Build Three Homemade Timber Tools

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Diagram: Log tong.
Diagram: Log tong.
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Though some may not consider it a tool, this piece of headgear offers protection against falling limbs and branches, flying debris, and the potentially damaging staccato noise of a chain saw engine hard at work.
Though some may not consider it a tool, this piece of headgear offers protection against falling limbs and branches, flying debris, and the potentially damaging staccato noise of a chain saw engine hard at work.
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Like the ice seller's tool, this device uses mechanical advantage to keep a grip on the work . . . but its design goes the old block tongs one better because it's meant to be used with a single hand.
Like the ice seller's tool, this device uses mechanical advantage to keep a grip on the work . . . but its design goes the old block tongs one better because it's meant to be used with a single hand.
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Diagram: Pry bar peavey.
Diagram: Pry bar peavey.
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Diagram: Safety helmet.
Diagram: Safety helmet.
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Like the ice seller's tool, this device uses mechanical advantage to keep a grip on the work . . . but its design goes the old block tongs one better because it's meant to be used with a single hand.
Like the ice seller's tool, this device uses mechanical advantage to keep a grip on the work . . . but its design goes the old block tongs one better because it's meant to be used with a single hand.

Learn how to make these homemade timber tools for harvesting lumber on your homestead. (See the timber tool photos and diagrams in the image gallery.)

Harvesting wood is hard work . . . especially for the
occasional cutter who–like many of us–can’t
justify the purchase of costly laborsaving equipment when

  • Published on Jul 1, 1985
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