Up Date on Pickaroon

Adirondack case guy

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This morning I went out to the shop to make my Pickaroon/Hookaroon, a multi-tool. It is now a felling bar also, plus I can visualize uses for it when blocking logs.
After I got the chisel looking foot welded on, I fired up the torch and heated the whole end red hot including the pick, and then stuck it into the snow out side the shop to temper it. I think it will be a very handy tool.
Also added a couple of pics of my Cant/Log lifter that I bought many years back from Northern Tool. Broke the handle this summer, but I was able to remove the wood dowel from the metal conduit handle and reinforce the handle with a piece of black iron pipe and weld everything back together. It is a supper handy tool when blocking firewood logs, along with the jib pole with winch, to pull logs out of the pile in the landings that I make.
Loren
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After yesterday's talk of logging tools I happened to see this picture I took in my mill. I took old parts and assembled this large peavy so I could roll/turn large logs by myself.
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That aluminum handle with the wooden knob on the end looks familiar. At the paper mill I retired from they used pike poles in the wood room with that same handle, I salvaged a few broken off ones to make things out of.
 
There are some very useful tools made by Peavey, others and ones you make yourself for logging/firewood, like you have posted.

I use the timber jack often, and will get a set of pulp hooks, pickeroons and bark spud to round out my firewood tools. The firewood gripper is also handy with a little practice.

Homemade, store bought or otherwise, these tools are very helpful and if one can find ways to not work off the ground, processing firewood is really not all that bad if you can work smart IMHO.
Peavey

Lockharts Firewood Gripper
 
I have watched reviews by a young guy on U -Tube from MN. He has bombarded U-Tube with video on how to make, stack and gather firewood. Much like "Wrangler Star".
I watched his review of the Log Ox that you refer to, and the price, $285 bucks is outrageous, as are the accessories. He gave it good review, but I suspect the one he reviewed was a freebe.
Cutting firewood is a cost saving venture, not a quest to buy the most expensive tools to impress everyone.
Loren
 
(quoted from post at 10:48:17 11/21/17) There are some very useful tools made by Peavey, others and ones you make yourself for logging/firewood, like you have posted.

I use the timber jack often, and will get a set of pulp hooks, pickeroons and bark spud to round out my firewood tools. The firewood gripper is also handy with a little practice.

Homemade, store bought or otherwise, these tools are very helpful and if one can find ways to not work off the ground, processing firewood is really not all that bad if you can work smart IMHO.
Peavey

Lockharts Firewood Gripper

Unless you have help all you need is one pulp hook. You don't want to sink 2 of them in a piece of firewood, you'll be forever trying to free them. Just sink it into the SIDE of a block just enough to grab and then you can lift it or move it just fine. Real handy for loading a splitter because you don't have to fart around trying to get to the bottom of a block, just tap the pulp hook in, tip it into your free hand and lift.

And why would you need a spud? That's for peeling green wood for the bark (as in tanneries back in the old days) or for logs for a log home type of thing.
 
(quoted from post at 20:38:38 11/20/17) This morning I went out to the shop to make my Pickaroon/Hookaroon, a multi-tool. It is now a felling bar also, plus I can visualize uses for it when blocking logs.
After I got the chisel looking foot welded on, I fired up the torch and heated the whole end red hot including the pick, and then stuck it into the snow out side the shop to temper it. I think it will be a very handy tool.

Loren
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Your going to carry that out into the woods with you to tip a tree? You're going to bend that handle in nothing flat. A felling lever is basically a high tensile, tempered I beam affair with a "wedge" made with a gradual taper from about 1/4" to 1/2". You insert the tip into the saw kerf and lift the tree (not a real big tree of course) over.
 
Bret; I watched several videos about using commercially built felling bars. "Oregon" has a good video of using their felling bar, plus their other forestry accessories. I can't argue tensile strength of mine, but the handle is 3/4" black iron pipe, and is only 31" inches long. You have overestimated my strength, HeHe.
I am more concerned about the tipping foot bending or breaking. As I said, I crudely tempered the whole base of the tool. I use felling wedges for big trees, but I believe this will be handy for those smaller trees, 6" or so, that I want to steer in a certain direction with a bit more force than my shoulder against them.
I can see it being handy when the saw gets pinched cutting off limbs and blocks also.
Loren
 
Hi everyone Austin Roberts, co-founder of the LogOX here. I came across this thread today and hope you don't mind if I add my thoughts to it. As someone who's been harvesting firewood in New England since he could reach the levers on a log splitter, I always enjoy reading about the tools and techniques other folks are using. I've found the "Life In Farmland" channel you're referencing, to be a great source of firewood and homestead related information. So I contacted Eric, the gentleman who runs it, and asked him if he would be willing to field test and review our product. He agreed and we sent him a free Forester Package to test, as he states up front in the video, which he put through its paces and recorded the results of for his channel. He did an excellent job with this video, and we were amazed to see it receive over 382k views in the past month.

Our standard LogOX 3-in-1 Forestry MultiTool costs $175 not $285, which is actually a pretty decent value when you consider that it incorporates 3 tools. A quality cant hook and timberjack each run over $100 a piece, and a decent pulp hook (which our Hauler is a huge improvement on) is about $30. It's also the only tool of its kind that disassembles into 3 pieces and can be carried in a 28" bag. Our tools are Made in the USA out of hollow frame American steel, rather than weaker wood or aluminum, and have a lifetime warranty.

The $285 Forester Package you're referring to includes the 3-in-1 Forestry MultiTool, a Hauler holster, and the PickOX attachment, which turns the 3-in-1 MultiTool's cant handle into a pickaroon and means you've got one less tool to cart into the woods. It also includes a heavy duty nylon, hard bottom masonry bag to carry it all in. Not only is this the most compact and versatile forestry tool of its kind, it's also a great value for the lifetime investment.

Feel free to visit our website and read our customer's reviews. I'd also be happy to answer any of your questions either here or at [email protected]

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