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Home made Peavy.
By: 3000 FPS Date: February 22, 2013, 4:09 pm
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Just finished up my home made Peavy from some scrap metal in the
garage. The handle is a old section of galvanized 1" pipe.
I tried it on a piece of wood and think it will work great. I
put a small foot at the bottom to lift a log off the ground a
couple of inches so that I can cut through a log without hitting
the ground. It is not perfect and will not fit every situation
but will get the job done most of the time.
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Re: Home made Peavy.
By: Chainsawrepair Date: February 22, 2013, 8:59 pm
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Nice.
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Re: Home made Peavy.
By: rayvil01 Date: February 23, 2013, 11:39 am
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That's nice! Should work great.
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Re: Home made Peavy.
By: Chainsawrepair Date: February 23, 2013, 9:18 pm
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Just going to piggy back your thread Roger. Hope you dont mind.
I'm not a welder so I had to order some tools to make it easier
on my back too.
Fiberglass handle on the peavy
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Re: Home made Peavy.
By: 3000 FPS Date: February 23, 2013, 9:31 pm
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Fiberglass handle is nice. That should make it nice and light.
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Re: Home made Peavy.
By: Chainsawrepair Date: February 23, 2013, 9:42 pm
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[quote author=3000 FPS link=topic=1651.msg17246#msg17246
date=1361676715]
Fiberglass handle is nice. That should make it nice and light.
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It's heavy as heck IMO. Then again I have never owned one to
compare. The handle is almost bigger around then my hands can
partially wrap around them.
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Re: Home made Peavy.
By: 3000 FPS Date: February 23, 2013, 9:51 pm
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The handle did not look to be that big around in the picture.
I know I will be using mine alot when the time comes or maybe
even the wife. She likes to go out and cut firewood.
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Re: Home made Peavy.
By: Old Iron Logging Date: February 24, 2013, 11:19 am
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Our Stihl peavy is a joke. Too heavy, handle too big and hook is
useless. I put new handles in my 80 year old peavys. Now have
something useful.
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Re: Home made Peavy.
By: 3000 FPS Date: February 24, 2013, 11:59 am
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[quote author=Old Iron Logging link=topic=1651.msg17274#msg17274
date=1361726342]
Our Stihl peavy is a joke. Too heavy, handle too big and hook is
useless. I put new handles in my 80 year old peavys. Now have
something useful.
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Any pictures of those 80 year old peavys. I would be
interested in seeing them.
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Re: Home made Peavy.
By: bustedknuckles Date: February 25, 2014, 9:53 pm
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Had a log jack that a friend gave to me. He told me it didn't
work. I use my Timberjack all the time and couldn't understand
why he didn't think it was useful. That was, until I tried it.
He was right, it didn't work. The hook was designed incorrectly
and the thing wouldn't grab a log to enable lifting/rolling it.
Cut it apart and welded in a piece to correct the orientation.
NOW, it works. I'm thinking of giving it back to him. It had a
screw together handle and that was continuously coming loose so
it got a spot of weld on it too. I don't understand how
companies can manufacture junk that doesn't work. Don't they
test stuff before approving the design??
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