turnkey4099
Elite Member
After finally breaking down and buying a "hookeroon" (log rite) a few years ago I decided climbing up in the truck bed to unload stuff that was out of reach was a nuisance.
Buit myself a 7' hookeroon:
8' closet pole cut to 7 (should have been a bit longer). Compression fitting (Dressler Coupling) from the plumbing department. I think it is 1 1/2" - has to be sized to the closet pole. Cross drilled for a short length of 1/2" all thread sharpened and "hooked" on one end.
Haven't crawled up in the bed since (except for any small stuff - too much of a nuisance tryint to hook them). _However_ that is my "wooding" truck and the bed is beat to piss already. I still shudder everyting one of those big chunks come off the pile and pile drives the bed. Even leaving a layer or two of unloaded rounds still makes big noisees.
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After hours of cutting I hate loading small rounds - ones that won't need splitting. Decided it would save cutting and loading time in the field if I were to cut the small but usuable limbs in lenghts up to 8' and haul them home. Built a 'limb wood sawbuck. I set it up on a couple unsplit rounds.
Loaded up:
Cut up:
Folds flat when done:
Harry K
Buit myself a 7' hookeroon:
8' closet pole cut to 7 (should have been a bit longer). Compression fitting (Dressler Coupling) from the plumbing department. I think it is 1 1/2" - has to be sized to the closet pole. Cross drilled for a short length of 1/2" all thread sharpened and "hooked" on one end.
Haven't crawled up in the bed since (except for any small stuff - too much of a nuisance tryint to hook them). _However_ that is my "wooding" truck and the bed is beat to piss already. I still shudder everyting one of those big chunks come off the pile and pile drives the bed. Even leaving a layer or two of unloaded rounds still makes big noisees.
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After hours of cutting I hate loading small rounds - ones that won't need splitting. Decided it would save cutting and loading time in the field if I were to cut the small but usuable limbs in lenghts up to 8' and haul them home. Built a 'limb wood sawbuck. I set it up on a couple unsplit rounds.
Loaded up:
Cut up:
Folds flat when done:
Harry K