cant hook advice

[paul case]

Or how about these.

the reason i like the cant hook on the left so well is the cant hook on the right.  pc

[caveman]

Thank you to all who posted their opinions.  I will buy a 60" logrite and make a replacement handle for the one with the wooden handle that I broke.  The one that I broke really does grab well and the handle was not rotten so I will make another handle-I like wooden handled tools but may follow Magic Man's advise and use steel tube.  Most likely, I will make a short handle, 24"-36". Someone asked if our LT 28 has a log turner.  Its log turner is the canthook, which is fine for the limited amount of sawing we do.  If we sawed more or had intentions of ever being profitable, we would have more gizmos to make our operation more efficient.  Caveman

[WDH]

You will love it.

[backwoods sawyer]

I keep wooden 4' cant hook on the forklift, and another hanging around. I find the two 5'+ Pee Vees that I carry in the truck are my work horses. One grabs real well and the other so-so. The wood handle has taken on a curve and is showing its ware. So I ordered a pair of the 60" heavy Logrite Pee Vees. When the Logrites arrived the first thing I noted was that they weighed more than the old wooden ones. I have only tested them on Maple, Alder, Myrtle wood and a small Redwood and they seem to grab as well as my best Wooden handled Pee Vee. I am looking forward to many good years out of them.

[tyb525]

I first got a northern toolhttps://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=position"> Note:Please read the Forestry Forum's postion on this company 4' cant hook with a fiberglass handle. It's pretty heavy.

I bought a 4' Logrite cant hook earlier this year, and I was surprised to find it is even heavier than the knock off from northern toolhttps://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=position"> Note:Please read the Forestry Forum's postion on this company. The handle is also pretty big in diameter, and it took some getting used to.

Despite those two things, it is miles better than the chinese knock off, and it only takes one use to tell how high the quality is.

[Meadows Miller]

You will love it.

X 2  In 18 years of sawmilling log building and logging they are the best ones out there you can get and I have used alot of different brands from all over the world  All my hand tools in the future will be Log Rites  ;) ;D 8)

Regards Chris

[millwright]

I recently got a 48 inch logrite cant hook and I havent used the old wood ones since, it works great.

[nlrwrangler]

I bought a Stihl and I believe that it is made by Logrite but has the Stihl name on it.  Does anyone know if this is correct?

[mad murdock]

Thank you to all who posted their opinions.  I will buy a 60" logrite and make a replacement handle for the one with the wooden handle that I broke.  The one that I broke really does grab well and the handle was not rotten so I will make another handle-I like wooden handled tools but may follow Magic Man's advise and use steel tube.  Most likely, I will make a short handle, 24"-36".   Caveman

Caveman, the steel Magic is referring to is 4130 Chrome-moly tubing.  I would get a piece the dia. you need, with .063" wall thickness.  That should be strong enough for a couple of elephants, but light enough to throw around with one hand.

[carykong]

I can only relate to my forum bros that my 5' logrite aluminum handle slowly failed over a period of about 120 days. Yes,the hook worked great and engaged the log just fine. However,once I developed a small bend in the handle,the bend slowly increased with use. I used the hook for routine log turning on my mizer. I weight about 200lbs and was about 59 years old of normal fitness at the time the hook failed. Never abused the hook. Of course, to get  some logs turning ya really have to hang on the handle but I would not call my technique abuse. Just normal pulling. Anyway, we all make our choices and my homemade 6' hickory cant hook is the bomb.

[Brucer]

I bought a Stihl and I believe that it is made by Logrite but has the Stihl name on it.  Does anyone know if this is correct?

Yep, it's correct.

[paul case]

carykong,
if my logrite ever failed i would be certian to call them and i would imagine they would make it right.
it is impossible for every defect to be seen with the human eye.
pc

[Jeff]

I'm wondering if he bought his canthook somewhere else than logrite and it was a knock off.  His description of what happened goes against everything I KNOW about the tools. There is absolutely no way those tools will develop a bend as he describes. Something is missing from the equation that he is not seeing. I am absolutely not saying he isn't telling us how he sees it, but I'm saying that whatever caused the event to occur is an answerable anomaly.

[carykong]

Jeff,

I bought my aluminum handle cant hook from woodmizer and woodmizer refunded me,no questions asked,minus shipping charges. I do remember asking the mizer tech if the bent handle syndrom had a history. The mizer tech replied in the negative.

[Dan_Shade]

anything mechanical can break, and in manufacturing, there can be inconsistancies due to tolerance or material treatments/handling.  If it bent under normal use, I would suspect a heat treating/material issue of the aluminum.

All companies (and people) make mistakes or have problems, it's how they react when one occurs that counts.  Carykong, it sounds like Woodmizer did you right in your experience.

[paul case]

well,
i routinely put all of my 300 lb grunt on my logrite cant hook and it has no give in the handle or hook whatsoever.

oh and btw my logrite happens to be ez boardwalk blue.  ;D pc

[Brucer]

Well, the handle on my 60" Logrite peavey/cant-hook bent within a few months of me buying it. More acccurately, it "was bent" by one of my customer's employees. He was trying to roll a 30" diameter, 16' Douglas-Fir log that was sitting on top of two other logs. I spotted him with the Peavey anchored in the log and the handle horizontal. He was hanging from the end with this hands and had his feet wrapped around the handle -- and he was bouncing. I put a stop to that and then asked him what he thought would happen if the log actually rolled up off those other logs.

"I dunno," he said, "I guess I'd fall on my back." Yeah, right, and the peavey would fall on top of him and then the log would land on the peavey.

I didn't notice the bent handle until later. This was for sure the real thing -- I bought it from Logrite's agent in Canada. Ryan only weighed about 160 pounds, but I don't know how long he was bouncing on the thing. I never asked Logrite to replace it because I don't figure their guarantee was meant to cover abuse.

[Magicman]

This is gonna be interesting.  My new 60" cant hook gets it's first look at logs tomorrow.   ;D

[Kansas]

I didn't even know they were aluminum. When I was picking up a mill at Woodmizer 3 1/2 years ago I picked up a 5 ft one. We don't use it a lot, but it does come in handy. Does fine. However, anything can fail, even if its only one in a million. We had two E25 motors on our Woodmizer fail, both under warranty. Probably the only owner in the country that had that happen.

Never knew aluminum was orange.

[Dan_Shade]

yep, and some folks could bust up an anvil with a rubber mallet   :D

A friend of mine's stepdad used to whip that one out....  good times, good times....

[buildthisfixthat]

try  " n" 

bend this peavy handle

[WDH]

That is one of those "invisible handle" models  :D.

[paul case]

that one is even lighter than aluminium!

yep, and some folks could bust up an anvil with a rubber mallet   :D

A friend of mine's stepdad used to whip that one out....  good times, good times....

try this one.
you could tear up a crowbar in a sandbox! pc

[mad murdock]

I am SURE the Logrite tools are the best as can be expected, and they have a longstanding reputation of quality in what they make, with an equally longstanding reputation for standing behind what they sell.  That said, metal is metal, and even with quality aluminium, once in a while you will get a defective piece.  The only way to ferret it out is to have a QC program akin to what we use in the aircraft/aviation bizz.  You have to NDT every piece after assembly/manufacture, and have tight as a drum control over material from start to finish, with Certifications from point of manufacture of raw materials, certifying the purity of the raw materials as ordered, and controls over every step of the production process, which probably are more than what even a company like Logrite can do in a cost effective manner, without raising the price of the end product a bunch.  In the end, it is like someone stated, mechanical things fail, you cannot guarantee everything all the time will be trouble free, just not the way this world is.
That is why a good company (like logrite), is quick to replace a one in a million failed piece, no questions asked, IMO.

[Magicman]

My new 60" Logrite cant hook hooked this 32" Pecan log quite nicely.   



It now wears a band of orange reflective tape.