Hey, fellas.
Fairly new member here with a firewood tool to show you. It's not as pretty as yours, kinda hillbilly engineered, but it sure works well when I'm getting in the winter fuel. I'm thinning my woodlot and there's probly 2 or 3 cords of blowdown out there from storms this fall and last winter. Many of you know the usefulness of a pickaroon for handling firewood and small poles. I've had a few pickaroons, and I'm kinda partial to long-hooked ones. After a while, you can hook a round, move it to where you want it, and sort of twist your wrist to drop it.
Well, sometimes my rounds sneak through with a sucker branch or staub still attached, and I don't want to fire up the chainsaw again, so I combined a hatchet blade and a pickaroon to create the... Hatcheroon!
My buddy Gary did the welding (I suck at welding) but I made all the parts - a busted cold chisel ground to a point for the spike, a flattened piece of pipe and the blade is a chunk of leaf spring.
Maybe I should call it the "hawk-eroon" because it looks more like a tomahawk than a hatchet.
Here it is doin' the job...
A family shot with a Collins 2-1/4# camp axe and a cute little trail hatchet that I inherited from my dad and rehandled.
Here's how it rides, complete with handcrafted safety condom made of duct tape (I meant to make a leather sheath for it, but ahhh, pressing seasonal obligations keep getting in the way).
Anyway, there it is - built for comfort, not for speed. Sure comes in handy in the forest and on my ATV.
Parker
Fairly new member here with a firewood tool to show you. It's not as pretty as yours, kinda hillbilly engineered, but it sure works well when I'm getting in the winter fuel. I'm thinning my woodlot and there's probly 2 or 3 cords of blowdown out there from storms this fall and last winter. Many of you know the usefulness of a pickaroon for handling firewood and small poles. I've had a few pickaroons, and I'm kinda partial to long-hooked ones. After a while, you can hook a round, move it to where you want it, and sort of twist your wrist to drop it.
Well, sometimes my rounds sneak through with a sucker branch or staub still attached, and I don't want to fire up the chainsaw again, so I combined a hatchet blade and a pickaroon to create the... Hatcheroon!
My buddy Gary did the welding (I suck at welding) but I made all the parts - a busted cold chisel ground to a point for the spike, a flattened piece of pipe and the blade is a chunk of leaf spring.
Maybe I should call it the "hawk-eroon" because it looks more like a tomahawk than a hatchet.
Here it is doin' the job...
A family shot with a Collins 2-1/4# camp axe and a cute little trail hatchet that I inherited from my dad and rehandled.
Here's how it rides, complete with handcrafted safety condom made of duct tape (I meant to make a leather sheath for it, but ahhh, pressing seasonal obligations keep getting in the way).
Anyway, there it is - built for comfort, not for speed. Sure comes in handy in the forest and on my ATV.
Parker
