I’ve been reading about these tools for a while now. There not common down here in my neck of the woods, so I’m wondering if anyone has experience with either one and perhaps a preference one way or the other. I enjoy cutting wood and cut a good bit. The idea of cutting down on the bending over sounds pretty good.

I don't know what a hookeroon is, but the old fashioned pickaroon is common up here, and up until a decade or so ago, there was a fella still turning them out in his blacksmith shop in the town next door. I've got one.

Both are very handy but designed for different tasks. The hookeroon doesn't have the point that a pickaroon does. If I had to choose two tools for log work they would be a hookeroon and a cant hook

Used a pickeroon lots on the railroad for handling ties.Unloading off the work train rack flats full of ties throwing them off all day spreading for a changeout programs.Also used them for pulling and installing ties for spot installations on the section gang.
A hookaroon sticks more than a pickeroon,so if you are throwing ties off a rack flat you lose a few cause if you don't let go when the tie goes you go over too.

Tongs were safer for installing and pulling ties in the track,and safer too,but the pickeroon was faster.
I use a pickeroon now for handling frozen and unfrozen carcasses.Great for throwing and dragging beaver carcasses around.

hookeroons are typically a pole with a spike to grab wood. often longer

pickeroons are more of a pick often like and ax head but instead of a blade a pick they use an ax handle but have a rol pin to keep them form pulling off

there are barbed picks and un-barbed

and there are Axeroons these are a small ax head on one side and a pick on other

all very usefull

a video on an axaroon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbiOH5855w

I have an axaroon and a pickeroon the axaroon is my favorite this is the one that I have and like , I really like the way it's barb sticks http://www.landmsupply.com/department/la...ZnXUaAoj88P8HAQ

I think the names are interchangeable. I have what Stihl calls a hookaroon. It has a very sharp barbed point and I use it to pick up firewood without bending over and/or dragging firewood out of the truck without climbing up in the bed.

A search for "pickaroon" shows many tools that look just like it.

I’m a pickaroon guy myself. Saves the back big time when picking up logs for splitting.

I use a pickaroon. Handy tool I use for firewood.
I made this pickaroon from yard sale fines- $2 axe head $1 handle...

each area of the country answered the same question different ways and thus different names

sort of like the difference between a Peavey VS a Cant hook nearly the same tool with a slight difference because of the nature of logging in that area.

Hern - great work!

Stihl Hookaroon

Hookaroon has a bend at the tip and a square profile,like I said it is made to hang on better.A pickaroon has a straight point and round and thicker,it is made to let go easy when throwing ties\logs.
They were catalogued separately on our requisition list-two different tools for different applications.Most probably don't know the difference unless you use them both on a regular basis.

the Stihl is a re-branded LogRite hookeroon. http://www.baileysonline.com/Forestry-Wo...0-Hookeroon.axd

a goode selection of the option only missing a few that I have found else were like the axaroon I posted already and one made in MN

http://www.baileysonline.com/Forestry-Woodcutting/Log-Handling-Tools/Hookeroons-Sappies/


this is the MN made one http://pickaroon.com/ I have one of these also


but I still prefer the axaroon http://www.landmsupply.com/department/lawn-garden/timber-removal/woodchuck-tools-pick-axe

they have a barbed pick design that holds very well , if you can lift it with one arm it will hold



axaroon in the right hand pickeroon in the left

They sure look the same:





I like my Stihl hookaroon, even though it has a barbed end it is easy to release once you get the hang of it. Saves me a lot of bending over.

that is part of what I like about the Axaroon barb design , it holds very very well but when you set the log on the tail gait or slitter an push down on the handle it pops right out it grips in one direction ans slips right out in the other , the pickeroon.com grips decently but takes a little more effort to get into a log an doesn't come out quite as easily.

I have seen people make up hookeroons on an 8 foot pole , they can unload the hole truck without ever getting in or bending over

they forged their own spike , but one could easily buy the replacement spike for the LogRite , and put it through a short section of pipe over a wood handle drill the hole through to match and put a bolt and nylock nut on and have a nice long hookeroon for under 20 dollars less if you cut the pole yourself from a nice strait understory tree.

Thank you all for the suggestions and advice. That’s what I like about this site, real advice from real folks. Hern that’s a fine looking tool. I’ve cut and stacked 2 chord in the last two days I guarantee you I’ll have a roon be fore I go back at it.

I cut a mix of pine and hardwood to feed my outdoor furnace. Do? both roons work well in hardwood and softwood.

These tools appear to be very handy, saving the bending over and sore back. Would they work in hard wood like hedge (osage orange)?

My Stihl hookeroon has a very sharp barbed point. I have no problem sticking it into Locust and Oak. I think it would work well on any species of wood.

That’s good to hear.

I bought a "Fireman's Hatchet at Harbor Freight and use it as an "Hatchetroon", didn't need to mod it at all, and he cutting side is handy for trimming those small sprouty branches. Really a back saver. About $18.