I picked up this old tool with one of the lifters on the swather. It was in the near vicinity of an old homestead, at least 100 years old. But no one seems to know what it is.



This is a close-up of the point.



Thanks for any help.

Bushmaster, sorry can't help on what it is but I metal detect a lot of old homesteads and find tons of odd shaped items. I'm convinced that the old timers fashioned a lot of things to meet their needs.
Cleaning that stuff out of the farmers fields gets me a lot of permissions.

Looks like a handle to left the top of an old cook stove.
You could use it to clean out duck bill and super stake anchors

I think it might work for pulling fence staples.

Moosetrot

I agree.

Well, it failed miserably as a tow hook.

Definitely a pig castrating tool.

its always a pig castrator lol

strange old tool=Hal

One of these days someone WILL find a pig castrater and tlguy is going to b right

It certainly looks like an old cook stove lid-lifter.

round steel with a square taper if you just need a point why go to the trouble of making it square looks like a stove tool to me.

It’s a 100 year old colonoscopy tool......

Straightened out Meat hook

Stove lid or Dutch oven lid lifter.

Bent gate latch

The newly found antique or primitive tool is:

A. A horse hoof / horseshoe pick or scraper.

B. A tool for the first step in “Early Americana” waterboarding.

C. A doctor’s tongue depressor.

D. A rusty needle from a present day flu shot syringe.

E. All of the above.

My first thought was a hoof pick as well.

picture this with the lid lifter in the picture above and I think it will be more obvious based on it's shape the geometry is right for a lid lifter

Hoof pick sounds good. How about a Picture with something for Size reference?