Fireplace poker

Fireplace Pokers are used to move burning coals, flaming logs bout a fireplace. There are thre types of tools commonly used to tend a small fire, such as a campfire or yule log: the spade, the tongs and the poker. These are useful in the prevention of burns.

Large bonfires are not amenable to the use of tools of the size commonly used in a indoor fire place, however some pyromaniacs have been known to weld rebar into clever shapes with which to move about the wood fuel in a moderately large bonfire.

Fireplace pokers have theoretically been in use by humans since the paleolithic era and beyond.