cant hook

- A great article on the history of the cant hook and peavey.

Specialized logging tools of similar appearance are peavey and cant hook.

These early types are also called a ring dog or ring dog cant hook.

Unlike the similar peavey, the cant hook has a blunt tip, often bearing teeth.

If I had two cant hooks I might be able to fool the thing, but it could no doubt compensate for the resolution of forces.

Subble decided not to inquire what the difference was between a peavey and a cant hook.

You're another peavey made out of a cant hook - only you don't even know what you started out to be.'

Cant Hook or Peavey?

Before pile drivers or water jet pumps were available, these threaded logs were screwed into lake or river bottom by men using cant hooks, Manfred said.

After the Civil War, many soldiers found jobs as lumberjacks cutting logs and guiding them down the river with pike poles, peaveys, and cant hooks.

A cant hook is a traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook called a dogat one end, used for handling and moving logs.

While this tool has its origins in the logging industry, many arborists, tree care professionals, land owners and portable sawmill operators now use cant hooks for moving logs and timber.

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.

The peavey was named for blacksmith Joseph Peavey of Upper Stillwater, Maine, who invented the tool as a refinement to the cant hook (also known as a "cant dog") in the 1850s.

Part of the Land of the Free series, it celebrates the contribution of Norwegian immigrants to the Wisconsin logging industry through the story of 15-year-old Nils, a trained knife sharpener, who emigrates to America and sets up a business making cant hooks.

"You're looking at all my junk right now," he said, sweeping his arm in the direction of a display of tools that included lumber saws, broad axes, adzes, hatchets, draw knives, cant hooks, burl mallets and a particularly handsome chisel with a carved wooden handle.