Name that tool!

[Millbert]

Morning from a soggy, snowy Haute Savoie,

 

Please see the attached pics of a tool I found on a job in the summer, wondered if anyone had any ideas what it is?

 

I think it might be for levering something or a wood working tool but not sure?

 

Cheers,

 

Chris

[treesrus]

perhaps it once had a long wooden handle and was used as a lever for a specific job.

[TGB]

If it weren't for the one end being formed into a spike, I'd have said it was a door lifter. For taking the weight when fitting/adjusting/lowering household doors.

 

Something like this:

 

Maybe it is that, coupled with a gouging tool. For when the door is to be retained; but the old frame is to come out.

Edited January 7, 2016 by TGB

[drinksloe]

Could it be some sort of stand? Like a wire birly/fence wire spinner?

Althou being square not ideal, just looks like some sort of collar half way up and u put the chisel bit into the ground up to the other bit that sticks out so always the same hieght??

 

Used to get a slightly similatr old tool like that for pulling thistle roots out but had a forked end and no collar.

[Millbert]

Thanks for the ideas folks. I thought it might be a door lifter but end is quite thick. I think it's for workshop rather than outside but who knows!

 

Enjoy your day everyone

 

Chru

[treequip]

It looks like a blacksmiths cut off tool

 

The spike is odd, they normally fit in the "hardie hole" of an anvil but who knows what peculiarities they get up to in Frenchieland

[farmer rod]

its for breaking the runners free on your sled:lol:

[Millbert]

Don't need sled today!

[Paul in the woods]

It looks like a blacksmiths cut off tool

 

The spike is odd, they normally fit in the "hardie hole" of an anvil but who knows what peculiarities they get up to in Frenchieland

 

That's what I thought. Perhaps it's for hammering into a log, the spike goes into the log/bench and the flat bit down from the chisel end is used to hammer the thing into the log/bench?

[treequip]

That's what I thought. Perhaps it's for hammering into a log, the spike goes into the log/bench and the flat bit down from the chisel end is used to hammer the thing into the log/bench?

 

That would be my guess, wouldn't want to try to get it out though