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A cant hook, pike, or hooked pike is a traditional
File:Waldarbeit 1040984.jpg, A German type of ring dog cant hook
File:Waldarbeit 1040993.jpg, German type in use
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File:Photograph of a Load of White Pine Logs on a Sled - NARA - 2127491.jpg, Logs loaded with cant hooks which three of the men are holding.
File:Seattle - Man with crosscut saw and peavey at Northeast Relief Depot, 1931.jpg, Man holding a crosscut saw and a peavey.
File:Peavey (PSF).png, A peavey is a cant hook with a point.
Cant Hook or Peavey?
��A great article on the history of the cant hook and peavey.
��Here's a quick brush-up on the lingo used by loggers, with fair warning that terminology differs from one region to another.
Peavey Manufacturing Co.
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A cant hook, pike, or hooked pike is a traditional logging
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handle with a movable metal hook called a dog at one end, used for handling and turning logs and cants, especially in sawmills. A cant hook has a blunt end, or possibly small teeth for friction.
A peavey or peavey hook is similar but has a spike in the working end. Many lumberjack
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s use the terms interchangeably. A peavey is generally from long. The spike is rammed into a log, then a hook (at the end of an arm attached to a pivot a short distance up the handle) grabs the log at a second place. Once engaged, the handle gives the operator lever
A lever is a simple machine consisting of a beam (structure), beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or '':wikt:fulcrum, fulcrum''. A lever is a rigid body capable of rotating on a point on itself. On the basis of the locations of fulcrum, l ...
age to roll or slide or float the log to a new place. The peavey was named for blacksmith
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Joseph Peavey of Maine
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who invented the tool as a refinement to the cant hook in the late 1850s. The Peavey Manufacturing Co. is still located in Eddington, Maine, and manufactures several variations. From early times to about 1910, the peavey was written about with various spellings such as "pevy" and "pivie".
Description
A logging tool description from the Lumberman's Museum at Patten, Maine, reads in part: "A cant dog or cant hook was used for lifting, turning, and prying logs when loading sleds and on the drive. At first, a swivel hook on a pole with nothing to hold it in position was used. This was called a swing dingle." However, the term ''swing dingle'' is more often published as being a type of logging sled. These early types are also called a ring dog or ring dog cant hook.Mercer, Henry C. (2000). ''Ancient Carpenters' Tools: Illustrated and Explained, Together with the Implements of the Lumberman, Joiner, and Cabinet-Maker in Use in the Eighteenth Century''. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. p. 40. In 1858, Joseph Peavey, ablacksmith
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in Stillwater, Maine
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, made a rigid clasp to encircle the cant dog handle with the hook on one side. It moved up and down, but not sideways. Loggers have used it ever since.
While this tool has its origins in the logging industry, many arborists, tree care professionals, landowners and portable sawmill
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logging, logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes ...
operators now use cant hooks for moving logs and timber.
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See also
* Boat hook * Drawknife * Forestry hook * Pickaroon * Pike pole * Sappie *Tongs
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References
External links
Cant Hook or Peavey?
��A great article on the history of the cant hook and peavey.
��Here's a quick brush-up on the lingo used by loggers, with fair warning that terminology differs from one region to another.
Peavey Manufacturing Co.
{{Forestry tools Forestry tools Log transport Logging Mechanical hand tools