Last summer I bought pickaroon (hookaroon) head at flea market.
I had an old axe handle bought from yard sale.

Yesterday, I had time to clean up head, scrap finish off handle & oil handle, hanging head & install roll pin.
Basically, putting new life into two old pieces to combine for a useful tool when cutting and splitting firewood.

Looks like a good job! I wish I knew how to hang a handle the right way.

It's cool to see old stuff like that come back to life.

Looks good

Can't say I recall ever seeing one them. What was it's single main use?

Mac

Picking up logs

That one is cool Hern, good job on the restoration.

Mac, I have a modern version, Stihl calls it a hookaroon.



I use mine to save my back when picking up blocks of firewood off the ground and loading them into my loader bucket or wheelbarrow. I have also used it to grab blocks out of the bed of the pickup.

Common tool on the RR for handling wooden track crossties.
Used them often for spreading ties along the track from the rackflats on the worktrain.
Had a bunch of them on hand.Occasionally if one got stuck in the tie too far they would stay in the tie when you whipped them off the moving train.If you didnt let it go,you would wind up flying off the top of the rackflat with the tie and pickeroon,lol.
I use one on the trapline for handling(throwing around or dragging) beaver carcasses after skinning.

Looks great Hern!

Shoulda been named “back saver”. Hauling and handeling firewood takes me waaaay longer without one. If I forget it, I go back for it.



Here’s a new one from Menards or Fleet Farm, I can’t remember. A few years ago the only place I could find them was in Canada. Now it seems they are everywhere. I keep several new and very old around the house and Canada camp. Some styles of heads, pick/hook work better with different types of wood, or frozen/thawed wood.

You mean to tell me you destroyed the natural patina, lol.

U-Toob

just had to buy a blank for an axe head the handle was - ouch 30 bucks
Got to love spring garage sales finds

Better look at quite a few videos, not just one. Lots of U-toobers just don't know what they're talking about. Anyone can make a video, but a lot of them are clueless. Trick is to find a majority consensus.

Cool. I collect adzes, axes, hatchets and cleavers and have been actively looking for old pickaroons locally, with no luck.

Keith

I've used a hookeroon for many years. It works great for standing a piece of firewood upright for splitting or unloading firewood from the bed of a Pickup. I also use one a lot on a sawmill to make adjustments in the position of the log on the mill.

Thank you, folks. Most folks never heard of them, in my area. But I would not cut or split wood without one.

Here's one I made from axe head (yard sale find)-

Very nice work.

Great re purpose Hern! Looks awesome, I got a couple old heads laying around I need to try that on. I made a short handled one out of a broken Eastwing. I keep around the splitter for moving stuff around. Never realized how ugly it was till I looked at your pics. Lol!

I bought a fireman's hatchet at Harbor Freight that really works great, no mod's required!