Nice locally manufactured pickaroon

That guys has a GREAT idea!! I love it! A pickaroon with a small axe/hatchet on the other side of it. Actually, I'd like to get a SHORT handle pickaroon, with the hatchet on the other side of the pick. That would be great to pick up round and place on splitter, and break/cut strings and small branches off splits to separate them after run thru splitter.... Anyone want to make one for me?

 

The Council Tool unit has pretty mediocre reviews on Amazon. I wonder about the long "beak" on the Helko pick, and how well it would stick into a round when swung. The "beak" part seems longer than Peavey picks, and much longer than the Hipps Tool pickaroon.

 

When it comes to picking up rounds I think you would like pulp hooks much better than a hatchetaroon. At least that's what I prefer. They obviously lack the blade for cutting strings but you can yank apart pieces with them.

 

Peavey makes one of these. See: Peavey Manufacturing Company - 18" Katahdin Pickeroon w/Brush Cutter

 

If money is no object, this one looks nice. Expensive though. See the 3rd one down:

Sappies @ OCHSENKOPF

 

What's a "Pulp hook" (I will try google but....)?

Hmmmm.... that is pretty cool, but I don't like the axe side, that is a really small blade. You would need to be perfect with your aim to get that little (1" wide?) blade to hit the string....

Those do look nice, but it also looks a bit scary, a lot of sharp edges.... hmmmmm....

 

I assume you found pics of pulp hooks pretty easily. Not all that many years ago all pulp wood was handled by hand, in 4' bolts. With a pulp hook, a right-handed person grabs and pulls the bolt/log off a pile, with your left hand cradled under the log, and then with the hook on the right end of the log you can more easily toss the log up onto a truck (or pile). I'm pretty sure the origin of the cord as a measure is related to 4' pulp wood stacked 4' high (and not 3 rows of 16" firewood).

Back in the 70's, my Dad bought close to 100 cord from a logger working a few miles from home. We would go each evening with the 68 Chevy step-side 1/2 ton (and pulp hooks) and load it up to the top of the side rails. The logger was using a cable skidder, and would cut all the firewood into 4' lengths and stack them in long rows. We would unload into long stacks, also 4' high - a comfortable height when working from the ground.

 

Here you go.

Pulp Hook | Pulp Hooks | Log Handling Tools | www.baileysonline.com

One swing and your round has a handle. With heavier rounds you can use 2 hooks. If you look at others hooks the only real difference is the point. The baileys hooks come with a barbed point, others don't. They perform differently. Sometimes the barbs are a nuisance, other times you need the barb to get it to hold.

 

Here's a pic of one in action, in this case in his left hand...

 

You guys MUST stop telling me about new tools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your killing me, I have no room left in my shed!!

 

Resurrecting this to see how the hipps is holding up.

 

I just used mine to unload 2 cord of seasoned firewood off my brother TurboDiesel 's big trailer. I couldn't have done it without it because I wouldn't climb up on that big trailer since strokes screwed up my balance. It has held up great, though it now has an outdoors "patina" from being left outside in the rain too many times.

 

BrianK thank you very much. My straight handle home made one is not quite cutting it.

 

I really like that design:

 

That is pretty slick looking.

 

Ya I still see me driving that into my knee or maybe my leg...Sooo I will not get one...Ever...

 

C'mpn milleo... you're a Mainah. Stick it in yer foot a couple times and you'll learn not to do that in no time...

 

Caught myself on the edge of my knee with a sighth...Spelling? once when I was about 8 years old...Once burnt twice shy...

 

Well... leave the scythe in the bahn and git yerself a pair of catchers' shin guards...