Help ID- Antique 7' Metal Hoe?

[wvtools]

Here is the link that I found.  You have to put Coke Oven Tools in your google search and then click on the images tab and then scroll down quite a bit.  Then when you click on the tools, you have to go to the page they came from (the one linked below) and then scroll down again to Coke.

https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/gutenberg.org/4/9/4/8/49489/49489-h/49489-h.htm

[moparthug]

I saw a very similar tool hanging on the wall at a railroad museum several years ago, that could be another use for it.

[bill300d]

Certainly could.

[turnnut]

locomotives, yes,  I can remember the old coal fired trains going thru town and dropping clinkers between the tracks.
some of the poor folks would poke through them and collect the good sized ones to use in their stoves.

some of you may remember the porter telling you not to flush the toilets while the train was sitting at a station
picking up more passengers or parcels..

[Papaw]

Watch this video of a Steam powered fire fighting unit. About 39 seconds in, you will see a similar tool/
https://www.facebook.com/1531776583754542/videos/1705983169667215/

[gibsontool]

Thanks for the link,nice old machine.

[51cub]

Never fails. I get one I have a good answer for, and I'm late to the party. Apparently, it's the way I roll