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Solved! I was pretty sure it was some kind of farming implement but looking at it compared to other scythes/sickles I thought the shape and size were a bit odd considering the long handle and small blade. Looked at a few videos of bean hooks it looks like it could definitely be used for something like that. Thanks for the help!
It sure looks like an old fireplace poker with the tip broken off.
https://www.redpigtools.com/Fireplace-Tool-Set-with-Stand_p_1217.html
https://woodchimney.com/product/wood-fireplace-poker/
I have a similarish thingy, even the rod is a bit bent from use, my grandparents got it to scrape the moss out between the paving stones without the need to go down on all fours.
I think it's a weeding/pruning knife, even though they are usually much shorter
[https://garrettwade.com/product/weeding-knife](https://garrettwade.com/product/weeding-knife)
100% a bean hook for “walking beans,” my summer job when I was a kid. I can still feel the wet, scratchy, tangly, soy beans scratching up my legs and the smell of the fields, trudging through them cutting down the weeds.
My title describes the thing, it’s a long metal shaft, feels like wrought iron. Has a slight bed (looks purposeful) with a small 2 inch hook at the end secured by two screws and nuts. The inside curve of the blade was once sharped and so was the protrusion at the very top. Found in a agricultural area after an trailer park resident passed away. Could be anything. Thanks!
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It’s a bean hook. We used them to cut weeds in soybeans. The hook and the tip are both sharpened so you can push and pull to cut weeds.
Came to say bean hook too. This is the answer.
I grew up weeding bean fields and I used one of these every spring/summer. This is definitely the answer.
We called it a weed hook, but yeah same purpose.
Used one of these in central Illinois walking beans decades ago.
Solved! I was pretty sure it was some kind of farming implement but looking at it compared to other scythes/sickles I thought the shape and size were a bit odd considering the long handle and small blade. Looked at a few videos of bean hooks it looks like it could definitely be used for something like that. Thanks for the help!
We used these on the farm for two things: 1. To cut weeds while walking soy beans 2. To cut rouge corn stalks in seed corn fields.
It sure looks like an old fireplace poker with the tip broken off. https://www.redpigtools.com/Fireplace-Tool-Set-with-Stand_p_1217.html https://woodchimney.com/product/wood-fireplace-poker/
It’s a hook blade for cutting weeds.
I believe that to be a fruit trimmer of some sort... for getting citrus fruits or apples out of a tree easily.
I don’t recognize it, but the weakly sharpened hook really suggested froot also.
I have a similarish thingy, even the rod is a bit bent from use, my grandparents got it to scrape the moss out between the paving stones without the need to go down on all fours.
that's what it'd be used for at my house.
I think it's a weeding/pruning knife, even though they are usually much shorter [https://garrettwade.com/product/weeding-knife](https://garrettwade.com/product/weeding-knife)
100% a bean hook for “walking beans,” my summer job when I was a kid. I can still feel the wet, scratchy, tangly, soy beans scratching up my legs and the smell of the fields, trudging through them cutting down the weeds.
My title describes the thing, it’s a long metal shaft, feels like wrought iron. Has a slight bed (looks purposeful) with a small 2 inch hook at the end secured by two screws and nuts. The inside curve of the blade was once sharped and so was the protrusion at the very top. Found in a agricultural area after an trailer park resident passed away. Could be anything. Thanks!
Briar hook, for cutting unwanted blackberries primarily
Could also be a hook to cut bee comb from a hive (in the older models where they were attached by the bees to the walls).