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I have found several of each of these. The strange part is all have come from wading in fresh water lakes. Wagon fittings maybe?
 
Simpler design but apparently serves the same function. 6" long
 
Steve the one in the first photo is as found. The "spear" part is 5" L and the loop is about 4" dia.
I'm in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan where the large White Pine forests were lumbered off by 1895. Could have something to do with the ice cutting operations but one of the lakes these cam from very seldom freezes.
Tom
 
Could it be that these were driven into a log with a hammer, to serve as a loop for a hook or rope?? Maybe for a hand rope along a foot bridge? Is the loop in the first pic free swinging? Are you tired of all these questions???
<img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
...I figured it had to do with the great log drives. All winter, logs were skidded onto the ice to await the spring thaw, then driven down through the series of lakes and rivers throughout the northern country to the mills.
My guess would be a dog for driving into a log to make a boom.
 
Stan, The loop end does swing and I think you are close in your guess. My first thought is they were driven into logs so they could be tied together and rafted to the sawmill. Tom
 
Must be since two great mind agree. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> I call it a spud rather than a dog tho. <img src="/metal/html/grin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":grin">
 
Also how do you type "about" like you canucks say it?? <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
...actually, the boots the log drivers wore had spikes in them for jumping log to log. I believe they called them corkers.
In the old days in my hometown, the log drive would be held up for a few days cause there was a hotel in town. The logging company, Hubble, offered to pay the hotel owner to shut down every spring, but there was more money to be had selling whiskey to the lads.
Of course, after a long winter in the bush camps, the boys were raring to go and the stop over in town tended to get rowdy. Part of the annual fun was the drag down dirty fist-fights between champions of rival camps. It was customary that the winner of the fight raked the face of his vanquished opponent with the spikes of his boots.
Though the coming of the railroad killed the log drives long before I was born, I remember hearing all about a fellow in the area that after all those years kept a bushy beard to hide those marks...
 
They were used to tie log rafts together, Hammar it in and tie the logs together to get them to the mills.
Dean Owen
Whitby Ontario Canada
 
Doesn't really matter what you use them for.I've found dozens around a sawing pit at a shipbuilding site. Driven into logs and used in conjunction with hooks,rope and pulleys to move the logs around,they were pryed right off with a heavy pointed pry bar.They surely were used also on the river runs.Although they are iron, they do give a good signal to most detectors at the right depth because of the circular shape.
 
...speaking of which, dang, is it cold enough for you tonight?
At least we're not out in Newfoundland where it was -20
 
scuba dive , or drop a camera into those lakes and pull out some historic white pine.
 
Thanks guys, here'a a pic of one of the lakes. There were several sawmills located on it at one time. Now its very popular in the summer for boating and swimming which makes it a good spot for rings. <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=";)">
Tom
 
Where bouts in the Northern lower Peninsula area? Traverse City here.
 
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