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Stake puller

Stake puller on a lawn. Vertical wooden structure, metal chain, long side arm, front platform with hook. Background: vegetation, white farm building with green roof.

Donation Yvon Pelletier, collection Musée québécois de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation. Photo: Andréanne Vailles.

Object used to remove stakes installed every year for weir fishing. The metal hook was used to pull the stakes out of the ground, while the wooden arm activated the mechanism. This tool could also be used for other purposes.

This stake puller was used regularly until the 1970s.