Photos Peavey • Cant Hook • Cant Dog • Hook on a Stick

[Old Axeman]

I have had only three uses for short handled Peavey/cant hooks. First is on the sawmill to turn/adjust the stick on the carriage. Second is the same, turn/adjust, the stick on the hewing (broad axe) yoaks. Last is to adjust the round log, hewn log, or heavy timber in log cabin or timber frame construction/reconstruction.

 

[crbnSteeladdict]

I never see cant hooks or peavies in my neck of the woods. When I found it in the antique store my first thought was to cut extra metal parts and turn it into cant hook. Is there anything that this log jack cannot do that cant dog can?

pics taken from
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/dixie-industries-inc-peavey-log-1872150791

 

[AndreLinoge]

I never see cant hooks or peavies in my neck of the woods. When I found it in the antique store my first thought was to cut extra metal parts and turn it into cant hook. Is there anything that this log jack cannot do that cant dog can?

pics taken from
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/dixie-industries-inc-peavey-log-1872150791

For a home user, that setup is the beans. As long as you are rolling in free ground, the extra part of the head that makes the "jack" wont get in the way so much, and being able to lift a stick sure makes cutting those curvy ones easier when you're making firewood by yourself.
It does make them heavy to carry, and kind of awkward to pry between logs with, tho.

I wouldn't cut it off, just buy another one. Lol

 

[Yankee Josh]

I only have one cant dog and one pickaroon. I purchased the cant dog prior to when i started collecting axes. I've always used them primarily for rolling big logs or helping me roll a hung up tree free of the branches it's hung up on. I saved how much a paid for it for the last photo....ouch. i know now i could've found one much cheaper.

I love the swell on this pickaroon. A nice knob end. It's an old Great Northern Paper co. tool. Hence the GNP co. stamp on the haft.

This cant dog has the nicest piece of white ash i think I've ever seen. They hung it perfectly! Perfect i say!

In the end I'm glad to support Peavey. Now i can buy vintage ones just for the heck of it.

Cool thread! Take care and be safe!

 

[AndreLinoge]

Nice ash stick on that hook. I break ash too easily, the ones at work have Hickory handles. All those I haven't broken yet, anyway.

Beaver Tooth handle co has a good price on their giant handles. They had some 72" fat handles listed not so long ago, for you fellas lookin for big sticks you don't have to carve.

 

[Agent_H]

That is a pretty nice looking swell for a Peavy tool!

 

[Yankee Josh]

That is a pretty nice looking swell for a Peavy tool!

Thank you! That's the swell on the GNP co. pickaroon. It also has an ash handle and i wouldn't be surprised if it was a Peavey. Unfortunately i don't know that. It makes sense that GNP would source tools locally for their pulp mills. I don't know how many pickaroon manufactures used an aluminum wedge and riveted them in like this one. Perhaps that could help identify the maker? It does have a tempered carbon steel tip.
Also when i purchased it the light colored part of the haft was covered with electrical tape. Evidently whoever had it didn't want anyone to know it came from Great Northern Paper co. Lol . Maybe someone took it home from the mill as a "bonus".

 

[Agent_H]

Then great swell on that Pickaroon.

 

[A17]

I need to find a better background, sorry. The big Oshkosh has been really handy for side-loading logs on my atv trailer. Ooh! Random thought! Doesn't Oshkosh make army big rigs? Anyway, I never realized how much I needed a peavey till I got one. I'm working on finishing a handle for the peavey head in the next few days.
edit: I just realized I forgot the log carrier. I'll get another pic tomorrow.

 

[AndreLinoge]

I can never get a second person to beef on the log carrier at work with me.. they're all: "just get the loader, man! "... No sense of adventure... I figure, if our log buyer pays for these fence posts, its because, umm... Well, hell, you got me. But the little ones cause all sorts of problems. Lol.

 

[NapalmCheese]

It's certainly nice seeing pictures of pickaroons, hookaroons, whateveraroons, hooks on a stick. I purchased a Council hookaroon and they come unsharpened. I'd never used one before so didn't know how sharp I wanted it to be. I've been slowly making it sharper and sharper as I find it bouncing out of some woods. Looks like it's time for me to get back on the files and make it even pointier!

 

[Miller '72]

I finally got a chance to lightly clean this steel beauty cant dog today.

Billnas 1934
Fiskars Bolt at the hook

 

[Agent_H]

Hyvää työtä!

 

[Albin]

I made my own hookaroon years. I never use it.

 

[Miller '72]

Hyvää työtä!

Kiitos

(google translate)

 

[Wowbagger]

Peavey • Cant Hook • Cant Dog • Hook on a Stick

That's OK
Some times I can't dog either.
I bet you could get dog on a stick in China though.

 

[Agent_H]

That's OK
Some times I can't dog either.
I bet you could get dog on a stick in China though.

Or wherever dog is served.

 

[Agent_H]

That is a pickaroon!
Probably a knickname is in order.

It's pinned but if that same flare was towards the top, I bet it wouldn't need a pin at all.

 

[Albin]

Belt, suspenders, rope around the waist.

As a former Reliability engineer, overkill is my middle name.

 

[ithinkverydeeply]

Here is a really old cant hook from the 1800’s. Probably German.(?)