Hay Hook?

[disbud596]

Hi I am new to this forum and have a few finds that need IDing. Does anyone know what this is? I found this at a colional site in freetown massachusetts, I was thinking hay hook but the handle is odd.
Thanks in advance Kevin

 

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[clovis97]

If it is a hay hook, it is a type that I've never seen before.

All the hay hooks I've seen and used in my life were much shorter and shaped differently than the one you have pictured.

 

[old digger]

Looks like a large timber nail that was bent back into the timber to assure that it stayed in place.

 

[Sentrom]

I have seen similar hooks. They were called wagon stay hooks, but the square thing at the end was more like a bolt that threaded onto the hook.

 

[ohiowhiteguy]

captian hook's hook?
just a guess

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

Meat hook.
They look just like a hand full, my husband pulled out of the Everglades, from an old slaughter house.
They fit in to a track, so you can "run" the cow around the packing and processing facility.


I can't find pic of "exactly" the same one, this is similar. (Since when ppl hang bales of hay?)

Original OLD Industrial Iron Pulley Wheel VTG Butcher Hook Shop Meat Hanger Tool | eBay

 

[kuger]

...for sure not a Hay Hook

 

[pa plateau hiker]

Meat hook.
They look just like a hand full, my husband pulled out of the Everglades, from an old slaughter house.
They fit in to a track, so you can "run" the cow around the packing and processing facility.


I can't find pic of "exactly" the same one, this is similar. (Since when ppl hang bales of hay?)

Original OLD Industrial Iron Pulley Wheel VTG Butcher Hook Shop Meat Hanger Tool | eBay

People don't hang bales of hay. Hay hooks are used to carry the bales.

 

[disbud596]

I was thinking hay hook since the only difference between the two was the handle. Maybe for picking it up and throwing it on a cart? Who said anything about hanging the hay? Anyway...if done a little more research on the site. It was an old sawmill beside a river. I found similar log hooks....what do u think?

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

Ok, maybe a hook to hang tools. If you say it was found at a sawmill, well perhaps some kind of tool/hook used at a saw mill. If you said you found it in a hay barn, well go with hay hooks for $200 Alex, if it had been found at an old slaughter house, I would say, meat hook.
Looks like we might can all agree on a hook.

Could be someone's meat hook, they used at the sawmill, to hang their hay?

 

[doc-d]

Agreed, it is a hook for sure.