A tool for living in the deep woods

[Wrenchmensch]

The hardwood trees in our woods top 120 feet and are clear 80 -90 feet up.  Occasionally, I have to bring one down or one blows halfway down.  After  working with the chain saw, chain, and chain hoist to drop a tree exactly where I want it, I then cut it up for firewood. That's when I use this old Snow & Nealley log peavey.  I found it in an antique store in Bangor, Maine the town where the peavey was made. When I brought this peavey back to our inn, one of the female guests asked if it was a harpoon.

The peavey is 52" long, over 100 years old, has the original maple handle, and the original cant hook affixed with square headed bolt and nut.  The peavey's bosses are beautiful. It's the ideal tool for turning 2-3' diameter logs to make the bottom cuts. (I've lived long enough to know how not to dull sharp chain teeth in a hurry.) Snow & Nealley still makes some of the best axes in the world in their Bangor plant, but I think log peavey production there is a thing of the past.

[fflintstone]

I am waiting to find one at a garage sale or something. all the new ones around here are made in China.
I like using a tool that has been around. I always wonder "was this tool used in the war effort" or "what old car was this used on."

[Branson]

That's one business like tool!   I have the cant hook, I'm looking for the handle and spike to appear one day....

[amertrac]

I have used a cant hook and a peavy hook all my life the cant hook has a foot on the point and a peavy hook has a point.
the cant is used on larger logs or logs that you do not want the point to enter the log for fear of dragging the man over the top of the log. they both work when working logs on water as well in the woods.They come in several lengths for different usage and are still made right here in the good ole usa bob w .

[Wrenchmensch]

I live on a hilltop in non-glaciated terrain in SE PA, e.g. no natural lakes and our local wild and scenic river at the base of our hill would not float a 3-foot diameter log except in late winter floods. I use both the point and the hook, the point first to serve as an anchor for the hook when it grabs.

As a boy, I used to see logs floating down the upper Hudson River above Corinth, NY on their way to the Finch Pruyn pulp mill.  I never saw men on the logs, but we were always just driving by when the logs were on the river.

BobW