Long Narrow Tool

[tzins]

I would appreciate the group's help in identifying this tool. Overall length is about 3 feet and the offset end is about 4 inches long. The tang is flattened on the end. I got it in with a large collection of Ford flathead parts.
Thanks.

[Twilight Fenrir]

It's a little hard to tell from the photos, but does it look hand made? Kind of reminds me of the tent stake pullers we use at our historical reenactments. Not QUITE, but it's close enough that it could be someone's interpretation of one... And 3 feet would be about the right length...

[gibsontool]

I think it resembles a poker for a wood or coal stove but looks to be 1/4" or so in Diameter which would  probably be too light to be of much use in that application.
 I've had a couple of flatheads way back when and I can't picture how this guy would be of any use. I'm thinking maybe somebody built it as a poker and realized it was too light so they threw it  in the closest box and forgot about it. Seems to me I've done that a time or two when things didn't perform as expected.

[tzins]

I thank you gentlemen for your comments. The diameter of the rod, used to make the tool, is 1/2 inch. I followed up on the fire poker possibility and found several examples that look very much like what I have. I'm pretty sure that's what it is. I appreciate your help very much. Keep up the good work.

[Offwith]

We have a nearly identical on dangling off our forge-rail. It gets used for clearing out slag from around the tuyere. However, its not very good at it, so that might not be its original use!

Offwith

[Lostmind]

I'd use it for pulling out the lift arms , so you don't have to bend down.
The lift makers usually supplied them.
It was made for something he had to do often , and didn't like the alternative?