todays auction netted a bunch of whatsits, but I'll start with an easy one (I hope).

I can almost see what this hook is for, but it's just out of my minds aye.

tractor?

hay loft?

tow truck?

thanks

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10 gallon hat hook?  lol

I believe that hooks the tug lines from the horses harness to the wagon, or double tree.   The tug lines were leather with a few links of chain on the end.

It's a button-hole hook! No sorry, I don't recognize it

 I think your question mark fell over. Looks a little large for a hame hook but I haven't seen one for a while and don't have a better guess.

I think I've seen something similar on a block & tackle.  It slipped into a keyhole slot.  gene

>I think I've seen something similar on a block & tackle.  It slipped into a keyhole slot.  gene

That's why It looked familiar, it goes into a beam trolly...

Rusty has it, I wasn't sure of my answer and its been bugging me.   

What you have there is an eye hook, at least in this part of the country.  In other areas it's called a winch hook or a cable hook.

It slips into the spliced or swaged eye on the end of a cable slides through the eye and seats into the eye when the button rests against one side of the eye.  On the plus side, they're handy.  On the minus side they can and do fall out, especially from cables on deck winches when going down the road.  There was a time when every line truck carried one so the winch cable on the A frame or boom could be wrapped around a pole instead of using a sling.  OSHA changed that!

You can determine what size cable it fits by measuring the mouth of the hook and deducting 1/16" if the hook ain't been stretched.

I can only repeat what my grandfather and father taught me
a atrace hook -- hooks the traces of the harness to the tree(wiffle)
b tree hook is part of the tree ( the trace hooks here)
c a eye hook ( MANY USES)
when i worked for the power company we used a hook like the one in above post on the end of a hotstick the mushroom fit right into the end of the hotstick. but i have been wrong a good many times bob w

AH ha!!

this came from an auction of a guy who worked for the power company.

Sometimes things followed him home.

thanks for the good ideas.

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