Looks Like Ice Pic?

[cozyville]

This has a long wood handle almost 5', the end has a peice that looks like a pic type item , it says jacion (that's what it looks like it is a little wore off).  I have looked under ice pic, railroad items, and log items.  Does anyone know what it is?

[cogar]

Now I guess it could be an "ice hook".

Check the pictures out on this site, see what you think.

http://www.genealogy.clifflamere.com/Aid/History/IceHarvesting.htm

[railman44]

My guess, and only a guess, is it's railroad in nature.  Men atop the refrigeration cars would guide the huge ice chunks with these "ice hooks" into the hatches from the ice shutes.  When full of ice they would close and latch the hatches. 

[KC]

Okay....here's another twist....when I was growing up and went to cattle auctions with relatives (they didn't have electric cattle prods then ) they had prods on long wooden handles that resembled this to move the cattle through the chutes - the handles had to be long enough because the workers were on elevated walkways above the cattle.