How to make a Log Peavey
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- A log peavey is a simple tool that helps you roll a log over. It can be used to roll a log from one place to another or just flipping it over to finish a cut with a chainsaw when cutting firewood. One of my most enjoyable things to do is making my own tools. Of course you can go and buy this tool at a farm store, but consider making one. You will not only end up with a unique tool that YOU made, you will gain many skills along the way. In this project I show you start to finish each step I take in making this great tool. Some of the steps include cutting, grinding, drilling and forging metal, setting up a makeshift wheel barrow forge and shaping a wood handle on a shaving horse with a draw knife. At the end of the video, I demonstrate the peavey by rolling around a couple of walnut logs. Show your support by subscribing to my channel, leaving a comment and sharing my video. The more interaction I get the more videos I will post.
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I like this guy, a very skilled, young, ambitious individual, don't see much of that anymore, encouraging!
You certainly are a craftsman.....and a great teacher.
Very informative video.....well done!
GFD472 Thanks, glad you liked it. This video hasn't got a ton of views but it is one of my favorites and a fun project.
A wheel barrow forge, impressive. I have actually needed a peavey my whole life and didn't know they existed, thanks for the enlightenment.
John Burnett You're welcome!
Thanks Joe, glad you liked it. It was a fun project that incorporated a lot of techniques. I've got some more tool projects similar to this one in the line up. Thanks again.
Absolutely amazing. My father also used to make tools when he needed something that did not exist. Most men today would not know what a log peavey is let alone how to make one. Creating a forge is really starting from scratch. So, you are on the east coast. I am going to guess the state of Maine.
peggyt1243 Thank you again, I'm glad you are enjoying the videos. It was a fun project and I was very happy with the video. Hope to see more of your comments in the future.
you have many skills. all are good. any guy can build this peavey by just watching you.i hope to make it myself. i need one as i am chainsaw carver.
Thanks Keith. I was hoping most would feel the same. I wanted to design something that most people could make as long as they are handy and have the tools which are basic. And most of the tools could be substituted for others. The forge is the most complicated part but all it's just a wheel barrow with a blower, a hair dryer will work fine. Coal can be purchased or picked up along train tracks. Let me know if you make the peavey, I'd love to see it.
I like the way you think. Keep it simple and reuse stuff . there is nothing more satisfying than using your head and crafting something with your hands. it will be something that you will have for many years
+1995dresser Thanks
Well done in every way .... don’t stop. Cheers Y.
Awesome share! Your talent, mentoring, wheelbarrow forge, take-dowm spokeshave bench, and practical approach to the project = my becoming a subscriber.
Very well done Jason! At "this time" I do not have a need for a log peavey, but I can see a definite need for it as my shop and talents grow. Your instruction, however, is excellent and much appreciated--thank you!!!
Not sure who Jason is, But thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
Sorry about that!!! I don't know where that came from neither. I did enjoy you video and your style of teaching.
Nice job! Loved the quick made barrow forge , great idea.
I like your “getter done” approach.
I can't believe I haven't stumbled upon this channel until now! so many people think making UA-cam videos is just as easy as turning on the camera and just doing whatever you were going to do. But you executed it to a whole new level! The narration is clear and concise with no hesitations, the camera angles are perfectly placed and nothing is drawn out more than necessary.
The methodical way in which you work and talk makes you a joy to watch to me. This is what DIY channels should be!
Fun to watch someone who knows his tools and enjoys using them. Looks like a serious peavey, too!
Thank you very much "Mr. Craftsman". You are "old school". Passing down your excellent skills is much appreciated.-Jose
Thanks for watching
Very good, very clear, thanks for such a helpful video
Thank you for sharing, you just saved me about a $100
To craft somthing like this is like being part ofthe tool you have made. Very good job. A real craftsman.
very practical process to making this peavey, we both use same anvil - piece of railroad track, great idea for a forge, really enjoyed watching this skilled guy create this log peavey. Thank you.
Very nicely done. An important tool for people who process their own firewood (like me).
I like that you kept power tools to a minimum to give us a glimpse into old world workmanship.
GET IN THERE...! @ 20:23, omg Bet this will last longer than most similar tools great quality. I would have to call a couple of friends to make this because of, table saw, mig but thanks for giving me something to strive for
You could get around the table saw, a circular saw will work or you could use a wheel barrow handle, you could buy it or use an old one if you have it. Not sure how to get around not having the welder, you'd have to simplify the design, regardless, thanks for watching.
use 2 12v car batteries and stick welder setup.
Incredible work! Really enjoyed this! I would love to make one, only missing the welder!
Nicely done. Might I suggest a couple of washers on the hinge bolt on each side of the hook? They'll act like bearings/ wear plates.
I'm also impressed by a wheel barrow forge. Hot stuff. Awesome video!
1962vid It's a simple but effective solution to basic forging.
Awesome video. You definitely have skills most will never possess.
My old peavey fell apart yesterday, 50+years old, thanks for the video!
I worked in a logging camp in BC Canada for a few years. This particular camp was a lumber wet sort, where the logs were dropped in the water and boomed up by type and size etc. The log wranglers used a peavey pole, long pole with a pointed end to stick in the log and direct it , they also used log cants to roll logs without a pointed end. I think what you have there is a combination of both the cant and peavey, none the less , it works great and you did a fine job of making it.
+Buddy Vibe Thank you
Useful tool that should last a life time.
thanks for watching.
Love the dirt forge. I made a brake drum forge but this looks just as good.
Great video. Forge was awesome!
Thanks for a great video. I am working on making one similar now. Great learning video.
Good job!
Looks excellent
i think your father must've started teaching you very young, it looks like his job was well done as well...he crafted a fine young man .....too bad this isn't the family practice of every family...this proves the extreme value of family we have lost..well done young man...keep going and never leave your tools for a desk.
Thank you and yes, he did show me how to do a lot of stuff, but following someone's example and genetics has a lot to do with it. He is self employed as well and is the kind of person who likes projects. So it comes natural. As far as a desk, the only desk I sit at is when I edit my videos. Thanks for watching.
This was a great watch... Im looking at making my own Peavey & its through my investigations I found your channel & I must say your a very clever fella.
The prices they'd like us to pay for some of these types of equipment is outrageous considering how cheaply you can make your very own, not to mention the pride you'd get every time you used it... Nice work & keep the hand made tools vids coming as im sure they'll benefit thousands if not millions...
A Big thumbs up from me.
Impressive. Made a DIY pickeroon/hookaroon today...might have to try this next. Great forge idea. Definitely gotta try that! Thanks for the video. Great job!
Thank you for linking these older videos! I haven't seen this one before.
Thanks for checking it out.
Nice. Cant hooks & peavies traditionally have large diameter wood handles so they will float if dropped in the mill pond or off a log raft by loggers.
Which are not issues for anyone on using them on land.
But they still sell that danged giant awkward handle model everywhere.
If you make your own, might as well use smaller hardwood or metal tube for the handle, whatever works best for you.
Nice job, don't worry about those who would rather go to the store and buy something rather than make it themselves, maybe they lack the skills to do the job. There is a lot of satisfaction in building a well made item whether metal or wood. I'm a lifelong DIY type and have built a lot of items for my woodshop, including rolling bases for many of my stationary tools to be able to move them around the shop or outside when weather permits. Just last week I made a pair of wrenches to change spindles on a
General spindle sander I found on Craigslist that came without the needed wrenches. The company is not good about answering E mails so I decided to make my own, they work perfectly. Can't use standard wrenches because of clearance issues. Keep up the good work and always work safe. God Bless.
21:07 nice hammer there! My old mentor would yell at me every time I used a crescent wrench as a hammer but I still do it every once in a while. This was a wonderful video and I'd like to try this project someday. Some great ideas like the simple dirt forge.
Awesome video man, great job
Wonderful!
You are definitely a craftsman. Good work dude
Holy Toledo. This is awesome.
That was really impressive! I used a Peavy for the first time this week and was astonished at the leverage. I was in Peavy Arboretum in Corvallis, named for the man who invented this awesome tool.
great job
Outstanding . Good Older Timer. It's way out . Very loyal. Wood & Metals Show best in Time Awesome" Make as Time well done..friend yoda
To help you out when screwing the spike in use a little soap on the thread it helps as a lubricant
Fascinating
Very well designed, done and teached.
Great how to video. Informative. I love the idea of the furnace!
Gidday mate, man, that is a really good bloody video, simple plain english easy to follow instructions, you get 11 out of 10 stars from me pal.
Cheers from Australia
Awesome video. I have been thinking about making my own peavey and this video will be a huge help if I ever get to it.
I wish i had seen this before I bought one. I would have made my own. Mine was cheap and decently made but that one you made was way better than mine. Nice work.
Nice tutorial. Thank you for sharing it.
I hope you'll share anothers like this one :)
Just found your video and after watching it, I am subscribing to your channel to see what other great videos you have. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with all to become more self sufficient.
+Tim Cooper Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy my videos. This was an especially enjoyable project.
Impressive! Inspiring! As stated by others, you are a true craftsman and instructor. Video production was very well done. Thank you for restoring my faith in the creative and industrious nature of mankind. Great!!
Great video! Love the guide through the different processes you used
+Dylan Reilly Thanks
So impressed... Great project and build. Thank you for sharing!!!
I have no need for this but I really want one now
damasydia If anything, they look really cool!
This video made my day. Great job.
you did a great job here. Thanks for sharing.
+Tamer Khadre Thanks
Excellent. May start mine tomorrow. Thanks
Nice video your wheel barrow forge is dope !!
A very good video good instructions and this is just what I was looking for on my first search I do have a good 5 ft long handle and I'll be using that but wow what a great job you did!
I subscribed to your channel because I figure there's going to be a lot more stuff and I'm going to be interested in so thanks for sharing your ideas!
Take care my friend and stay well!
Oh yeah, I love to see a person use a file the right way by just pushing it to file and not back and forth to clog to file up, but there is no wrong way to do anything as long as you're doing it so I didn't mean to be a smart-aleck and thank you again.
A must have in the woods. Very nice job. I'd say the design is perfect. I wouldn't change a thing. Thumbing up.
Thanks Dale, Glad you enjoyed the video.
Any way you can do a video on making your take-down shave horse ? Also what general area do you live in ? I like your videos and your demeanor. Thanks
Dale S
I'm planning on doing a video on it sooner or later. Just not sure how to go about it. I don't exactly want two shaving horses but I don't know if just showing and talking about how to make it is enough, what do you think? I'm on the east coast, about 5 hours from the ocean. Mostly hardwoods, oak, hickory, poplar, walnut, etc with a good amount of yellow pine mixed in. It's nice because there is a wide variety of woods to use that are not commonly available in other parts of the country. Thank you for the compliments, I hope you enjoy all my videos to come. Feel free to suggest future topics anytime.
Just discovered you’re channel and l have subscribed.
I was very impressed with you making that tool. Top job indeed. Now you have inspired me to make one for myself. I will be watching more of you’re posts from now on.😀
Nice video and nice peavey! Some power tool work hand tool work and some welding ! Keep 'em coming! JOE
I enjoyed this video, I like how you take a practical approach to your project without a lot of fluff. I'll subscribe if I see that you are producing more great how to's and interesting things related to homesteading. Keep it up! While I have never made or even used a peavey with a point on the end, I do have a lot of experience using what we here in Georgia call a cant hook, which is similar except no point on the end. I have two, both commercial made, one 5 ft, and one 30 in. They work great on logs, and I have even used them to rotate wooden fence posts already set in the ground, and to line-up predrilled wooden poles set in place for shed and Pole-barn supports, etc. Thanks for your efforts in producing this video!
+Donald Garmon Cant hook is what they are called most everywhere as far as I know. it pretty much does the same thing as the peavey but the point comes in handy, although for portability a short handled can't hook is better most of the time.
+The Homestead Craftsman the difference between a cant hook and a peavy is the point.
That’s a dope shirt
Trick with gloves. I've learned this from experience. Get gloves that come off with immediately with a hard flick of the wrist.
Great work,love your workshop!
That is freezing awesome!!!!
Well done, needed one of these thank you for listing this!
Thank you for watching and subscribing, let me know if you end up making one. I'm putting together a website, and I'm going to have a page with subscribers projects. Let me know if I can be of any help.
fantastic. I subbed off of this film. thank, you.
Thanks for the great video. Love the idea of building a forge in a wheelbarrow like that. Will have to give it a try. I think I'll spend $50 on a jack instead of building one but skillz are skillz. I've certainly spent hours and hours toiling to make a widget that would have cost only a few $ on Amazon so I understand the drive to do this yourself. Great work.
***** Thank you, making anything is fun, making your own tools is great. Of course in the time that it takes to build something like this I could have made enough money to buy a crate of them, but making it is fun, my skill set grow and I get to make a video about it! Thanks for watching and the comment.
Well done tutorial! Thanks!
Excellent vid, I liked the thorough explanation and the practical approach taken. I am really enjoying your vid's and am looking forward to seeing the back catalogue.
hasdrubal121 Glad your liking the videos, there's over 50 videos now and more to come so you should be entertained for a while. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for sharing, I'm looking forward to them.
Awesome job!!
+M Mac thanks
+The Homestead Craftsman I've been trying to learn those skills you showed in this Vid. I really liked the wood working stool you were using for the handle. I need to find one of those.
+M Mac If you are pretty handy, it's a fairly simple tool to make. Here's a video I did if you'd like more information on it. It's called a shaving horse, along with other names.... you use tools such as draw knives and spoke shaves but also come in handy for other applications as well as a vice or clamp. Here's the link. ua-cam.com/video/egWASf3b6R0/v-deo.html Continue learning, that is one of the most enjoyable parts.
Great video. Thanks
Well done!
+Larry Hampton Thank you
Excellent
Very impressive, thanks.
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Nice work !
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this and love how creative you are. I really like that you enjoy doing something yourself rather than just go buy one. So would you make one of these to sell or did you just do it for your own pleasure?
Melody Capehart Medina I already commented, but I think I didn't hit the reply button. My answer was, I made it because I wanted one, so basically made it for fun, although I do use it, and seem to be doing so more and more lately.
that was highly informative!!!
Very cool! Congratulations from Brazil!!!
add a removable foot at the back of the peavy and you have a very useful log jack too.
hey, you have plans for that shave horse? it's super nice the way it comes apart.
inspiring! many thanks
Very neat tool. Sure makes you appreciate all that goes into making something. You'll have it for a very long time for sure. Could you use just wood to forge the metal I stead of using coal?
Love2boat92 Yes, you could, but it would need to be bone dry, in small pieces, fan on high and you would use a ton of it........ or you could make charcoal, which would burn better, coal burns hot longer, wood at that temp burns up really fast. You could also use store bought charcoal. I just got my coal from the train tracks.
The Homestead Craftsman Oh ok. I was wondering.
AWESOME !!!
thank you
Awesome. Thanks for posting all your videos. Very reminiscent of old school PBS craftsman shows. Good quality insights, projects, instruction, and results. Thanks. Glad I found your channel.
MrGunPilot Well I'll take that as a compliment! Thanks for watching.
Yes, of course is was meant as a compliment. Sorry if it seemed to imply otherwise.
MrGunPilot Oh no, I took it as one right off the bat, New Yankee Workshop is one of my favorite shows. I'd like to do some videos in his style of showing an old piece of furniture and then making a new version. I've actually bought a few old pieces for this exact purpose, just have not done the videos yet. Also, I noticed your little icon picture, not sure if it's yours or just a photo, but I Have a 54 CJ3B, it's a long term project, but a fun one. I've had it for 11ish years. Bought it when I was 16 for $800.
The Homestead Craftsman Yep, it was Roy Underhill, Woodwright's Shop is the show that I was thinking about. Really cool shows from back in the day. Many things about your presentations remind me of these shows, however you include modern techniques and tools yet still evoke vintage craftsman style & quality results. Just right!
Yes, the icon photo is my old Jeep. It's a 1956 DJ3A, sitting on a CJ3A chassis, with many other twists and modifications to make it more dependable and capable on the trail. Although not a woodworking project, it definitely reflects a lot of "repurposed" components. If interested, shoot me an email and I'll chat it with you. Lot's of fun.
I have wanted a peavey for a long time but did not like the prices. Now I will be making one. I like the forge so I will be using one like it also. You said the hook was going to hit on the exposed end of the handle. What happened? Did you not measure twice and cut once? LOL I like your plan for that though. I don't have a long bolt like that, I may use some round bar. I made an anvil with 2 pieces of rail welded upside down to a plate to have a large flat area. I also have another piece to use as you did. I will have to figure something out as to how to make the handle. I did subscribe!
lol; a few of the basic's love it. chop saw w/ metal cutting blade, grinder various hand tools etc.. absolutely classic: ) now if i could get my wife to believe that >> O.o
I think of them as being basic tools (for people who have stuff) for those living in town, they might not even have a roll of duct tape. The miter saw is just one for wood, with a $5 blade, a grinder can be had from Harbour Frieght for $10-15. Most of the other tools can be improvised, in the end it's not a precise tool, and can be quite hideous and still function. Thanks for watching and subscribing.
The Homestead Craftsman just the way you say it makes it sound so reasonable, like honey i need both the compound miter and the chop saw dear can't you see? with the full expectation of innocence that she will.. Loveit!
yes it is a precise tool and its absolutely wonderful to see! your brain! how it works. it takes me back about 40 years or so when i was your age.
You dont see a fine precision instrument like that nowadays very often and not very often back then either. my you macgyver.
I would have loved to have had you in my class back in my teaching days a voc ed instructor. bet you aced every test and tried not to show it but i can see it. thanks for bringing this worn out tired man a smile just when i needed it.
Nice skills and build. I don't think though you can qualify a welder and table saw as a "basic" tool. I do alot of woodworking, so the table saw is covered, but never learned to weld so don't own one. I do have a nephew who does so I usually bring a six pack and get my welding taken care of.
True, but you don't need the table saw, you could figure your way around that. As for the welder, most will have to go your route, but I think most people who are doing any level of timber work or are the kind of person that would need a log peavey is going to have a welder for fixing equipment. At this point I can't imagine not having one. I grab it often, it's a hobart 140. Just a small wire welder, but very handy. Also have a hobart plasma cutter, which makes for a nice pair. Thanks for watching!
Dude. That was absolutely amazing. Your video and delivery of information was nothing short of harmonious.
I am a volunteer in paradise ca. Originally from Sacramento .
I fall trees and offer firewood for free to the Paradise/Magalia community.
I will be in Sacramento next weekend to make this which you shared. With my father.
Thank you. For you.
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Tool in action. Used to help others.
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great job at make that peavley. you should make them and sell them.
Thanks.....but there's too much time in them, especially when you can buy a nice one for not much that will work great.
Do you know what is the best one for not to much?
Nope, I would just go to some farm store and see what they have. People seem to like the Stihl. I'd go for a cant hook, it's most likely what your looking for. Google for the difference.
OK thanks
I wanna be you when I grow up :) So good.
I am related to the inventor of this tool. I think that is worth noting :)