It is old and made of metal and is the size of a large garden fork it is very heavy and once had a wooden handle.It has seven prongs which are flat and approximatly 9 inches long, the tips are barbed like a harpoon.It was obviously handmade by a blacksmith many years ago. Any help in identifying it and finding out what it was used for would be greatly appreciated.
2007-10-13 07:43:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
maybe a eel fork used for spearing eels. that's what most multy pronged spears were for. eels were a popular food years ago and were harvested by building eel traps on rivers men wold stand on above the narrow part of trap an spear the eel as it swam by.
2007-10-13 09:50:06 · answer #1 · answered by snow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Possibly for spearfishing, possibly for removing rhizomatous weeds like quackgrass by pulling them up to the surface.
2007-10-13 08:04:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like a hay fork.
2007-10-13 07:52:13 · answer #3 · answered by tysdad62271 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It may have been for spearing fish.
2007-10-13 07:49:15 · answer #4 · answered by ijcoffin 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋