Made a timber jack

[dee_veloper]

I had an old bent pry bar that wasn't getting much use. So i scrounged some materials out of my scrap bucket and found enough to make a crude timber jack with a cant hook.



The metal thickness was 1/8 in so I used some 5/64 7014 with my DC inverter welder.



I found that the length of the handle is a little too short for much leverage, so I use a pipe as a cheater bar.

It lifts a 1' diameter log pretty easily.



On larger logs like this 1.5' diameter, I removed the jack leg and only used the hook. I couldn't roll it because it's about 60 feet long and in a bunch of brush. I could only rock the log back and forth in an attempt to "scoot" it up on to a 4x4.



It got the job done

 

[sonny580]

Glad you posted that idea cause I need to make one of them myself! lol! Turnin even small logs on my sawmill is a bear at times!

 

[AKoz]

I know this is a welding site but I made a no-weld cant hook and log lifter here.

Homemade Cant Hook and Optional Log Lifter

Homemade Cant Hook and Optional Log Lifter: A Cant Hook is a tool used to roll a log. A Cant Hook is great for handling logs, cants and beams around the sawmill and rolling logs when cutting firewood. I use it exclusively for the latter. For example you cut half way through a log, and to avoi…

www.instructables.com

 

[sonny580]

I like that idea too! They can be made several different ways and will do the job. If you make your own it can be as heavy or light as you need for the log size you are working. My biggest is 18" and not many of them. Mostly 8 to 14 right now. bigger ones on down the road are possible.

 

[CADplans]

I DIYed one last year,,
I used a propane-air TurboTorch to heat the 1" solid bar so that i could bend it,,

I copied the shape of a different logging tool

Also in the pic is another DIY tool I believe it is called a pickaroon,,

 

[sonny580]

Great job on that one too! WOW you guys have some great ideas on making these!