
That looks like a cast iron butt slug braized onto a shaft that would bend faster than the entire staff of "All Things Considered" with a drunk Nobel laureate on set.
I am a damn pervert when it comes to cutlery, and if I am to send a harpoon to the high desert I will be SURE that it could take a scooter riding land cetacean and drag something the mass of your old cherokee behind.