Posted 7 years ago
Irishcolle…
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This is a metal grab with 3 prongs. It is 49 inches long with 7 inch prongs. It has a tubular outer part with 2 fixed prongs. Inside this is a bar with a ring on one end and the middle prong on the other. Turning the ring causes the single prong to turn.
This item is quite well made and does not look like a one off. It is also quite heavy to hold up for a long time. Does anyone know what this item was used for?
No idea at all....Guessing here....Black Smith item , to pick up something forged ??
I do not know ????
It is for removing Klinkers from coal furnaces
Thanks for replies. Suggestion by Patchas sounds plausible. Is this a guess or have you seen one of these before?
google: 'clinker grabber' or 'fire log grabber' for more examples
Many thanks to Patchas and Tallcakes for identifying this item, its mystery solved.
Agree w/patchas and TallCakes, made to pull 'klinkers' (whatever those actually are...chunks of coal that don't wanna burn right, I guess?) from a furnace. I remember something similar that was still hanging around the basement of the first house I really knew, which also had a huge spooky 'octopus' furnace that'd originally been coal-fired. (then converted to 'oil fired', then probably to 'gas fired' by the time we lived there?) I specifically remember the right-angled 'grabber ends' on it.