Thread: anyone need cant hooks?

2 of my hooks can be joined to make a set of tongs.

with beans like that i would be inclined to use a set of sniging dogs and drive one in each end and lift them out. if you snig tehm out you risk movign your log.

just a thught.

Originally Posted by Sigidi

This is the kind of bend I am experiencing...



obviously in the beginning the pipe was straight. I've not had problems with my hook either, she is made from 150x10mm flat bar and was trimmed out with and oxy, then I cleaned it up with an angle grinder. Have lost a bolt in it's 6 year use, but 1 bolt in 6 years isn't too much to handle.The pipe is my problem and I don't wanna make it much heavier, so maybe a fillet of timber inside might be the best option rather than thicker sidewall pipe???

Looks like where you welded it was softened by welding. Denis's idea of a bit of flat or maybe angle up the back or a bit of something like flooded gum, swamp gum, or any good eucalypt for that matter that covers about 200 to 300 mm either side of the bend zone up the guts would stop that Al

Hey Carl do ya reckon I could use one to roll a 90+ ft long mountain ash log (swamp gum, tassie oak or what ever the hell you want to call it) about 1.5 to 1.8 m in diameter with it?

Originally Posted by Travis Edwards

Looks like where you welded it was softened by welding. Denis's idea of a bit of flat or maybe angle up the back or a bit of something like flooded gum, swamp gum, or any good eucalypt for that matter that covers about 200 to 300 mm either side of the bend zone up the guts would stop that Al

Travis, I dunno about the weld causing problems, she's held for nearly 6 years and I'd have thought it would have gone much earlier than this if the metal was compromised. I feel if the pipe is going to bend anywhere on a cant hook if will be right at the beginning of the hook as this is where the 'pivot' is, so could just have been a nasty bloody log - who knows, but I'm going to Carls over the weekend and after work is done, might get to play with the hook...

travis - i hooked teh hook onto a tree and hooked teh ute to teh end of teh handle and it wouldnt bend.

dont have anything to test the bending strength of teh hooks.

Lifting tongs? Now, they sound like a good idea Carl. How would they work?

Originally Posted by weisyboy

2 of my hooks can be joined to make a set of tongs.

with beans like that i would be inclined to use a set of sniging dogs and drive one in each end and lift them out. if you snig tehm out you risk movign your log.

just a thught.

That's not a bad idea, Carl. I've tried doing just that with some big decking spikes, but they weren't big enough .

At present, I have to do a lot of jerking around and the like, which moves the log quite a bit. If I can't pick them straight up, I'd like to be able to drag them straight off the end to minimise that rocking.

hilly actually called sniging tongs. ill pull out my old set (made by me grandfather) and take a picture for you.

i dont know why there is not a company in australia making all this stuff now. there are plenty of people around who would use it.

Originally Posted by weisyboy

actually called sniging tongs. .

Yep, I've been looking around (locally) for snigging tongs for a while now with no luck.
if you decide to get any of those made I'm in (depending on price)

note:...beware of googling "snigging tong" images
it comes up with "SNOGGING THONGS"

Originally Posted by underfoot

Yep, I've been looking around (locally) for snigging tongs for a while now with no luck.
if you decide to get any of those made I'm in (depending on price)

note:...beware of googling "snigging tong" images
it comes up with "SNOGGING THONGS"

Try searching for them using the term "Skidding Tongs", you'll get way more hits for them

This guy in Healesville VIC can them for you, he gets them from USA

I have a 1" tong with a 25" opening set here which belong to a mate of mine and they work really well.

Here a pic of them

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Crane truck fella's I use to transport logs for me have something similar, works really well, the boys are good enough with 'em, they can operate them without having an offsider 'attach' them to the log and take 'em off when the log is loaded while still standing at the crane controls.

I also got a price from amberwood for their logrite aluminium cant hooks, says he will guarantee then against human bending and replace any that do bend. Said they have only had one bend here in Aus when a fella used a ute on the end of it to get extra oomph and they replaced it anyway.

Originally Posted by Sigidi

Crane truck fella's I use to transport logs for me have something similar, works really well, the boys are good enough with 'em, they can operate them without having an offsider 'attach' them to the log and take 'em off when the log is loaded while still standing at the crane controls.

I also got a price from amberwood for their logrite aluminium cant hooks, says he will guarantee then against human bending and replace any that do bend. Said they have only had one bend here in Aus when a fella used a ute on the end of it to get extra oomph and they replaced it anyway.

Was it a guy called Carl by any chance

Originally Posted by Sigidi

I also got a price from amberwood for their logrite aluminium cant hooks, says he will guarantee then against human bending and replace any that do bend. Said they have only had one bend here in Aus when a fella used a ute on the end of it to get extra oomph and they replaced it anyway.

They work good too Al, I got to try them in the amberwood yards while tailing out for a day looking at a woodmizer and then when richie came down to cut my blackwood, we gave em a good workout on one big ugly blackwood butt.

Looking for tongs look up log tongs or log lifting tongs on google. think that mob that makes the log trolleys you had the thread up for Al had them listed. have seen a heap of those log lifter dragger things since you put that link up.

I've seen them advertised in a "Sherrill" cataloge from the States.Vermeer ,where I get the cataloge from, would stock/ get them in.