Cant Hook

Cant Hook

A cant hook is a traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook at one end, used for handling and moving logs. While similar to a peavey, the cant hook has a blunt tip, often with teeth.

A logging tool description from the Lumberman's Museum at Patten, Maine, reads in part: "A cant dog or cant hook was used for lifting, turning, and prying logs when loading sleds and on the drive. At first, a swivel hook on a pole with nothing to hold it in position was used. This was called a swing dingle or pom poodler. In 1858, Joseph Peavey, a blacksmith in Stillwater, Maine, made a rigid clasp to encircle the cant dog handle with the hook on one side. It moved up and down, but not sideways. All loggers have used it ever since."

While this tool has its origins in the logging industry, many arborists, tree care professionals, land owners and portable sawmill operators now use cant hooks for moving logs and timber.

External links

* [http://www.ruralheritage.com/logging_camp/peavey.htm Cant Hook or Peavey?] — A great article on the history of the cant hook and peavy.
* [http://www.ruralheritage.com/logging_camp/lingo.htm Logging Lingo] — Here's a quick brush-up on the lingo used by loggers, with fair warning that terminology differs from one region to another.


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  • Cant hook — A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. [U. S.] Bartlett. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • cant hook — cant′ hook [[t]kænt[/t]] n. mac a pole with a movable iron hook, used for manipulating logs • Etymology: 1840–50 …   From formal English to slang

  • cant hook — n. [see CANT2] a heavy wooden lever with a blunt tip and a hinged hook near the end: used by lumbermen in handling logs: cf. PEAVEY …   English World dictionary

  • cant hook — noun a peavey having a hook instead of a spike; used for handling logs • Hypernyms: ↑peavey, ↑peavy, ↑cant dog, ↑dog hook * * * noun Etymology: cant (II) : a wooden lever resembling a peavey but having a …   Useful english dictionary

  • cant hook — /kant/ a wooden lever with a movable iron hook and a blunt, often toothed tip near the lower end, used chiefly for grasping and canting, or turning over logs. Also called cant dog. [1840 50] * * * …   Universalium

  • cant hook — /ˈkænt hʊk/ (say kant hook) noun a hook with a grip at one end, used for grasping and canting or turning over logs, etc …  

  • cant hook — noun A traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook at one end, used for handling and moving logs …   Wiktionary

  • cant hook — noun a hinged metal hook at the end of a long handle, used for gripping and rolling logs …   English new terms dictionary

  • cant hook — noun Etymology: 3cant Date: circa 1848 a lumberman s lever that has a pivoting hooked arm and a blunt often toothed metal cap at one end compare peavey …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • cant-hook — …   Useful english dictionary

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