Chainsaw Repair
Chain - Grinders - Filing - Wood Milling - Tools - Welding - Machinist - Mowers - Tillers => Tool Shed => Topic started by: 3000 FPS on February 22, 2013, 05:09:17 pm
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Just finished up my home made Peavy from some scrap metal in the garage. The handle is a old section of galvanized 1" pipe. I tried it on a piece of wood and think it will work great. I put a small foot at the bottom to lift a log off the ground a couple of inches so that I can cut through a log without hitting the ground. It is not perfect and will not fit every situation but will get the job done most of the time.
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Nice.
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That's nice! Should work great.
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Just going to piggy back your thread Roger. Hope you dont mind.
I'm not a welder so I had to order some tools to make it easier on my back too.
Fiberglass handle on the peavy
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g289/doemaster789/346xpg262xp/550545canthookloglift002_zps19580e92.jpg)
(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g289/doemaster789/346xpg262xp/550545canthookloglift003_zps1670595a.jpg)
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Fiberglass handle is nice. That should make it nice and light.
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Fiberglass handle is nice. That should make it nice and light.
It's heavy as heck IMO. Then again I have never owned one to compare. The handle is almost bigger around then my hands can partially wrap around them.
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The handle did not look to be that big around in the picture. I know I will be using mine alot when the time comes or maybe even the wife. She likes to go out and cut firewood.
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Our Stihl peavy is a joke. Too heavy, handle too big and hook is useless. I put new handles in my 80 year old peavys. Now have something useful.
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Our Stihl peavy is a joke. Too heavy, handle too big and hook is useless. I put new handles in my 80 year old peavys. Now have something useful.
Any pictures of those 80 year old peavys. I would be interested in seeing them.
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Had a log jack that a friend gave to me. He told me it didn't work. I use my Timberjack all the time and couldn't understand why he didn't think it was useful. That was, until I tried it. He was right, it didn't work. The hook was designed incorrectly and the thing wouldn't grab a log to enable lifting/rolling it. Cut it apart and welded in a piece to correct the orientation. NOW, it works. I'm thinking of giving it back to him. It had a screw together handle and that was continuously coming loose so it got a spot of weld on it too. I don't understand how companies can manufacture junk that doesn't work. Don't they test stuff before approving the design??
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Well the peavy that I made I broke one of the joints on it when trying to roll a 36" round. I had to weld it back together and put some reinforcements on the sides. Works ok now.
One thing I have noticed about this peavy I made is that because I made the hook rather large I have found it to work really good on large logs but on small ones in the 12" to 14" range it does not hook very well. I may have to make a smaller version for rolling small diameter but very long logs.
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I took a picture today of some of the rounds that I use the peavey on that I made. I can move some pretty big logs with it.
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BIG for sure. How big across or around?
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BIG for sure. How big across or around?
That one there is about 38" across. I have one coming up even bigger. I will take a picture when I get to it.
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Cottonwoods are rather common about an hour North of here at Lake Erie. If you leave a door open, your house will fill up waste deep in cottonwood fuzz.
They grow to be huge trees up there.
You'll have to learn how to use them in your stove? I bet your BIL knows how to use them. They are not like using California oak.
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Cottonwoods are rather common about an hour North of here at Lake Erie. If you leave a door open, your house will fill up waste deep in cottonwood fuzz.
They grow to be huge trees up there.
You'll have to learn how to use them in your stove? I bet your BIL knows how to use them. They are not like using California oak.
Right now all I know is that it will burn and make heat. I will eventually figure it out.
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From my experience, one split will not burn by itself after the bark is gone. You'll need at least three splits beside each other to hold enough heat in the wood to keep it going? Or maybe a piece of pine in there with it?
Firewood is different in WY compared with around here. Cottonwood is common in Louisiana and I heard all kinds of stories from guys in the Army (Ft Polk) trying to get it to burn like they were used to oak in Alabama and Georgia.
Your family members near you will tell you all about how to make it go. Willow is the same way.
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Maybe they did not season the wood long enough. Maybe smaller splits will work better.
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Could be? I had about a cord of willow splits given to me back 40 years ago and it wasn't like burning the locust, silver maple, and walnut I was used to. But it does burn. I eventually mixed a little of the other wood in with it and everything was fine. But like I said, us Easterners are very different from what some people have to do in other parts of the country. Sometimes, you have no choice?
Dated a girl once that her folks heated with yellow pine. (plenty of yellow pine in the Southeast) I didn't see the wood pile but my nose told me. I got a glimpse of the stove through the living room window as I was walking up to the front door. Maybe the flue wasn't set up right? I got used to it after a few minutes. Maybe she was standing near a brush fire out behind the house before dark?
Pine makes a lot of tar in your flue when you use a air tight stove and idle it a lot. Then when you put the stove on high, the tar sounds like a rocket motor and your pipe vibrates and glows red.
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There is a lot of pine that is used here. I see it for sale in the paper all the time, like you would see oak or some other hard wood. That is what my brother in law burns most of the time.
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I know all that works out there and people know how to make it go.
I cut down three dying pine trees and two big junipers that were in my way in the yard and gave three loads of it to my older son's FIL and they used it in a fire pit. The rest I burned in a fire pit in the back yard. I'm sure someone out there would have enjoyed heating with it.
Seems I remember you had some Siberian Elms? I had a couple hundred of Chinese elms I had planted as a wind break in the early 70's. But as time goes on, they die or I build a building and I burn them in the fire place. The power company took out about two dozen back 16 years ago and cut down about a dozen to build a pole barn. I burned them in the fireplace. It is as good as ash as far as I'm concerned. I think the Chinese elm is a little different from the Siberian elm? The leaves look alike.
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Yes I believe you are correct on the leaves being the same but Siberian elm has a different bark then Chinese elm and I think they get larger. I know when lifting rounds of cottonwood and elm the elm is a lot heavier.
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The Chinese elm has a beautiful striped grain. The grain texture reminds one of hickory.
One of those elm stumps will disappear after 12-15 years but a yellow pine stump will hang around a life time because of the sap.