Peavie or Cant Hook?

[Dan_Shade]

My inventory- Logrite:
                   2- 30" Hookaroons
                   2- 24" mill specials
                   2- 30" mill specials
                   1- 36" Cant hook
                   1- 48" Cant hook, man I love these Quality tools & I ain't done yet


                  8) 8) 8)...Dave

Another club member!

My collection is:

2 - ASS cant hooks (this is the 78" cant hook)
1 - 60" Cant Hook
1 - 60" Peavey
1 - 48" cant hook
1 - 36" hookaroon
1 - logrite log scale


I used to use a bunch of old junker cant hooks that I bought off of ebay, and made handles for them.  I also had a big hook made by my grandfather.  One day while doing an urban logging job with a fellow FF member, I used one of his LOGRITE Cant hooks.  I've never looked back.

I like the peavey when rolling logs on the ground.  mainly for the reason that I can stab it in the ground and it will stand up.  That way I don't have to bend down to pick it up.

[sigidi]

Down under we don't tend to have much in the way of a peavey, just cant hooks.

I'm not sure how an aluminium hook would go - I haven't tried a logrite hook, but recently did this to my steel cant hook...



the handle was 2" steel pipe with 1/8" wall and I bent her by using it on my shoulder and standing up when the log didn't wanna move ;D so although I haven't used a Logrite hook, I do have reservations as to how effective it would be on some of the logs I have to move from time to time...

[amberwood]

Alan...you just try and bend one. We have just started supplying Melbourne Metro Fire with 60"cant hooks for fire/storm damage road clearing. The ultimate large bloke meets large log test. A 150kg firey bouncing on the end of a Logrite Cant hook. It only drives the hook in deeper. It helped that he was on the end of a chocked 4ton Messmate log. That was not going to move.

We can ship ex Melbourne with NQXpress.

DTR

[ErikC]

 I had a steel pipe in a peavy after a handle broke, it bent and I am a lot smaller than Alan, (5'11 170 lbs). I think logrite has a whole different thing going on with their metal handles than an old scrap of 1 1/2 inch water pipe.

[Magicman]

There are better tools for rolling heavy logs.....End Tongs....



Two different sizes.



Using end tongs to roll heavy logs

[sigidi]

Alan...you just try and bend one. We have just started supplying Melbourne Metro Fire with 60"cant hooks for fire/storm damage road clearing. The ultimate large bloke meets large log test. A 150kg firey bouncing on the end of a Logrite Cant hook. It only drives the hook in deeper. It helped that he was on the end of a chocked 4ton Messmate log. That was not going to move.

We can ship ex Melbourne with NQXpress.

DTR

DTR, I don't hang off 'em, I stand up underneath 'em, that way I get a lot more behind the hook than my 120kg (264 lb) bodyweight ever could hanging off 'em. I'm pressing 150kg (330lb) on my bad leg in single leg press, mind you it's only my 5th workout after a 10 year hiatus ;D but if you don't mind you send me price and delivery details via email so I can take a look (QLD 4570) I'd give one a go if you where confident on a warranty against 'human' bending. After all I do like blue, even considering asking Lucas to make me a blue mill one day.... ya never know 8)

[terrifictimbersllc]

MM Where'd you get the end tong? Bust apart a regular tong set?

[Magicman]

MM Where'd you get the end tong? Bust apart a regular tong set? 

Matter of fact, two broken sets.  See where I cut it off just above the pivot point, and used the eye.



This is the broken set that the larger one came from.  You can see that the top tong was broken.