From Hatchet to Walking Cane

JohnRippert · #51 03-24-2021, 10:02 PM

Hmmmmmm. Just so happens........

Spajohn · #52 03-24-2021, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by beaverislander

For over a year I have kept coming back and looking at this beautiful project, wondering if I could pull it off. Today I bought a 20 oz. Vaughn hatchet hammer head.

This looks like a pickaroon, a tool used in the timber industry.
Google it and you'll see.

tops · #53 03-24-2021, 10:50 PM

A brick masons hammer might be easier too work with than a hatchet. Larry

lihpster · #54 03-25-2021, 02:06 AM

I have one of the hatchets, but it was my grandfather's and it is still handled and tight, so no on that.

But this?

merl67 · #55 03-30-2021, 08:54 PM

I picked up a brick masons hammer Saturday I've already done a bit of reshaping. I was originally going to round the hammer head, but I think I will remove it and about an inch more below it then curve
the remaining part up. Then round over the entire handle.

Frank46 · #56 04-04-2021, 04:59 AM

Hookaroon/pickaroon been a lot of them on ytube. All start with an axe and you grind or cutaway anything that doesn't look like a hookaroon. Have a rather large tree that is dying in stages,Usually leaving me with the cleanup job. usually tie a rope to the larger pieces and haul them away to the burn pile. So now can get the smaller pieces. So bought a "Council Tools" hookaroon. Smaller pieces go in the bucket on my front end loader,and on to the burn pile. Frank

hdfinder47 · #57 07-24-2021, 06:12 PM

I used what was called a vintage roofing axe. Got the handle from the yard implement section at Lowes and had a local woodworker taper it and mount the head. Didn't come out quite as nice as the OPs but looks pretty good. I don't need it (yet) but would not attempt to board a plane with it for fear of confiscation.