i've always called those pike poles.
don't really know where that name came from.
Pole pikes have a spike on the end of them that you stuck in the side of a pole to move it and hold it straight until you get it tamped in. Most all trucks have pole claws to hold the poles now but you can't always use the truck and when using a crane we use them to push the pole against the side of the boom so you can use the crane to straighten the pole.
https://www.hubbell.com/hubbellpowe...t-Assist-Tool/Pike-Pole-2-X-18/p/1648788 back when i was a volunteer fireman [i finally remembered/cleared the cobwebs from the back of the old/tired memory bank
] a "few" days ago, we used a multi pronged tip like was originally shown [with wooden handle of course] to poke and rip/pull/push burning walls and other obstacles/debris. we called those pike poles at the time.
they did not have a single pointed tip as shown in the last posted pic, so we may have been calling them the wrong name.
they definitely looked like the lineman tip.
