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Philbert

This your company Philbert?
 
I made one out of an old chunk of leaf spring, welded to a piece of strapping fit to wrap around a hickory axe handle.

Bought another one off baileys. I like homemade one better. But good to have a spare when spread out cutting n splittin
 
Picked up this head somewhere cheap, then paid full retail at ACE hardware for a youth ax handle and mated them up for a very handy tool.
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FWIW, The guy in the video demonstrated on an extremely small round that I might kick into a pile for fire pit, but would never bother picking up to split or stack anyway. However, I am nothing if not tolerant of everyone else's right to firewooding their own way.

Stay safe folks
That's just about the perfect head shape for a Pickaroon.
 
Ace Hardware now carries Stihl. Seems Stihl now has a hookeroon also. Looks identical to the Logrite but in Stihl colors. I bought one so I could leave one on the wood pile and one on the truck, used the stihl one a couple times, hung it on a post right by the splitting block and haven't seen it since.
 
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you posted pics of your closet rod 8 ft months or years ago. Always stuck me that the key was the conduit coupling to spread out the bending moment from the hook, not just a simple drilled hole through the wood thagt would quickly split out. Neat idea.

My garden weeder one for pulling rounds out of the trailer is a bit short, was thinking of extending the handle, hauled a load this week which reminded me so I decided to build an 8 ft like yours.
I could not find a long coupling like yours, and the space between nuts is a problem, but it worked. 1/2 inch Gr 5 bolt, (I'd go an inch longer instead) ground. I welded a half circle of pipe on the hook side to keep it from rotating. Heated and oil quenched to try and put some hardness back into it.
I also ran half the handle through the table saw to put a flat on once side for my fingers, right handed, so it orients subconsciously as I hold it.

Took an hour, and $9 of materials.
Seems to work great, will be interesting to compare.

I use the axe/hookaroon to bite into and move wood around the splitter, and the weeder one only to pull out of trailer, not to bite into the wood.
 

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