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Only the Beaver has no cant-hook to help him, and no skidway, either.
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In that case it must be cut into short billets and rolled, as a cant-hook man rolls a log down a skidway.
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Personal items > range from buttons to part of a harmonica. Numerous tobacco tins and snuff > cans attest to extensive use of these substances. Tools were too expensive > to leave behind; the few examples found include a cant hook, saw, and wedge. > Artifact dates indicate occupation of the camp between ca.
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In the mid-1960s they began to be made of aluminum tubing plugged with a wooden knob to maintain buoyancy. Specialized logging tools of similar appearance are peavey and cant hook. Pike poles are also used for rescue work to grab people or objects floating in high and rough waters. Linemen use pike poles to maintain power lines.
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A logging tool description from the Lumberman's Museum at Patten, Maine, reads in part: "A cant dog or cant hook was used for lifting, turning, and prying logs when loading sleds and on the drive. At first, a swivel hook on a pole with nothing to hold it in position was used. This was called a swing dingle."Salaman, R. A.. Dictionary of tools used in the woodworking and allied trades, c. 1700-1970.
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The spike is rammed into a log, then a hook (at the end of an arm attached to a pivot a short distance up the handle) grabs the log at a second place. Once engaged, the handle gives the operator leverage to roll or slide or float the log to a new place. The peavey was named for blacksmith Joseph Peavey of Upper Stillwater, Maine, who invented the tool as a refinement to the cant hook in the 1850s (one statement says, in 1857 spring). Many lumberjacks use the terms interchangeably.
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