Maybe some kind of reamer

[gibsontool]

These two are not the same but are quite similar and both came from different places. My guess is some type of tapered reamer and  the gear on the top suggests it's power driven. Any body familiar with these ?

[stanley62]

Looks like the spikes the use to hold a Christmas tree to the stand.

  Jim

[lazyassforge]

Those are cotton picker spindles!

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-65405503/stock-photo-detail-of-cotton-harvester-spindle-machine.html

Hope this helps, Bill D.

[EVILDR235]

Yes from a cotton picking machine. I saw one at the Habitat Restore several weeks ago that someone had made into a x-mas tree stand using rebar for legs.

Ho,ho,ho.

[gibsontool]

Thanks guys, living up here in northern British Columbia I have never seen a cotton plant or anything to do with harvesting the cotton. Mystery solved.

[Chillylulu]

I found one on a job (The Grand Junction Hilton) in 1983.  It was laying on the ground and I thought one of the sheetrockers had dropped it. I asked around and nobody knew who it belonged to or where it came from.  I kept it in my tool bucket for a couple of months. I used it to poke holes in cinderblock and center in sheetrock.

Every once and a while I used to find it around the garage, but I haven't seen it in years.

It is good to finally know what that almost tool looking thing was. Even 22 yrs later.

Chilly

[J.Musgrove]

They good welding hammers

[slip knot]

yep cotton picker spindles.I pick these up when I see them. They make good punches as they are extremely hard. I've never seen a bent or broken one just worn out in the threaded area out to the point.