Cant Hook

[Jonny]

The peavey is handy in the wood pile after heavy ice storm or a couple feet of snow followed by a thaw and freeze again. Usually a cant hook or a swift kick will suffice, but if there’s really heavy ice, you can’t beat a big, heavy, blunt spike.

I wasted money on a felling bar in the hopes that it’d roll logs like a peavey, but it’s too small. It’s an ok pry bar I guess.

 

[Merle Nelson]

I bought one of those 48" long because I could have it in a box on the truck all the time. It fills aforementioned duties on modest logs and works as a pry lever on big wood rounds. I have yet to see if it will ever pay its way as a felling lever as one Euro feller raves about it.

 

[evo]

As I understand it, cant hooks, with the flattened tip were used for timber management in millyards while peaveys, with the sharp pointy tips, helped to dig into the forest floor for log rolling. That's what I recall from encounters with more traditional foresters.

Yes, a Cant Hook does have a flat or blunt tip but regularly has some sort of steel grips on the flat tip coming off 90 degrees. They are used for rolling or flipping cants Aka a squared up log in the milling process. Also they typically have shorter handles.
Peevy's have a sharp steel spike coming out of the end of the pole, this is used to pry logs apart, as a pike pole, or other mill pond applications.
Both tools roll round logs. However, peevy's don't tend to roll cants as efficiently as cant hooks.

 

[evo]

I mean ... By the time you're pushing hard enough to break the wooden ones you won't be rolling a log that big

I have pushed with two guys on the Peaveys until some fibers snapped... Largely unnecessary and ineffective tool though

I use mine way more often than my arbor trolly. Infact, about as frequently as I use my mini.

 

[oldoakman]

If you don't care which you have PV's have the additional advantage to be able to just stab them into the ground and they will stand up.

This company has aluminum handled PVs and cant hooks as well as a fiberglass offering I have not seen before. They have a 72" version that is nice on big logs.

Log Peaveys

LogRite Tools Log Peaveys

logrite.com

They're great until you stab an irrigation line.

 

[Tony]

Rural Heritage - Cant Hook or Peavey?

rural heritage - cant hook or peavey?

www.ruralheritage.com

A good accounting here

about the smallest version I have found to be useful is the logox.

LogOX 3-in-1 Forestry MultiTool

LogOX Hauler, cant hook, and timberjack all in 1: Easily lift, roll, & cut logs. Reduce back strain by 93%. Perfect for firewood and tree work. Made in the USA.

www.thelogox.com

Good tool when splitting wood for the stove or managing smallish debris when working in the woods. I use the pulp hook constantly when splitting wood.

Tony

 

[GregManning]

Rural Heritage - Cant Hook or Peavey?

rural heritage - cant hook or peavey?

www.ruralheritage.com

A good accounting here

about the smallest version I have found to be useful is the logox.

LogOX 3-in-1 Forestry MultiTool

LogOX Hauler, cant hook, and timberjack all in 1: Easily lift, roll, & cut logs. Reduce back strain by 93%. Perfect for firewood and tree work. Made in the USA.

www.thelogox.com

Good tool when splitting wood for the stove or managing smallish debris when working in the woods. I use the pulp hook constantly when splitting wood.

Tony

@Tony What's a pulp hook ?

 

[flushcut]

I will add a Pickaroon is the best tool to have while splitting firewood with a hydro splitter if you don't have a lift on your splitter.
Usually I'll take a log drill into it with the Atom Splitter to halve or quarter a log. Then I'll saw the splits into chunks of manageable size, Then push the chunks into stabbing distance with the pickaroon and lift them up on the deck. No bending and very efficient. Peavy Manufacturing FTW!
Fixed it.

 

[colb]

Peavy Manufacturing WTF!

Ftw?...

 

[colb]

How on earth are you guys using these tools? I feel I need one about once every two years. Can't you just saw shit up and move it with machinery? Is this just for operations that mill wood on site? They don't pick the wood up and put it on the arb trolley, do they? What's the big deal?

 

[Jehinten]

How on earth are you guys using these tools? I feel I need one about once every two years. Can't you just saw shit up and move it with machinery? Is this just for operations that mill wood on site? They don't pick the wood up and put it on the arb trolley, do they? What's the big deal?

Not as much now, but I used to load logs onto a flatbed (no dump) and the cant hook was my preferred way of rolling off bigger wood.

Now it sits in the truck for the occasional wet day that we are working near pavement but the log is just a little too far in the wet yard.

 

[Tony]

@Tony What's a pulp hook ?

Greg,


pulp hook to the right pickaroon left. I kinda use them interchangeably

Tony

 

[flushcut]

Ftw?...

That would be my dyslexia kicking in.

 

[GregManning]

Greg,

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pulp hook to the right pickaroon left. I kinda use them interchangeably

Tony

@Tony That particular pulp hooks very lite weight to be swung & stick into hardwood ?
Comment ?

 

[Serf Life]

The three are Peaveys not cant hooks. The difference is that the Peavey has a pointed tip, cant hook has a blunt end with a ring/hook nose.

Many people use the terms interchangeably.

You are correct, was sharing examples of Peavy manufacturing. Folks get it backwards both ways. I’m not a fan of cant hooks as I like the point for pushing a rolling log. If there are two points like the end of a fish hook it is a “racing peavy” to have more contact as one rolls a log more distance.

 

[Serf Life]

Don’t forget the ‘ol “buddy fucker”

 

[flushcut]

No need for that torture device.

 

[Tony]

@Tony That particular pulp hooks very lite weight to be swung & stick into hardwood ?
Comment ?

Greg,

Yes, it is cheap one. I had one for years, that the handle was perpendicular to the current one. I found it much more comfortable to use to fling firewood out of a truck bed. I switch to the pulp hook when pieces get out of reach. I think the biggest thing for me is the grip stays consistent and good on the handle. Not always the case when you are just snatching wood by hand.

I use either to stand rounds on end for splitting, tossing split pieces off the wood splitter tray etc. Like a good set of gaffs, keep the hooks sharp and at the right angle and it will grab until you change the angle with a flick of the wrist.

Tony

 

[evo]

How on earth are you guys using these tools? I feel I need one about once every two years. Can't you just saw shit up and move it with machinery? Is this just for operations that mill wood on site? They don't pick the wood up and put it on the arb trolley, do they? What's the big deal?

Shit man... anytime a saw bigger than 20” is to be used the peavey comes too... works great at a pry bar too, mine lives next to the chipper tongue, slightly off as just lever it on the ball.
Use it to pull t posts,
Any time bucking wood, cut 2/3rd on cratered logs, then roll.
Moving stump cuts off the stump.
Skids for rolling logs down hill
Lay it down 90 degrees to the center of a log, roll the log onto the peavy, then spin the log whatever direction you want it to roll
And much more..

 

[colb]

Shit man... anytime a saw bigger than 20” is to be used the peavey comes too... works great at a pry bar too, mine lives next to the chipper tongue, slightly off as just lever it on the ball.
Use it to pull t posts,
Any time bucking wood, cut 2/3rd on cratered logs, then roll.
Moving stump cuts off the stump.
Skids for rolling logs down hill
Lay it down 90 degrees to the center of a log, roll the log onto the peavy, then spin the log whatever direction you want it to roll
And much more..

In receipt, lol. Sounds useful. Maybe I'll add one to the tool rack on my bin...