Hopefully someone can help me out. In the past campinspecter posted something about a spike that he hammers into a log and lifts it up the the splitter. It was originally used while floating timber down a river? Does anyone remember this thread or the link to the website that sold them? Any help would be appreciated.
That didn’t take long! What’s the intended use? Rafting logs or pulling them up on the splitter like campinspecter does?
I was thinking of a three point hitch boom for the tractor. A buddy has one and I could use a chain with a rafting dog with it. Lower it and attach a large round then lift it up and take it to the splitting area. I’m dealing with some large Ash rounds and some mild slopes.
I have a bad back and try to do whatever I can to make things easier whilst bucking and splitting firewood. Not sure what tool you are referring to, but I am really enjoying using the Fiskars hookaroon to left logs up to the splitter. It is great to drag logs around, but also to lift them up to splitter. Just smack the tip in the end of a log lift with both hands on the handle. It surprisingly works with heaver rounds. I was lifting 20" hickory rounds without them falling off. Of course I only do this with steel toes on in case one were to fall off.
Yep, used in rafting logs, is where I have seen them used I grew up on the Columbia River in Oregon, North East of Portland, my parents had a Boathouse, moored not far down river from a Log Dump/Rafting operation. The old man, had a small bucket of Log Dogs, Dayumed Handy little things they are. There are a couple of Pile Wingdams, just below the Dump, that would often catch some real nice strays from the log dump, we used to go scout the wingdams for strays, we got a Lot of Good Firewood that way, mainly Doug Fir. Just ease up next to a nice log or two, drive a dog into each, tie on, and feed out enough line to be able to maneuver the boat without getting fouled on other debris, then it was only a bit over half a mile back to the moorage, there was always somewhere to tie off some logs until we got around to skidding them up the boat ramp, and cutting them up and hauling them home. We skidded with a 68 Ford Wagon with a 390 and a tow package, if we had some Really Big logs, Dickey would bring his early 70’s Chevy Wrecker for the weekend, hoist the Butt end off the ground, and there wasn’t anything that old wrecker couldn’t drag out of the river I couldn’t even guess how many cords we pulled out of that river, Good Times, the 70’s and 80’s were Fun Times to grow up in, got away with all kinds of Schitt, you wouldn’t think of doing now Doug
