And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The peavey has it's roots in Maine, where Joseph Peavey modified a "cant hook" by adding a solidly attached ring with a vertically moving, sharpened hook. There are many of the Peavey family here in my hometown of Patten, Maine. One of Joseph's relatives here invented a power saw to harvest ice on a nearby stream fed pond. "Blue Ice", they called it due to the water flowing continuously while being formed. In my yute, I recall watching them use it. That machine sat there for years after the icehouse closed and I would look it over every time I stopped in to fly fish in the pond. Don't know where it ever went. If you're ever in the area, it's worth an afternoon to visit the Lumberman's Museum. https://lumbermensmuseum.org/
Cool! Thanks- I'll definitely make sure to visit that. I'm currently forging a cant hook copy from the original pioneer days. So far, I'd estimate a smith back then worked an entire day making the collar with pivot & the log hook. Thanks again- never heard of that place
I like mine better. It has a flat plate on the back side so that when you roll the log it can raise the log up a few inches off the ground. It sure saves a lot of chains.
Very handy tool, but mine had the old wooden handle.
ReplyDeleteThe peavey has it's roots in Maine, where Joseph Peavey modified a "cant hook" by adding a solidly attached ring with a vertically moving, sharpened hook.
ReplyDeleteThere are many of the Peavey family here in my hometown of Patten, Maine.
One of Joseph's relatives here invented a power saw to harvest ice on a nearby stream fed pond.
"Blue Ice", they called it due to the water flowing continuously while being formed.
In my yute, I recall watching them use it.
That machine sat there for years after the icehouse closed and I would look it over every time I stopped in to fly fish in the pond.
Don't know where it ever went.
If you're ever in the area, it's worth an afternoon to visit the Lumberman's Museum.
https://lumbermensmuseum.org/
Cool! Thanks- I'll definitely make sure to visit that. I'm currently forging a cant hook copy from the original pioneer days. So far, I'd estimate a smith back then worked an entire day making the collar with pivot & the log hook.
DeleteThanks again- never heard of that place
I like mine better. It has a flat plate on the back side so that when you roll the log it can raise the log up a few inches off the ground. It sure saves a lot of chains.
ReplyDeleteA regular peavey at Northern Tools is in the $30+ range & that one did a great job for me.
ReplyDeleteThat is probably the only tool I will never need or have. But I'm only 60, who knows?
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