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2. List of timber framing tools - Wikipedia

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   Tools include dividers, axes, chisel and mallet, beam cart, pit saw, trestles, and bisaigue. The men talking may be holding a story pole and rule (or walking cane). Shear legs are hoisting a timber. Below, the sticks on the log are winding sticks used to align the ends of a timber. Tools used in traditional timber framing date back thousands of ...

3. Cant hook - Wikipedia

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   Cant hook. A cant hook or pike or a hooked pike is a traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook called a dog at one end, used for handling and turning logs and cants, especially in sawmills. A cant dog has a blunt end, or possibly small teeth for friction. A peavey or peavey hook is similar but has a ...

4. Lumberjack - Wikipedia

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   Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers. The work was difficult, dangerous, intermittent, low ...

5. Logging - Wikipedia

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   Logging is the beginning of a supply chain that provides raw material for many products societies worldwide use for housing, construction, energy, and consumer paper products. Logging systems are also used to manage forests, reduce the risk of wildfires, and restore ecosystem functions, [2] though their efficiency for these purposes has been ...

6. Hook (hand tool) - Wikipedia

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   Hook (hand tool) A hook is a hand tool used for securing and moving loads. It consists of a round wooden handle with a strong metal hook about 20 cm (8 inches) long projecting at a right angle from the center of the handle. The appliance is held in a closed fist with the hook projecting between two fingers.

7. Cable logging - Wikipedia

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   Cable grue Larix 3T, installed on agricultural tractor. Cable logging, also referred to as skyline logging, is a logging method primarily used on the West Coast of North America with yarder, loaders, and grapple yarders, but also in Europe (Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, France, Italy). The cables can be rigged in several configurations.