I Do Not Have A Clue About This Thing

You go right ahead. We'll watch.

 

I appreciate receiving your thoughts and suggestions. Here's another picture. The forked end has rounded tines like not meant for chiseling or piercing. The forked end doesn't appear to have strike marks, if it where used to hold rivets or pins for setting. Heavy duty for sure.

 

Mebbe for pressing a pipe or cable down into a slit in the earth? But why the V-notch, and why the rounded pins?

Certainly is heavily built for whatever reason, and that can't be an accident.

 

I think it's a Guillotine for Beheading Moles in their tunnels...

 

Spike puller for rail road spikes ?

 

Maybe but this crazy thing takes a wooden handle, odd. Pictures stolen from internet of RR spike pullers are all steel construction with a claw end.

 

Your tool appears to be an old "docklifter". Note the tool in the center of the picture.

Vintage tools: rake, pitchfork & a dock lifter (johntaylors.com)

 

DING DING DING! We have a weiner! ECJ5 comes through again!

Dock is a "nuisance" plant with a deep taproot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumex

 

Docklifter!?

 

Good Job Ed......29 replies. This was a tough one.

 

I appreciate everyone's help, thank you.