What is it ?

3 foot long out of 1/4 inch square stock...........hand forged ? ......sharp fork on the end

Old pot bellied stove rake to find the live ashes to start the fire.

Frozen-in trap puller

Backside itcher

Wow I get to be the first to say Pig Castrator.

X2

That is what I was thinking. Or for the fire place, or wood burning kitchen stove

Hotdog/Marshmallow roaster.




Charlie

Crucible tongs; for lifting a fire assay crucible out of a furnace.
Most modern crucible tongs are made for pulling the crucible horizontally out of a assay furnace door, the tongs are flat (same plane as the handle). Those where made for lifting a crucible vertically out the top of a furnace.

I think waggler got it. I was going to guess it was for pulling iron out of a forge, his suggestion sounds right on.

for use after the pig castrator

I was going to guess to pull clinkers out of a coal furnace.
On the other hand--adjust the coals in a forge
just

A tool for moving wood around in a camp fire.

It's for roasting hot dogs over a campfire.

It's too delicate for any kind of normal size fire I think.

old men use em to lift their testicles off the ground and put em back in their pocket without having to bend over.

are they for sale?

If anyone ever puts a pic of a pig castrator on here,no one will know what it is.

good

might have also been picked up at a rondy for lifting lids off of dutch ovens on the coals

Here is a picture of a new crucible charging fork for a modern horizontally accessed assay furnace. I'm pretty sure the one the OP has is an antique crucible charging fork used in a furnace that loads from the top.

You like your 'oysters' lightly toasted, or burnt on the outside?

Whatever it once was I could definitely repurpose it into a meat fork for flipping butts and ribs.