Firefighter Tool

[How Lucky]

Item measures 8"X4". Hopefully I can get more information from under the rust. I'll post more pictures when I get it cleaned up.

 

[vpnavy]

I pulled these from other TN threads...

United States Department of Agriculture
A Practical Ax Manual Brief History of the Ax. Here are a few pictures - a bunch more on the website

Axe Head (Mar 18, 2010)

Hammer (Better Pics) (Feb 20, 2008)
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[pepperj]

Don't ever recall one ever posted up before. Cool recovery.

 

[scruggs]

That is a nice one! Congratulations!

 

[against the wind]

Looks more like it would be used for splitting than for cutting.
Congratulations on a cool find.

 

[sawmill man]

I think it is a homemade hookaroon, alot of oldtimers would make them out of old axes we call them tie picks around here, used to pull flethes and lumber from sawmill rollers, move logs around and what ever else came up. you can buy them new ,just look up Hookaroon. Another use for the same style is a dogging hammer, used to drive skidding dogs into logs ,and the pointed end to pry the dogs loose.

 

[RVRoamer74]

Very cool find....

 

[devldog]

That looks like a half of a pick head axe head. A "Rookie Firefighter" must have broke this. They could break most anything. Lol Nice find. Pick head axes were widely used in Fire Dept.'s and still used today.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the old iron artifact

 

[How Lucky]

Turns out Sawmill Man hit the nail on the head. This is an early style, hand forged, logging Hookaroon, Pickaroon or Picaroon head. Well what do you know, my first pickaroon! Has all the indentations of being hand forged and I can not find any makers mark.