Are these all used for the same reason

[Lloyd Levine]

Two of them have the same measurements/look, but the handle on the 3rd one is different than the other two.

[Fred Thompson]

Hay hooks, meat hooks are smaller.

[Lloyd Levine]

thanks

[Molly]

I also say hay hooks, not sure about the handled one?

[Lloyd Levine]

Thanks

[Michael]

These look like ice hooks to me.

There are also pointed ice pliers, but the hooks are also used.

[Lloyd Levine]

Thanks

[tomsantiquesetcetera]

Logged many hours using HAY HOOKS. The one with a handle is used to drag a bale and put it "in line" so that the tractor's PTO, ground-to-hay wagon conveyor can pick up the bale. Two men (or women) receive the bale and stacks them. If no conveyor, one man uses 2 hooks and his knee to lift the bale up and onto the wagon, where another using 2 hooks grabs it and stacks it. Tough work. Now they make large wheels of hay and use fork trucks. Or self-loading hay wagon trucks. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, hay hooks have been used to catch fish...sturgeon live in the Snake River (Idaho/Oregon)and grow to 15' long, around 350 years old. I think they're a protected species now.

[Lloyd Levine]

Tom, Thanks again for the great information you have provided.