duke
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Great tool for moving log sections around. I use it mostly when processing firewood.
Pickaroon- very useful
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Yep, very useful for timber handling 
I use one together with a pair of log tongs when moving and stacking five foot long logs for seasoning, use the pick to lift one end of the log up for getting the tongs on and then pick in the other end, allows lifting and moving the logs without any back or knee strain at all, a great tool combo !
I use one together with a pair of log tongs when moving and stacking five foot long logs for seasoning, use the pick to lift one end of the log up for getting the tongs on and then pick in the other end, allows lifting and moving the logs without any back or knee strain at all, a great tool combo !
The way you have your crowbar selection displayed and that log tool impaled in that post tells me “ you ain’t playing” 
duke
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I have also dragged lengths of logs out of the bush, much easier using this tool.Yep, very useful for timber handling
I use one together with a pair of log tongs when moving and stacking five foot long logs for seasoning, use the pick to lift one end of the log up for getting the tongs on and then pick in the other end, allows lifting and moving the logs without any back or knee strain at all, a great tool combo !
Looks great.
You can tell from the flare at the end of the shaft that it's just going to feel great and give a super grip.
You can tell from the flare at the end of the shaft that it's just going to feel great and give a super grip.
duke
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This tool was purchased at Lee Valley tools.
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Mostly called a Sappie this side of the Atlantic Duke, although to me they are log picks.
I've a couple, a medium shafted homemade one and a long shafted one. The one I cut and ground from an old axe head beats any of the commercial ones I've used. It'll lift a large seasoned round through the bark if needed. The black one needed some work to go from a hooky/beaky shape to something more useful. Would recommend them to anybody shifting or moving rounds and logs, absolute back saver.
Stubai a good make and they still have a good range of long and short Sappies/picks.
I've a couple, a medium shafted homemade one and a long shafted one. The one I cut and ground from an old axe head beats any of the commercial ones I've used. It'll lift a large seasoned round through the bark if needed. The black one needed some work to go from a hooky/beaky shape to something more useful. Would recommend them to anybody shifting or moving rounds and logs, absolute back saver.
Stubai a good make and they still have a good range of long and short Sappies/picks.
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Like the homemade one Noel !
The shaft won't have the same profiling otherwise I'm struck that what you've made eminds me of a climber's peg (ie piton) hammer, sharpened up.
Mind, some of those were made by Stubai. I wonder if the early climbers didn't just repurpose the sappie of their day...
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The shaft won't have the same profiling otherwise I'm struck that what you've made eminds me of a climber's peg (ie piton) hammer, sharpened up.
Mind, some of those were made by Stubai. I wonder if the early climbers didn't just repurpose the sappie of their day...
Images sourced from the web...
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Deadeye
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Ha! Climber here.
Stubai is indeed a long-standing manufacturer of climbing hardware - ice axes, pitons, hammers, crampons included.
Climbing hammers tend to have a drilled hole with a swaged cable through it. This is clipped to pitons so that the hammer can be used for removal as well as placement. The pointed tail of the hammer is to both dress thin pitons ("lost arrows") and to hit copperheads (or "bashies") - which are soft metal protection that gets moulded into fine seams/cracks. Typically just body-weight placements and scary as ****!
