Pickaroon

Pickaroon

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.

Pickaroon
Two types of hookaroons
"Picaroon" redirects here. For the racehorse, see Picaroon (horse).

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]

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  1. [1]
    "Extreme How-To Skills - 5 Extreme Tools". Popularmechanics.com. 2011-03-11. Retrieved 2018-07-26. (dead link 11 July 2023)
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    "U.P. MI Pickaroons, Hookaroons & a Pike pole". Archived from the original on 2014-12-26. Retrieved 2012-10-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. [4]
    "Products". Pickaroon.com. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  5. [5]
    "Of Malts and Men". Sharp Magazine. Contempo Media. July 2008. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
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