Featured Strange t-shaped tool that's not an auger or ream

I would appreciate any help in identifying this tool. My cousin has it over in Suwannee county in a small personal museum. He has no idea what it is, and I didn't catch where he got it. Everyone over there was a tobacco farmer, so I suspect it's some kind of farm implement. The tip is strange, not at all like an auger or reamer. I imagine it's for thrusting into something (not ice), and the t-handle must be for turning. But it escapes me. Not like a bung cleaner or anything I've seen. The handle is about 10-11" wide and the tool is about 14" long. Any ideas?

 

Maybe for a bale of straw or cotton or such?

 

I was thinking something like that too, but I can't find any confirmation.

 

neat tool !

 

It reminds me of a plastic tool I have to pull hair out of a clogged sink drain only it is too big. However, you might investigate along the lines of something that catches and pulls it out. Either that or a specific type of reamer designed to pull debris out as it is pulled out.

 

That's a great suggestion.

 

reminds me of something seen on 'To Catch A Smuggler" where inspectors are often ramming similar sampling probes/augers into products/goods to find illegal substances...

 

Is the tip of this square?

 

Maybe a rasp for squaring up the corners of a hole, for post and beam construction.

 

No, it's definitely pointed.

 

It does look like that would apply.

 

That's a good suggestion, but it doesn't seem very rasp-like, especially being pointed. I would imagine that type of rasp being like a float.

 

No, I mean is the entire barbed area square? or just 2 sided like the picture shows

 

Oh, I see. No, it's sort of rhomboid shaped. Like a mostly flattened square. If that makes any sense. The closeup from "moreotherstuff" shows the tip better. Sorry I didn't take an edge-on view. It's definitely blade-shaped. I would've said for spear fishing if it wasn't for the t-shaped handle, which seems to imply needing to turn it.

 

Oh, OK. I got nothing then. I was thinking it was some kind of broaching tool, if it was square, for making a round hole in a piece of wood into a square hole to accept a peg.

 

That would've been brilliant.

 

"t-shaped handle, which seems to imply needing to turn it."

Think it equally implies lifting. Whatever it went into, it didn't have to be hammered in, so ice is out.

 

it seems to want to rough out a hole that's already bored..........