Made a timber jack

dee_veloper

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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It got the job done :)
 

AKoz

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

sonny580

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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

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

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I copied the shape of a different logging tool

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

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