What Is It?

Or a butcher shop meat hook! or ice block handler?

It's a specialized tool used by certain hookers. You really don't want to see it in use.

Or part of the golf swing corrector used in the movie "Honeysuckle Rose".

Shown here without the harness that went over the shoulders. Its purpose was to keep the wearer from lifting their head. You can imagine where the business end was placed.

I beleive it! if it is sitting on that bed!!!!

They have that for baled hay also.

Yep. A hay hook has a little bit longer shank. I have logged a a lot of time with a pair of that particular misery tool.

I found it difficult to keep track of it, (where i set it down) And abandon it. I often wondered why the different size shanks. And on the farm I always found haying that it wasn't the tool that made it hard, it was the work. ;)

You had it easy. We didn't have baled hay until I was a teenager. We harvested our hay with a team of horses and stacked it in the fields. Pitch forks were my weapon of torture.

It's a hook.

It's a stage prop from the 1904 production of J.M. Barrie's most famous play "Peter and Wendy".

It's a shower curtain hook for an elephant wash........"STELLAAAA!!"

Abu Qatada's prosthetic hand?
Kris made me say it.
Del

A hook for keeping unruly new engineering recruits in line!

Outch!!!!!! it is a hook for fishermen!

It is a SRH (Shark Retrieving Hook).

Ya'll know what I mean!

Yes there's a few pics here of different type of ice hooks, tongs and such.

http://www.google.com/search?q=ice+hook&hl=en&client=safari&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=eXGwT5GqIcTm0QHC1cCGDA&ved=0CGoQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=644

Matter of fact, the very same pic is listed here.

Good Answer but from an engineering point of view why didnt they make the handle out of wood ?

They would float if you dropped one in the river and the handle wouldnt transmit the cold chill into your hand.

why is it so gwasshopper ?

Strength and permanence. How do you know there was not, at one time, a wooden cover on the handle?

Strength and reliability is correct, when you were using them, and the handled pulled off. it was as good as useless.

Working on the farm, if the handle came off a shovel, fork or broom. that took time from your work day to fix it.

true

there could have been a wooden cover over that handle once upon a time , 3/8 " round bar wouldnt give a great force distribution into a mans cold hand in winter would it.

:)

Capt Mosie got this one, It is an Ice Hook. Seen many in my time, haven't seen one in years though. This area where I live has a history of ice houses in all local towns on the Hudson River. My neighbors house was once an ice house, now converted to a house. Amazing history around here.

GA Capt.

Congrats to you Cap.

I actually own an ice house in SW Minnesota. It's next door to the red barn I used to use as my avatar.

The walls are very thick. They were fairly common once, but are now very rare.

Thanks lyn!!! ***GRINZZZZ***

Skyhook!

Its a bale hook for man-handling wool bales and other baled goods

yep . exact type used for handling wool bales when i was a kid

Oh, don Corleone again ... He sends such nice presents ... I wander, though, which godfather is it this time?

I have used a hook like that to pick up bales of hay to load onto truck/trailer

Interesting that the hook is in line with the handle, the bale hooks I used had the hook perpendicular to the handle.

Tony

I agree--the hay hooks I have seen had the handle at 90 degrees to the hook. So I'll go along with "ice hook: for this particular one.

See my comment at #21 above. I think the handle is at 90° to the hook.

If the tool was indeed all in one plane as it first appears to be then there would be a shadow similar to the one at the end of the hook in the parts of the handle which appear to be parallel to the end on the hook.

so whats with the ocassional empty / deleted posts here on CR4 ?

are they spam or offensive posts at other members ?

i need to be faster to catch them before deleted huh ;)

Look at the top right hand corner of my post: you should see a little +

Just click on the plus or minus to expand/contract any post.

The comment is contracted because I marked it "off topic". This post should also be off topic, but then you wouldn't be able to read this, and, you would just be getting more frustrated.

If you go to your user profile you can change the way off topic comments are displayed by default:-

Just change the Off-Topic Comments drop down from "I want off-topic comments to be minimised" to the other choice shown above.

Or of course you may wish to leave things as they are and ignore the off-topic drivel which several of us post from time to time .

beautiful

thankyou kindly

I was thinking the same thing. It's the orientation of the handle to the hook that makes this seem like it should be for something hanging vertically. Hauling frozen Meat around on overhead rails would be easier with a hook like this...

I agree with you, except the handle as shown is kind of elongated horizontally instead of being rounded which will ensure the meats to remain centered onto the hanging rails..

I meant for the handlers to use this hook. The hanging hooks have two hooks, one for each hock.

It is either an "Ice Hook" used for handling blocks of ice OR a "Hay Bale" tine used for handling bales of hay and straw. By the rust on the tip, I'd say it is an Ice hook.

It's a general purpose hook used at the time it was forged to help in accomplishing many jobs. I have seen them on the farm to move bales, in an ice house and a buddy has one like that he uses in tree work. I can imagine that they used one like it to load bales of cotton ship board.

The article that the picture was taken from says it was used as an ice hook.

http://lifeinadeeryard.blogspot.com/2011/04/antigue-ice-hook.html

Take your pick:Bale Hooks - Image Results

Tony Hawk's custom parking brake.

_{I just cannot be serious all the time.}

It's for 'gaffing' cats when you coax them out of your favourite armchair. Del doesn't know I said that .

Very intense back scratcher!

According to the image source (sstools.blogspot.com) it's an antique ice hook.

Not just ice, but all kinds of packages and hay bales. When packages used to say "use no hooks" this is the type of hook they were referring to.

A psychological tool that allows some police to get the "absolute truth".

Ahhh the "absolute truth" they want! Nice.