Engineering:Pickaroon
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A pickaroon (or picaroon) is a wood-handled (may be other materials also), metal-topped log handling tool that originates from the Alpine Region where it is called "Sappie, Zapin, Sapine".[1][2] It is distinguished from a pike pole by having a shorter handle, no metal point, and an opposite curve to its hook (toward the handle rather than away); and from both a cant hook and peavey by having a fixed hook facing its handle rather than a pivoting one facing away.
A pickaroon with a down-turned point on its hook is known as a sappie or hookaroon;[3] one with an axe blade opposite its hook an axaroon, eliminating the need to carry two tools to manage logs.[4]
See also
- Picaroons Traditional Ales – a New Brunswick brewer named after the tool. [5]
References
- ↑ "Extreme How-To Skills - 5 Extreme Tools". Popularmechanics.com. 2011-03-11. http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/reviews/outdoor-tools/how-to-handle-five-extreme-tools-pickaroon#slide-2. (dead link 11 July 2023)
- ↑ Bryant, Ralph Clement (1913). Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States (First ed.). New York: Wiley and Sons. p. 498. https://books.google.com/books?id=GRsyAAAAMAAJ&q=Logging%3B+the+Principles+and+General+Methods+of+Operation+in+the+United+States.
- ↑ "U.P. MI Pickaroons, Hookaroons & a Pike pole". http://axehistory.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=34.
- ↑ "Products". Pickaroon.com. http://www.pickaroon.com/products.htm.
- ↑ "Of Malts and Men". Sharp Magazine (Contempo Media). July 2008. https://books.google.com/books?id=RJPI3-X3PT0C.
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