Pickaroon
A pickaroon (or picaroon) is a wood-handled, metal-topped log handling tool.[1] 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;[2] one with an axe blade opposite its hook an axaroon, obviating the need to carry two tools to manage logs.[3]
See also
- Picaroons Traditional Ales – A New Brunswick brewer named after the common logging tool. [4]
References
- ^ http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/reviews/outdoor-tools/how-to-handle-five-extreme-tools-pickaroon#slide-2
- ^ http://axehistory.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=34
- ^ http://www.pickaroon.com/products.htm
- ^ "Of Malts and Men". Sharp Magazine. Contempo Media. July 2008. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
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