According to Joe Barta :
Wood Butcher wrote:

The shaft doesn't appear robust enough to transmit the torque
required for an ice auger. I'm inclined to agree with the earth
auger hypothesis.


It's an earth auger ANCHOR...

http://images.google.com/images?q=earth+auger+anchor

Slip a rod into the hole, crank it into the ground, remove the rod and
anchor something down to it... like a tent.

Look at the eyes on the ones which your link leads to, and
compare it to the one on the puzzle photo. That puzzle photo one is
*only* designed to accept a wooden rod as a T-handle, not to serve as a
tie-down eye.

I still say post-hole digger.

Enjoy,
DoN.


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