Tool Of The Day II

Adirondack case guy

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Tools like this one that I built today have been used in the lumber industry for years in various lengths and designs.
Many utilizing common ax handles.
What are they called. They go by two names.
Loren
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Hi, I believe that is a pickaroon. A peavey has a hinged hook and much bigger for rolling logs on deck. Ed Will OLIVER BC
 
I don't know about that tool but a Peavy is normally used in the woods or the landing to roll round logs and a cant dog is used at the mill to roll cants, cants being a log with at least 1 cut made. Peavys and cant dogs look similar but a peavy has a point and a cant dog has a blunt end squared off with small ridges.
 
To add futher...A "cant Hook" has the hinged hook like a peavy, but is blunt on the handle end, to ride against the squared timber surface of the "cant" , lowering surface damnage when turning the log, while a peavey has the pointed metal spike end to ride against the log bark before cutting it, or the point can be used for a steadying point to push along a rolling log/pry a log into place, or support when running across a pond of logs.
Hope it Helps
 
BOY; you guys are fast!!! Yes a PICKAROON
The one that I built today, with the weird handle shape was not by design, but designed around existing material that I had. Back years ago when I built the jib pole for my splitter, HF only had hard wired toggle switches to operate their $50 winches, so I fabed a L shaped handle that would shift from RH to LH side of splitter with the switch mounted to it.. Later, I upgraded to a wireless control, and removed the handle and threw it under a bench.
Today I got the bright idea to dig it out, rebend it, as best as I could, and woope: I had an ergonomic designed handle. I rotated the blade/point about 5-7 degrees from offsets in handle to make it a RH tool. Probably a South Paw will stab himself in the ankle with it. HeHe. This tool will further eliminate the bending to the ground to pick wood up, and reaching to the front of the trailers or PU, to grab a block in the front.
Loren
 
The first picture is a pickaroon, as sold by L&M, the second is a cant hook with the dog on the side, a peavy is similar to a cant hook but has a point on the end, according to Wikipedia, where I got the pictures.
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Hi, I believe that is a pickaroon. A peavey has a hinged hook and much bigger for rolling logs on deck. Ed Will OLIVER BC
 
Another name sometimes used for a pickaroon is hookaroon. As noted, a peavey and a cant hook are completely different tools--closely related to each other but having nothing in common with the use or function of a pickaroon. I've made dozens over the years--they make great friends & family gifts and can make handling wood much easier. Many years ago--in the late '30's and early '40's--the local paper mills here in far-northern NY would get a lot of their wood in by railroad, and entire train loads of pulpwood would be unloaded by nothing but a gang of big French-Canadian lumberjacks using pickaroons. Still have one of those around here--it's been re-handled several times but still works as well as it did 80 years ago. I find them especially handy when unloading firewood from a pickup truck, enabling you to reach those pesky pieces that collect in the middle of the bed and can't be reached from either the tailgate nor over the sides. I've also made several small ones that work well when used with a vertical log splitter, making it much easier to reach and set up blocks to be split.
 
I really like the look of this tool , not very common down here though .
I would like to make one myself , is weight in the head important ?
What type of steel is best / most readily available for the head ?
 
(quoted from post at 20:25:31 11/19/17) Tools like this one that I built today have been used in the lumber industry for years in various lengths and designs.
Many utilizing common ax handles.
What are they called. They go by two names.
Loren
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There used to be 2 commercial brands, one called it a pickaroon and the other called it a hookeroon. Hookeroon stuck for me.
 
(quoted from post at 04:43:25 11/20/17) I really like the look of this tool , not very common down here though .
I would like to make one myself , is weight in the head important ?
What type of steel is best / most readily available for the head ?

It doesn't need to be heavy at all. In fact, all it needs is to just sink the tip in enough to hold the wood and drag or lift it and then with a twist of the wrist it should let go. There are 2 types of these hookeroons and of pulp hooks. One uses a forged tip and the other uses a replaceable tip. The replaceable tip works far, far better than the standard round forged tip, especially on hard woods. https://www.forestershop.com/forester-new-england-pulp-hook-replacement-tip.html They fit as shown in this pulp hook- https://www.forestershop.com/new-england-pulp-hook-phk.html

Some examples- https://www.forestershop.com/hook-a-roon-pick-a-roon.html
 

This is another absolutely wonderful tool for working small to medium sized wood. When you need it, nothing else works as well. Far easier than trying to wedge a small to medium sized tree over.

https://www.forestershop.com/31-industrial-tree-felling-lever-lt031.html
 
Bret; After checking out the felling lever, it looks like all I need to do is weld a foot on the top side of the handle, opposite the point and then I will have a dual purpose tool. Thanks for the info. I will post a pic of the modification tonight.
Loren
 

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