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Pros & Cons
Pros
The council tool is excellent at dragging the biggest and heaviest logs. The fiskars is the best for lifting wood above your waist due to its light weight and sharpness. Use it for moving logs, moving wood from ground to splitter and also emptying tra... Read More
Using gentle swings with the arm and just a little wrist adjustment does the job. Not at all fatiguing. But my shoulders were certainly sore after heaving rounds around with it.
It comes as an unfinished wood handle with red powder coated head. Lacquer wood finish with a yellow painted head and handle. The only negative is the coating on the handle.
Cons
Purchased this tool after much deliberation and was super disappointed. Broke on 6th hit into split firewood disappointing. Not 100% sure it would stick into a freshly baked loaf of bread.
Highlights
Quality
However i have had no problems with the quality of the device using it on seven cords of firewood
Excellent german quality steel head hooked just enough to drag large logs
Honestly at first i was not impressed with the council tool due to it being dull
Using gentle swings with the arm and just a little wrist adjustment does the job not at all fatiguing
Competitiveness
I have one of these and a fiskar
I work at a sawmill and ive moved 400lb logs with only this tool
I bought three different hookaroonsmade by council tool usa 44made by fiskar finland 42made by ochsenkopf aka ox head germany 6... Read More
It’s like a tool from gränsfors bruks now
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great, easy, good, little and made. - Our AI detects a high amount of irrelevant reviews for this listing. A number of the reviews included in this product may belong to other variations, editions or versions that may not be representative of the current product being sold.
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 29.3% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 307 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 10 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Have lost grip strength so need to wrap handle with string to keep from slipping when wearing gloves
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Not a fan of the painted end of the handle because it’s kind of slick but that’s easy enough to fix with some sanding
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It’s like a tool from gränsfors bruks now
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you want to try this yourself i used an angle grinder with a knotted wire brush for the metal part and a scraper for the handle
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I used chemical paint stripper and a hand wire brush for what remained
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Then i handsanded the entire handle smooth and rubbed in some linseed oil all over the whole thing
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
To get them into my tractor loader i was manually rolling them over to the loader then tipping them into the loader which required further adjusting to keep them from tipping out
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Like a fool i ended up spraining both of my wrists pretty bad which took me out of action for several weeks
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