What are this?

[mmartone]

I got these from a friend of mine thinking I might be able to make them into log hook thingies (proper term).



 

[Peter Drouin]

Straps for a ramp truck, to hold the car down 

[mmartone]

Yup....

[clww]

That's it.

[RayMO]

Very good tempered steel and should work for end hooking logs if properly sharpened.

[Magicman]

The main problems are the limited amount of throat that the hooks have and the thinness of the hooks.  With heavy logs, tearout would be a concern.  Hooks with deeper throats allow for hooking more toward the center of the log.

[clww]

MM-What about if some of the bend in the "U" was removed, then re-welded back together?

[Magicman]

The possibilities are there, it's that I am not a "metal person" to talk about tempering, etc. 

Where is "gspren" when we need him?

[jcbrotz]

I think you would be much better off to cut them off at the 110 deg mark or so and sharpen there than try welding the back together.

[bandmiller2]

Before I did anything radical I would sharpen them and try them on some logs. For years before I bought logging tongs I used a similar setup only a little smaller It worked OK. Frank C.