peavy handle

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my handle broke today anyone aware of a place I can just buy the handle if not any instruction on make a homemade one
thx
 
As mentioned, House Handle is a good source, Seymour Tools, the new owners of OP Link Handles, may be another one--OP Link was well known for their handles, though I have not dealt with their successor personally. Peavey also sells their own replacement handles. http://store.peaveymfg.com/cart/category/2004/Replacement_Handles/1/ The problem with making a peavey handle from scratch is finding good wood--the larger sections needed are considerably harder to locate than the smaller ones taken by, say, hammers. I've made a number from ironwood (hop hornbeam) but it's from stuff that grows on our land and so I can get it ahead of time and season it properly. You can certainly cut something green, shape it with a drawknife or similar, and mount it, but the chances are better than average it will split while drying, and something the size of a peavey handle takes a couple of years to dry properly if air-dried. Of course, that's not necessarily a show-stopper--we've got a peavey at home that we've used for 20+ years with a split handle after Gramp replaced a broken one with a hand-cut green beech one and the wood checked while drying. The traditional material, of course, is hickory, but as noted, beech, ash, osage orange, ironwood, elm, downy serviceberry, and lots of others can be used in a pinch, particularly if you're not maxing out the peavy in use. Many newer peaveys come with aluminum handles--my father has had one for several years now and it's held up fine.
Seymour Tools
 
You coild also try Traditional Wood Worker out of Texas. Web site WWW.Traditionalwoodworker.comm. They have differant lenghts with prices.
 
They're basically the same, Russ--typically a peavey has a spike on the end and is used in the woods to lift, roll and move logs or whole trees, whereas the cant hook has a lip on the end and is used in a sawmill to roll and position cants, In sawmill parlance, a cant is a section of log with one or more cuts taken off the sides to square it up and remove bark prior to taking off boards.
 
I tend to be on the cheap side and the last one I replaced I used a good old fence post I had laying around. I also make my own Can't hooks and many have steel handles on the ones I make
 
I bought mine at a hardware store. I have also seen them at the small engine place where I by my Chain saw and related equipment.
 
Peavey Manufacturing, been around a long time, good products etc. If yours is a Peavey Manufacturing product, I'd venture a guess its the best place to source a replacement handle, seeing they make the product, the handle should fit correctly.
Peavey Manufacturing
 
I make mine from a piece of straight grain hickory, hog nosed cant hook. When my handle is the right size I then scrape it with a piece of broken glass.
 
Now I have two of them and they are a very powerful tool. I had no idea there were five sizes. You can move a whole lot of a big log with not a whole lot of struggle. The guy who invented this tool..that was his last name.
 

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