What’s this tool called

[flh801978]

What’s the tool called for manhandling logs around ...its sort of a bar with a swinging hook that grips the log and then you lever the log around ?
I’ve seen them used when people are putting logs on bandsaw mills

But can i find one without knowing what its called

Ian

 

[Bob Graham]

I googled logging tool and came up with Felling bar with hook.

 

[bugbear]

I suspect you mean this:

Peavey

BugBear

 

[NazNomad]

Cant Hook (or Cantilever Hook, I believe)

 

[Beau]

Yep felling lever with hook.

Other handy tools for handling heavy logs are timber tongs and a log pick.

 

[Beau]

These are handy as well if cutting up timber https://www.chainsawbars.co.uk/product/ ... berjack-2/

 

[flh801978]

Thanks for all the replies

 

[heimlaga]

Personally I consider a felling bar with a hook to be a not very good substitute for a cant hook.
You need the felling bar to make big trees fall in the right direction and you cannot carry both a felling bar and a cant hook with you in the woods so then the substitute cant hook is very appropriate.
At a log buiding site or a band sawmill sawing big logs you want a proper canthook.

I think it is called cant hook because you use it to turn the cant on the saw table.

Another great tool for handling and loading logs by hand is a Hällnäslyft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq0c5ZarilU
Mine was made by Jonsson&Lagerkvist back when they still had a three digit phone number.
Nowadays the company is called Lameco AB and rumours say that they still make them. Logosol sells another version on the same concept.

 

[MikeJhn]

Now thats a good use for an old Mk1 Land Rover Jack. #-o

Mike