iron tool?

[kiddrock33]

what is it? it has a knife edge a pigtailed end and a scoop on the other end. kiddrock33

 

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[wildrider]

How about a steak turner?

ya hook the steak and flip it. Maybe someone in the local Cattlemans Association lost it at a cookout.

I have on, but mine is stainess.

I don't know what the scoop would be.

Burt

 

[Cynangyl]

We have a pigtail food flipper as well but not iron....maybe that is the old kind and the wooden handle got burnt off lol

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I have used an identically shaped tool - but 1/5 that size - for pulling the packing put of a propeller shaft stuffing box on a boat. The packing comes in strips (Used to be hemp greased with white lead, now it's synthetic). To pack the shaft you wrap it in three or four turns of the gasket strip, slice it along the shaft so it becomes a series of "C" rings and not a spiral, and then alternate the slits and stuff them in along the shaft inside the "box" with the cupped end. The old gasket is pulled out first with the curley end. Mine was for a 1-1/4" prop shaft on a small boat. That one could be for a "real" ship or large boat.

No idea if that's what your object is, but it is identical to the tool I described. Any similar job - where you're digging out a fiberous mass at the bottom of a long, narrow space - that would work.

I've also seen tooth extractors that shape but smaller - God help our ancestors.

 

[wesfrye53]

I agree with the packing puller idea. We use similar tools, although smaller, where I work to pull old packing out of large centrifugal pumps. Prior to electrical motors, large water pumps were driven by very large steam engines. Not sure if that's what your tool was used for, but maybe something you might want to check into.

 

[lockman209]

Is it a poker for a fire place or stove?

 

[jonnyrebel00]

it does have a similiar end of a packing puller but its way bigger than any puller i have ever used. sorry i dont have any ideas.

good luck

 

[stefen]

Grounding stake dfor tying dogs, etc.

 

[jonnyrebel00]

packing puller sounds interesting . it is 42 inches long. has a knife edge . i have seen similar looking items used for a canon tool . called a cradle which would place the desired amount of gunpowder into the barrel hence the scoop. another tool used for canon was the curly end to hold a sponge. and clean out debris. the point of the curly cue would be used to inspect for cracks otr defects in the cannon. by placing a ball of wax onto point and making impression of defect. oakum was used on ships which would require a tool like mentioned above . it would be very good if this is something linked to ships,.dating it would be very good also. it might be enough evidance for me to obtain the permit i have long sought after from the state of massachusetts. i believe that this might be very important to identify. if this does pertain to a ship then the next mystery would be is why is it here where i found it. http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/source/is3/is3e.htm this was sent to me kiddrock33

i think this might be it. Great job Kidd

 

[whispers]

pharoic brain excavation device?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

LOL. That came to mind, too, from the shape. They were inserted up the nose after fracturing the sinus bones to extract the brain. Haven't seen a mummy with a 42" nose . . . crocodile?

Doubt you could balance a wax pellet on the curled end and have enough "purchase" to press it sideways into the bore.

Next question would be construction. Is it iron or steel or some other metal? Where was it found (looks in too good a shape to have been in the soil very long). Is the handle welded or pinned on by forging? Drawn out of the same blank as the tip? Gas welded to seperate rod?

 

[buckaroo]

I have seen similar tools that are used to clean out holes after drilling for dynamite.

 

[relic lover]

Cannon cleaning tool, deck gun maybe. in theory

 

[Gypsy Heart]

I think its an early glassmakers tool....a pouty rod......

 

[savant365]

This looks close, yours might have have been hand made out of necessity...

 

[savant365]

sorry, forgot to post the link where I found this pic...http://bronzecannon.net/

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Yes....I think Savant nailed it....looks like that pic....

 

[EDDE]

if there was any mining in the area
possible its used for pulling dud dynamite charges

 

[wildrider]

Yes....I think Savant nailed it....looks like that pic....

Hey! Make up your mind. I was siding with the glass blowing theory.

I did that this past Christmas. Great fun and keeps you warm too.

I think the glass was like 2000+ degrees.

Pretty Ornaments.

Burt

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Yes....I think Savant nailed it....looks like that pic....

Hey! Make up your mind. I was siding with the glass blowing theory.

I did that this past Christmas. Great fun and keeps you warm too.

I think the glass was like 2000+ degrees.

Pretty Ornaments.

Burt

Well I thought it looked exactly like the pouty....then I saw that sword pic.....what can I say....