Right at the start we find Colin, the hero, who's come to visit his poor old mum, standing in the kitchen, fantasising about taking a hatchet to her.
It was a small hatchet ; a leather gripping wrapped around the handle, the blade lying on its side.
The Court was told that the two men used an imitation firearm, a hatchet and a hammer in the course of the robbery.
He had survival gear, rope, a bowie knife, a hatchet .
A long handle version is about 36 inches long; a short handle, like a hatchet , is 16 to 20 inches.
A 19-YEAR-OLD was chased to his home by a 25-year-old man carrying a hatchet and a knife, Limerick Circuit Court heard yesterday.
The damage to the limestone monument appears to have been carried out with a heavy instrument such as a hatchet , since there are large indentations on the remaining plinths which managed to withstand the attack.
A mallet, a block plane with front horn, and a small hatchet are located below the framing square.
Beside her lay the bloodied hatchet used to kill her.
It being dark I could not give a death blow; the hatchet glanced from his head.