Hey all! If the title suggests it should be moved, moderators do your thing. I’m conflicted with exactly where to put it. Yesterday, my Crew headed out to my aunts for some firewood cutting and seedling exchange so I was able to test out the new LogOx. This was nice to use in getting the logs out of the brush pile. Works very well when working on uneven ground and pulling large rounds up difficult terrain. I had the mask on because my aunt works in a COVID shelter and all of us took that precaution pretty seriously as you can see but all in all a bit of a good time having rained in the morning and dried out enough by afternoon. Some saw pictures here to show the PPE Safety was used as well. Any others willing to post their LogOx experiences? It’s a great product to use with those wanting to get their wood out of spaces in a pile or drag it out to an easier location for cutting. Lifting logs while getting my hands and arms all busted up was the norm. Exactly what I needed to get a handle on that problem.
I dont have any video of it in use, but it sure is a handy tool. I bought the forrester set early last year and used it quite a bit. I ended ordering another log carrier and pickaroon early this year. Having one on each side makes it even better. Everytime i break them out people always ask what they are and if they can try them out. Even had a guy drive by, stop, back up and ask about them. Definitely a back saver.
I like the LogOx. The trick is to not pick up very large logs out of your ballpark with it bc that can mess up the back pretty easily in my experience.
I got one for Christmas a couple years ago from my kids. It's been a good tool, well built for sure. Not quite enough for the big stuff, but very handy for 20" & under. No complaints.
I bought one last year, posted in another thread about it, tried to sell it because I don't feel that it's useful enough for the way I work with firewood. But, this year I am going to give it another chance and see if it will be better. I've tried a lot of different firewood handling tools and I always keep coming back to an old-school pulp hook.
The above comments saying it’s best on small diameter logs is true. In this situation I was taking out light logs, top was dying it looks like. So nothing was far over a foot in diameter. I did try on large logs but not for picking up. Drag them!
Always nice to have tools to help with wooding. It was nice of you to let your crewmember wear your boots.
There are several who like the log ox. Several more that like these. I think they are worth their weight in gold. lol
Mike, I don't remember for sure but did I have these when we met for the gtg at Brian's? If so, did you use them then?
Log tongs. There are several on the market but of all I and many others have found, Husqarna makes the best one. They make 2 sizes but I would not recommend the small ones as those are really small. The others I can pick up 3-4" on up to 30" pieces. For dragging out the long logs rather than picking up one end and pulling, put the tongs near the end and pull and it takes about half the effort of just using your hands and arm.
I dont go cutting without mine. I have both the large and small. Amazing how much they save on your back and a guy can pull a pretty decent size log, too. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk
Dennis, I don't recall any log tongs being at Brian's gtg. I got mine with some gift money when I bought my Labonville chaps. The tongs were hanging on a wall. I had heard about how useful they are, so off the wall they came. I've also come to like the Fiskars pickeroon I got for this past Xmas. It's been useful in rolling rounds around the yard, as well as the extra reach when pulling rounds off a pile.
I would like to use those. Again I got this as a Xmas gift so I would feel better knowing I used it than letting it sit collecting dust. Those would work great just double handing rounds, while I had logs for this one. But to each own..
Backwoods Savage is showing a picture of what I have. In fact have 6 or 8 of them now as the grandkids like using them and if I expect them to work, I'll buy the tools. We keep them in gloves and hats as we buy them in large quantities so there are always dry and clean ones for them. My back appreciates the log tongs as I can haul two pieces of wood easier than I can one without. Don't have to stoop so low and just easy to use. My maternal grandparents had an ice house at their gas station (before I was born they sold the station) and when I showed these to mom and dad a couple of years ago first thing my mom said was they were very much like the ice tongs in the icehouse. Mechanical advantage. Working smarter not harder!
I appreciate working with the same sentiment since we should all strive to handle our wood less from the time we get it to the time we burn it. Unfortunately some of us split and stack during the warmer parts of the year as our winters are less severe. Warming us several times before we actually burn it. At least this year was a big ol goose egg for snow in places. I live in Bremerton but it snowed well over a foot here in all winter whereas Tacoma not much difference in distance got hardly more than a few inches. More icy than snow. Bremerton hangs in the Mountain shadow so it came off the Olympics and drifted down while a few miles away it warmed up too much. Either way still going to put up a very reasonable amount of ready to burn wood for this years start and I’m learning every year is different but to be more and more prepared anyways as wood supply here needs a shed but it cannot simply stay in an overhang, it must be in a spot that is protected from the rain and wind, or else the hard work is gone and you’re left with moldy wood because circulating air is just as warm and wet, breeding the mold. Don’t wish to send this one off topic but whatever tools we use to get this one ready along with the next year, and the year after that, make sure they do the work for you not against you!
