Best way to buck large logs?

[Bigg_Redd]

Most hardware stores either have them or can order one. You can do a search for cant hook also. You want a cant hook rather than a peavey. One with a 3' or 4' handle should do everything you need done. Mine is a 4' handle.

I disagree. Everyone who cuts their own firewood should have a peavy.

The handle on my peavy isn't much longer than 4'.

We are talking about the same thing, right?

 

[Bigg_Redd]

Most hardware stores either have them or can order one. You can do a search for cant hook also. You want a cant hook rather than a peavey. One with a 3' or 4' handle should do everything you need done. Mine is a 4' handle.

Seriously, I have never seen one new.

I must pursue this as I need one badly.

cheers

I can't imagine every saw shop in BC not having one

 

[Bigg_Redd]

I've got a peavey & I think it is useless. I can't get a bite with it on the big stuff & I don't need it for the small stuff. As far as cutting big logs, WEDGES are your friend. I am cutting up 4' diameter oak right now with a 6401 with a 20" bar. I have to cut it into chunks. I start at say at 10 on the clock & go over the top with the entire bar buried & then down to bottom bark on one side. Then down to the bottom on the other side. Then I rip down the face in thirds as close to the bottom as I can get. Then drive some wedges down & split the chunk off the bark. Then crosscut horizontally across the face at the depth I was able to hit coming down from the top. Leave the bottom center until I get the next section cut with the outer two third sections cut off. I can now come back for the bottom center section. Only thing is even though I am only cutting 14" cookies, I still have to rip them down to smaller chunks. They are just way to heavy to move otherwise. Oh yeah, I also can't use my pulp hooks for the chunks. They just bounce off!
Al

Kinda odd

There are two possibilities here

1) You have a piece-of-sh_t peavy

2) Operator error

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Perhaps I should have worded that different. My fault. Around here it is easy to get one.

However, I still say you should use a cant hook rather than a peavey. Perhaps some think they are the same thing and they are not. They are similar but not the same.

Once you start using a cant hook, you will probably wonder how you ever got along without one! Unless, of course, everything you cut is really small stuff. Then you need a sawbuck.

 

[Bigg_Redd]

Perhaps I should have worded that different. My fault. Around here it is easy to get one.

However, I still say you should use a cant hook rather than a peavey. Perhaps some think they are the same thing and they are not. They are similar but not the same.

Once you start using a cant hook, you will probably wonder how you ever got along without one! Unless, of course, everything you cut is really small stuff. Then you need a sawbuck.

Is a cant hook a peavy-like device with a cleat on it that lifts the end of a log off the ground? If so we call them log-jacks. They're handy if you're cutting with a partner and the logs aren't too big - the ones I've seen/used are not stout enough to roll the big fir.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

No, not the same thing at all. Check out the link and scroll down just a bit for a picture which shows them side by side.


Cant hook vs Peavey

 

[billb3]

If I was cutting large log lengths in the yard , I'd build up the ground with a little crown.
Dirt, shavings, mulch whatever.
A few wedges to help hold things on the crown.

In the woods I use branches and roll onto them.
A cant hook or even just a branch as a lever works.
I've even levered fence posts/rails on bigger stuff. (including to get a stuck bar out)

The bigger stuff does test your engineering skills a little bit.

 

[smokinj]

Best way to buck large logs? guess what a peavy cant hook or timber jack is not going to work on large trunk. I wouldn't worry about the chain hitting the ground just do your best and keep cutting til it is manageable.Peavy's are great tools but the saw is the weapon of choice on a big trunk.

 

[Bigg_Redd]

No, not the same thing at all. Check out the link and scroll down just a bit for a picture which shows them side by side.


Cant hook vs Peavey

Looks like a peavy to meavy

 

[Nonprophet]

I strongly recommend the Logrite peaveys and cant hooks. I paid about $125 for my 4' cant hook with the timber jack attachment--I absolutely love it! It's not cheap, but I could probably use it lift the rear end of my Tacoma out of a mud hole if I had to......it will definitely outlast me!!

NP

 

[Spikem]

I strongly recommend the Logrite peaveys and cant hooks. I paid about $125 for my 4' cant hook with the timber jack attachment--I absolutely love it! It's not cheap, but I could probably use it lift the rear end of my Tacoma out of a mud hole if I had to......it will definitely outlast me!!

NP

I'll agree with this. I bought a Logrite peavey with a timber jack attachment and love it also. Yes, not cheap. So? Neither was my saw.

 

[Bigg_Redd]

I strongly recommend the Logrite peaveys and cant hooks. I paid about $125 for my 4' cant hook with the timber jack attachment--I absolutely love it! It's not cheap, but I could probably use it lift the rear end of my Tacoma out of a mud hole if I had to......it will definitely outlast me!!

NP

I'll agree with this. I bought a Logrite peavey with a timber jack attachment and love it also. Yes, not cheap. So? Neither was my saw.

Looked at the LogRite site. Didn't find a peavey with a log jack on it.

 

[savageactor7]

Big Redd you might be thinking of a 'tree jack' here's what spikem is talking about ....
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[Bigg_Redd]

Big Redd you might be thinking of a 'tree jack' here's what spikem is talking about ....
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That is what I'm thinking of. What is a "timber jack"?