I agree. Pickaxe is a misnomer; there is no such thing. There is no axe on a "pickaxe". It is an adze and therefore a pick-adze. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.113.249.200 (talk) 02:37, 30 August 2016 (UTC)Reply
I came here to say the same thing. That picture is definitely of a mattock. (Which, indeed, has an adze on one end.) Interestingly, the word mattock applies whether there is a pick or an axe on the end opposite the adze.Jtrnp (talk) 18:15, 25 July 2018 (UTC)Reply
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In the first paragraph under "Etymology", the phrase "a tool with a long handle at right angles to" is written twice. The sentence should read "a tool with a long handle at right angles to a curved iron or steel bar with a point at one end and a chisel or point at the other" but instead reads "a tool with a long handle at right angles to a tool with a long handle at right angles to a curved iron or steel bar with a point at one end and a chisel or point at the other". CleanupService (talk) 04:08, 1 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
It was used as a throwing weapon in Into the Badlands (TV series) by Pickaxe Territory. It was its most prominent use on TV screen. 5.43.173.14 (talk) 22:58, 6 October 2020 (UTC)Reply