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Pickaroon
A pickaroon (or picaroon) is a wood-handled (may be other materials also), metal-topped log handling tool that originates from the Alpine Region where it is called "Sappie, Zapin, Sapine". It is distinguished from a pike pole by having a shorter handle, no metal point, and an opposite curve to its hook (toward the handle rather than away); and from both a cant hook and peavey by having a fixed hook facing its handle rather than a pivoting one facing away. A pickaroon with a down-turned point on its hook is known as a ''sappie'' or ''hookaroon''; one with an axe blade opposite its hook an ''axaroon'', eliminating the need to carry two tools to manage logs. See also * Picaroons Traditional Ales Picaroons Traditional Ales are a production of the Northampton Brewing Company Ltd., which was started in 1995 and is located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The Picaroons brand is sold in numerous taverns and restaurants in New Brunswick. I ... – A New Brunswick brewer named aft ...
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Cant Hook
A cant hook or pike or a hooked pike is a traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook called a dog at one end, used for handling and turning logs and cants, especially in sawmills. A peavey or peavey hook is similar, but has a spike in the working end of the handle, whereas a cant dog has a blunt end or possibly small teeth for friction. A peavey is generally from long, with a metal spike at the end. 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 spring 1857). Many lumberjacks use the terms interchangeably. The Peavey Manufacturing Co. is still in Eddington, Maine ...
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Pike Pole
A pike pole is a long metal-topped wooden, aluminium or fiberglass pole used for reaching, hooking and/or pulling on another object. They are variously used in boating, construction, logging, rescue and recovery, power line maintenance, and firefighting."Tools of the Trade: Firefighting Hand Tools and Their Use", PennWell Books, 1997, Chapter 5, "Poles"/ref> Uses The pole's original use in the fire service was to pull down walls and neighboring buildings to stop a fire's spread. Modern firefighting pike poles are usually of fiberglass, between 4 feet to 12 feet long, and used to search for fires hidden behind walls and ceilings, to pull items from intense heat and flames, and to ventilate structures by breaking windows. Pike poles are routinely used by firefighters as part of fire operations known as "overhaul". The design of a Pike Pole allows for the pole to be inserted with force into a wall or ceiling and the pole rotated, allowing the hook to grab and pull down large ...
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Peavey (tool)
Peavey may refer to: * Peavey (surname) * Peavey (tool), a logging tool * Peavey Electronics, an American audio equipment manufacturer * Peavey Company, a former name of Gavilon, an American commodity management firm See also * Peavy (other) * * * Pee Vee (other) * Pee Wee (other) * PV (other) PV may refer to: Places * Paceville, Malta * Puerto Vallarta, Mexico * Postal village, a settlement that has a post office United States * Palos Verdes Peninsula, California * Prescott Valley, Arizona * Prairie Village, Kansas Politics * Par ...
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Picaroons Traditional Ales
Picaroons Traditional Ales are a production of the Northampton Brewing Company Ltd., which was started in 1995 and is located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The Picaroons brand is sold in numerous taverns and restaurants in New Brunswick. It is also sold in bottles in New Brunswick liquor outlets and in a few other provinces as well. A 'Picaroon' was a common tool used in the logging industry in New Brunswick. In 2009, Picaroons became one of the first breweries in Canada to launch its own online social network at PicaroonsPub.com. In 2010, Picaroons partnered witThe Bar Towel an Ontario craft beer web site, to distribute its beers in Ontario for the first time. In 2011, Picaroons won brewery of the year at the Canadian Brewing Awards. In 2016, Picaroons opened their new tap house and brewery at Fredericton's historic roundhouse in Devon. In 2016, Picaroons opened a second location called The General Store on Saint John's historic Canterbury Street. Brewing Sever ...
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Logging
Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars. Logging is the beginning of a supply chain that provides raw material for many products societies worldwide use for housing, construction, energy, and consumer paper products. Logging systems are also used to manage forests, reduce the risk of wildfires, and restore ecosystem functions, though their efficiency for these purposes has been challenged. In forestry, the term logging is sometimes used narrowly to describe the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard. In common usage, however, the term may cover a range of forestry or silviculture activities. Illegal logging refers to the harvesting, transportation, purchase, or sale of timber in violation of laws. The harvesting procedure itself may be illegal, includin ...
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Mechanical Hand Tools
Mechanical may refer to: Machine * Machine (mechanical), a system of mechanisms that shape the actuator input to achieve a specific application of output forces and movement * Mechanical calculator, a device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic * Mechanical energy, the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy * Mechanical system, a system that manages the power of forces and movements to accomplish a task * Mechanism (engineering), a portion of a mechanical device Other * Mechanical (character), one of several characters in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' * A kind of typeface in the VOX-ATypI classification See also * Machine, especially in opposition to an electronic item * ''Mechanical Animals'', the third full-length studio release by Marilyn Manson * Manufactured or artificial, especially in opposition to a biological or natural component * Automation, using machine decisions and processing instead of human * Mechanization, using machine labor inste ...
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