Saw it as being something handy to have around the wood pile. Price of a new one was a little more than I was willing to spend on the hap chance I would like, or use it. So I had a piece of old antenna pole laying around. Cut it to 4' long. Inserted about a 6" piece of heavy wall aluminum in the end for a little weight. Used a 7/16" bole that was 5" long that I ground to a point for the pick. Painted it, and called it done. Works good. Going to use it as is for while, but may cut it down to 3" overall length.
Jeez, you may want to consider making a few more and selling them. Just looking at it from here, it looks professionally made. Very nice
HD you are the one that gave me the inspiration to make my own. I saw a picture of it posted somewhere before and decided to do it.
Some others I saw inspired me, along with the price of buying one Among other things they make unloading a trailer of rounds much easier
Yeah, I was digging rounds out of the back of my truck a while back. After climbing up in it a few time to get the ones in the back I knew it was time to make one.
Makes me want to paint mine Simple one Cement nail in an old wheelbarrow handle, put in the nail, then a dowel in the bolt hole to hold it in.
I decided tomake my own pickeroon I had a old axe handle that was broke and a used lawnmower blade.Wanted a hatchet end for one side to use take little braches off while loading in the field.I thought of putting a couple welds on to protect the handle from any splitting I might do. It still is a little rough I'am going to grind the welds off and file it up to get rid of rough edges but it works great.I got to use it the other day whil in the woods.
I have pickeroon that looks like someone made I tried to copy the way point is made works great it sticks and release easy
Google on the internets is your friend. There are many lovely examples of DIY and production pick/hookaroons. I have a Logrite, and it works pretty good, but if I had any skills and/or tools for metal working, I'm sure I could build a better one for 1/1oth the cost. These are not high-tech or high-precision tools, they are "work-a-day" tools and should be kept simple and inexpensive, IMHO.
I took an old mangled axe head that I found at the scrapyard and the whole thing cost me a buck fity. Yes $1.50 It's not done because I haven't been around but I cut the picaroon out with a cut off wheel and lots of time getting the rust pits out. I also need to pick up a new handle. I'm excited to try it out.
Got some time to finish it and try it out yesterday at dads. It works pretty good. I still need to pin the head and finish sharpening the tip. Turned out great! I'm going to add a palm swell around the middle of the handle for those shorter swings.
