Team LogRite

Tam-i-am · August 25, 2004, 09:41:38 PM

Kevin had a chance to see the team we sponsor compete at NYS Woodsmen Field Days in Boonville, NY.

Tate Connor and Matt Galambos make up the team.

Check out the cool modification Kevin had to make to the peavey!

Tate's girlfriend, Virginia Foote, also competes and uses the LogRite tool.

Here they are competing.

sandmar · August 25, 2004, 10:07:39 PM

OK Tamiam,
I admit to being the greenest of green horns on this forum..but wouldn't these guys make more progress if'n they was both rolling on the same side of the log? ;D Maybe I need to know more about this contest? Excuse my ignorance :

Sandmar

sprucebunny · August 26, 2004, 05:02:11 AM

It's a little hard to see but it looks like the peavey has an extra long and curved point. Does that make it a Pant hook? ;D

ccicora · August 26, 2004, 07:13:08 PM

I rolled that log. I was the last team to roll the log. Let's say that if that log turned corners any better you could olval race it. What the guys are trying to do in that pic. is to aim the log towards the stakes. Too bad it was a roll and drag log both ways.
Later,
Chris

sandmar · August 26, 2004, 07:20:22 PM

oh DanG stihlman...now I am really confused....having never been to one of these contests....you telling me you were moving one end in a circle? Do you pick it up to move it? I am used to moving logs with my JD450C cant hook so not sure about the manual tricks..but always willing to learn......sorry for my stupidity.

Sandmar

Tam-i-am · August 26, 2004, 08:11:41 PM

Sandmar

I didn't get to see the contest and I asked the same question. Maybe someone can explain it to both of us.

Tammy

beenthere · August 26, 2004, 08:49:48 PM

If it's anything like the Forestry Conclave I was involved in back in the late 50's, the 'log rolling' involves turning a log's direction 90 degrees (or 180), which can take on different 'cant hook' or 'peavy' moves. One technique was lifting one end of the log with both 'tools' as pictured, and carrying it around. Another was sticking the peavy into the ground as a pivot, while the other team member rolled one end of the log to turn it. The 'carry' technique appears in the picture where it just 'looks' like each person is trying to 'roll' the log towards the other.

I may be far off here, but it is what we 'used' to do, if the memory is correct.

Tom · August 26, 2004, 08:53:13 PM

If that is the chore, I would have thrown one of the handles down in front of the log at the middle and used the other to roll the log up onto it. A swift kick will send the log spinning.'

It does look like they are picking the log up. I don't have that kind of gumption any more. :D

sandmar · August 26, 2004, 08:55:44 PM

Thanks beenthere..makes much more sense now. I first thought these guys needed a seminar in working together ;)

Sandmar

ccicora · September 06, 2004, 07:10:32 PM

Well I rolled with Tate in Andies, NY. I took the small end and he feneced the rest of the Hemlock log. We did preaty good and ended up with 2nd place in the roll.
And yes I like the peavey with the smaller dia. handle. We lined them up and it just about matches my comp peavey perfect. The only difference is my dragon teeth shape and I run a straight point in the end.
We also crosscutted together for a 4th place.
I still think he needs a preaty shirt to go with the preaty peavey.

Later,
Chris

moosehunter · September 08, 2004, 05:37:58 AM

This is how the compitition ( jill's is what I saw) was run.
The log looks like it is twelve feet long. It rest against two stakes driven into the ground about ten feet apart. When given the start signal two folks roll the log about 25 feet in a straight line to two other stakes driven in the ground, also ten feet apart. The team cannot turn and start back untill the log touches both stakes. Most of us already know that logs, being naturaly tapered, do not roll in a straight line! That is when one team member gets on each side of the log with thier cant hook and slides it over to hit the stake that they missed.
Moosehunter

sandmar · September 08, 2004, 11:38:46 AM

Thanks Moosehunter!
That clears things up for me. This would definitely be a spectator sport for me :-/ Would love to watch sometime though,wonder if they have anything like this in the south?

Sandmar