✅ SOLVED Early 1800s tool?

[HAPPYCAMPER]

Found at early 1800s house site....thought maybe for grabbing baled hay but baled hay hadnt evolved yet...

 

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[AU Seeker]

I'm thinking this would've been used for removing hot kettles from the fire, A.K.A. a pot hook, it could also be used for lifting the burner plates from wood burning stoves.

Pot-hook | Define Pot-hook at Dictionary.com
[h=2]"pot·hook[/h] [pot-hoo

k] Show IPA
noun1.a hook for suspending a pot or kettle over an open fire.

2.an iron rod, usually curved, with a hook at the end, used to lift hot pots, irons, stove lids, etc."

 

[HAPPYCAMPER]

I'm thinking this would've been used for removing hot kettles from the fire, A.K.A. a pot hook, it could also be used for lifting the burner plates from wood burning stoves.

Pot-hook | Define Pot-hook at Dictionary.com
[h=2]"pot·hook[/h] [pot-hoo

k] Show IPA
noun1.a hook for suspending a pot or kettle over an open fire.

2.an iron rod, usually curved, with a hook at the end, used to lift hot pots, irons, stove lids, etc."

Nice!...makes sense also,did a google search for colonial pot hook and saw a few resembling it,imagine local blacksmith would have made to how you wanted it made so lots of variations,thanks.

 

[stefen]

Found at early 1800s house site....thought maybe for grabbing baled hay but baled hay hadnt evolved yet...

Definitely hand-wrought by a farmer (?) due to its lack of craftsmanship...a blacksmith's work would be far superior in quality and workmanship...the handle says it all...

Baled hay, as we know it today didn't make its introduction to mechanized farming until the 1930's...prior to that hay was hand cut and loosely stacked...

The hooked tool is more like a pot hook (as stated by others), but not one for carrying a heavy pot, like for rendering tallow or the like...could be for a cooking pot suspended from a swinging arm-rod in a fireplace...

 

[AU Seeker]

I'm thinking that more tools were made on site by farmers than were made by blacksmiths, due to a blacksmith possibly not being nearby and also many wouldn't be able to pay/barter for a professional made tool.

 

[gunsil]

The hook looks a little small for a pot hook, definitely crude and I don't think it is colonial at all. Look up hay sampling needles and tools.