Has anyone heard of a tool called a Log Dog? I'm in town, and a friend in the boonies is looking for such a tool, but I don't know what it actually is. It is used in the handling of downed trees, as the name implies, but other than that I don't know what it is.

-- John Fritz (aeon30@hotmail.com), May 19, 2001

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Its a metal hinge hook. picture ice tongs with a heavy tool handle attached to the grip of one tong. You open it up and fit it around the log, as you pull on the handle it clamps in and you roll the log. Back it off to loosen the bite, reseat the tongs and roll it again. The tool man at our local flea market sells em in th 20 to 30 dollar range.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 19, 2001.

It's also known a s a "Cantdog" or a "Peavey". They are very common up here in Maine. Good Luck.

-- Scott Jones (mummj@nemaine.com), May 19, 2001.

Here is a site that specializes in logging stuff: http://www.madsens1.com/miscaxe.htm

The "Pevies" are on this page if everything works out OK...

-- Willy Allen (willyallen2@yahoo.com), May 19, 2001.

Don't know if this answers the question but... As far as I know a log dog isn't a canthook. It is a bar with two pointed ears in the same direction. It was used to hold a log in position to be worked (such as to be split or hewn). Several years ago a local logger had me make up a half dozen for him with, as I recall, 16" between the ears. Any blacksmith should be able to make them up. Both ends are simply pointed, then the length of ear desired bent over on both ends in the same direction. Normally, to use them, logs were laid on transverse logs (horizon to the log to be worked) and then a dog driven into the transverse log on both sides and the log to be worked.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), May 27, 2001.