unloading firewood blocks

[Cedar Row]

I heat two buildings; house and shop and haul firewood blocks from the woods in a pickup with a camper top with side windows. Have aways loaded/ unloaded the up front blocks (8"to 24",mostly toward 8" nowdays).
I have several types of tools including two pickaroons, 2' and 4'. Now that I am 76, the front blocks are getting hard to unload. I have looked for a long pickaroon that would reach the front of the truck bed, found an interesting looking 6' one, but turns out that you have to buy 3 of them. Others take weeks or months to ship and are pricey. Anyone know of a source for a long hookeroon,or a hack using a shorter one? I may be the only person who hauls firewood blocks in a truck with a camper top. But handling the blocks from the tailgate to the splitter works really well, and a hook on a long handle would make the front blocks much easier to unload.

 

[PEK]

I heat two buildings; house and shop and haul firewood blocks from the woods in a pickup with a camper top with side windows. Have aways loaded/ unloaded the up front blocks (8"to 24",mostly toward 8" nowdays).
I have several types of tools including two pickaroons, 2' and 4'. Now that I am 76, the front blocks are getting hard to unload. I have looked for a long pickaroon that would reach the front of the truck bed, found an interesting looking 6' one, but turns out that you have to buy 3 of them. Others take weeks or months to ship and are pricey. Anyone know of a source for a long hookeroon,or a hack using a shorter one? I may be the only person who hauls firewood blocks in a truck with a camper top. But handling the blocks from the tailgate to the splitter works really well, and a hook on a long handle would make the front blocks much easier to unload.View attachment 1045536

Pickaroons we call them hookaroons, getting older saves a lot of bending, my small one I use all the time, the bigger one is a stihl not used as much but a handy bit of kit.

 

[sliderulacuracy]

I heat two buildings; house and shop and haul firewood blocks from the woods in a pickup with a camper top with side windows. Have aways loaded/ unloaded the up front blocks (8"to 24",mostly toward 8" nowdays).
I have several types of tools including two pickaroons, 2' and 4'. Now that I am 76, the front blocks are getting hard to unload. I have looked for a long pickaroon that would reach the front of the truck bed, found an interesting looking 6' one, but turns out that you have to buy 3 of them. Others take weeks or months to ship and are pricey. Anyone know of a source for a long hookeroon,or a hack using a shorter one? I may be the only person who hauls firewood blocks in a truck with a camper top. But handling the blocks from the tailgate to the splitter works really well, and a hook on a long handle would make the front blocks much easier to unload.View attachment 1045536

Rather than a fancy store bought one, why not get a straight 1 1/2 inch stick or maybe a shovel handle and put a 4" lag screw through it(drill an undersized hole first). this one isn't going to be your main tool but just for a few that are way in.

 

[Cedar Row]

Rather than a fancy store bought one, why not get a straight 1 1/2 inch stick or maybe a shovel handle and put a 4" lag screw through it(drill an undersized hole first). this one isn't going to be your main tool but just for a few that are way in.

Good idea, I have thought of many alternatives but not that one.

 

[mijdirtyjeep]

Could you put a load handler in the bed and then just crank them forward? A couple may roll off, but if stacked and maybe a 4x4 board screwed at the front to keep it from pulling out under the wood. Just a thought as they are pretty cheap now

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[cantoo]

Use a hoe.

 

[Cedar Row]

Which one? The tool hoe would work if it were long enough to get behind the blocks.

 

[rancher2]

I have three long reach wood working tools. Rake, hoe and a three prong fork type. All three are old steel heavy duty units. I welded each head in a eight foot piece of half inch black gas pipe with a tee threaded on the working end for grip. Unloaded a lot of wood with each one.

 

[Cedar Row]

Good idea. That would work!