Well you guys keep showing all these inventive ways of making a pickaroon so I thought I would give it a go. So here is my version. I used some small pieces of 2" angle iron I had laying around and bent it over in the vise to conform to the axle handle. For the spike I used a long lag bolt that I had from a power pole cross arm. I did buy the axle handle for 11 bucks.
Thanks. I sharpened it a little more since it would not stick hard wood as well. I also painted the head green. I really did not know if it would be that useful but I am finding it to work out pretty well and starting to carry it in my truck now with my other firewood tools.
Unloaded a bunch of wood out of the truck today. I believe this is the first time I did not jump up in the bed to unload. I am going to refine the point just alittle more to make it stick in the wood easier, but I am liking it so far.
I think I want to make this thing as easy as possible to use. I will be inclined to use it more that way. But you are right that is what I am doing now.
I had to swing mine pretty hard the other day to get it to stick into barkless sugar maple round, so I could drag it