please help ID mystery tool?

Folks,

hopefully someone might know what this tool is... forged steel, flat/ chisel edge at each end, rest of the body is round in cross section except the end at the top of the image, no markings. Ruler in the image is metric millimeters.
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My SWAG (Scientific Wild-Assed Guess) - almost certainly wrong

A handleless double-ended form of swan neck chisel used to clean up the bottoms of mortises, etc.

A jobbing bricky I new used a tool just like that to dismantle a brick wall to save the bricks, the top is struck with a lump hammer. Looks like a forged tool.

Perhaps simply a general purpose prying tool. Short in length, but beefy for strength. Could be used exactly as olderdan described or in many different situations.

I like Marv's SWAG

It appears to me to be a tool we use to use to adjust brakes. The tool is inserted in a slot thru the backing plate and a star adjuster wheel was turned to tighten the slack (wear) of the brakes.

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Originally Posted by desbromilow

Folks,

hopefully someone might know what this tool is... forged steel, flat/ chisel edge at each end, rest of the body is round in cross section except the end at the top of the image, no markings. Ruler in the image is metric millimeters.
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We used them in the railways. I was a mechanical fitter in the WAGR (Western Austrailian Government Railways) back in the late 60's, mainly on steam locomotives and rolling stock. The point end was placed inside a large split pins and a hammer was used on the other end to knock the split pins out of their holes. Sometimes the pin wouldn't come out or the head would breake off so the other end would be used as a short chizzel to cut the head and tail off the pin. Then the not or whatever the pin was located in could be removed. Hadn't see one of those in decades.

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Originally Posted by desbromilow

Folks,

hopefully someone might know what this tool is... forged steel, flat/ chisel edge at each end, rest of the body is round in cross section except the end at the top of the image, no markings. Ruler in the image is metric millimeters.
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Split pin removal and installation tool, I still have one somewhere.

Old stone mason tools...
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Originally Posted by paulogr

We used them in the railways. I was a mechanical fitter in the WAGR (Western Austrailian Government Railways) back in the late 60's, mainly on steam locomotives and rolling stock. The point end was placed inside a large split pins and a hammer was used on the other end to knock the split pins out of their holes. Sometimes the pin wouldn't come out or the head would breake off so the other end would be used as a short chizzel to cut the head and tail off the pin. Then the not or whatever the pin was located in could be removed. Hadn't see one of those in decades.

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THANKS!!!!!!! - given the tool is currently in WA, this is highly probable - thanks!!! and thanks all for your help

"flat/ chisel edge at each end"
"The point end was placed inside a large split pins"

Are both ends flat or is one end pointy?

Hi every one, in Australia we use these for steel erection. The taper end is for lining up bolt holes and the taper end for lifting and leveling. We call these tools a "Podger bar".

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Originally Posted by desbromilow

Folks,

hopefully someone might know what this tool is... forged steel, flat/ chisel edge at each end, rest of the body is round in cross section except the end at the top of the image, no markings. Ruler in the image is metric millimeters.
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Originally Posted by IntheGroove

"flat/ chisel edge at each end"
"The point end was placed inside a large split pins"

Are both ends flat or is one end pointy?

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this one has both ends chisel shaped

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Originally Posted by john 1938

Hi every one, in Australia we use these for steel erection. The taper end is for lining up bolt holes and the taper end for lifting and leveling. We call these tools a "Podger bar".

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Nope, sorry John 1938 --- NOT a Podger bar, a Podger bar has a pointy end to stick into holes, to force the two holes into alignment and normally has something like a hammer head at the other end, or sometimes a spanner. This bar in question, ----- has flats at both ends.

In 1974 I bought a large split pin selection kit., 800 pieces, 1.2mm to 6,4mm, that had 2 of those split pin Tommie bars included, 1 small and one large. I still have both, and a myriad splitpins.