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"The Hookaroon "......don't leave home without it. Fantastic tool...I have 2 of them. 72 years and have been splitting wood since a teen and this is the best tool since the motorized splitter. Keep up the good work!

after 44 years of cutting firewood what I do since retiring, watch you young buck cutting firewood. Thanks for the video.

Hi Adam's mom! You did a good job raising your boy.

Why would you split the wood in a very modern splitter with a belt system and then drop it on the ground so it needs to be picked up again?

69 years old and still cutting, splitting, and heating with wood, also saw milling. Y’all hang in there.

That's smart thinking Adam, saving your back now so you won't have as many issues in the future, great video

As the saying goes, "be kind to your body when you're young. You'll miss it when you get older".

The body-saving is certainly a great benefit, but don't discount the other reason for a pickaroon... reach. Having an extra 3 feet of arm length saves a ton of steps during wood handling.

Call me crazy, but what is the purpose of the conveyer belt, unless you backup you pickup underneath it?

I never had old man aches till I hit 60 , 66 now with more achey days than not. That Pickering will save yourself back better than the LogOX in my opinion. Thanks for sharing!

I remember as a young fella older folks telling me I shouldn’t do what I do as I’ll pay for it when I get older. I wish I’d have listened to them more often lol. You’re wise beyond your years Adam. Great video, stay safe and Merry Christmas to you and your family in case there’s not another video before then.

I have two. One is the Counsel Tools. Been doing firewood since 1976. Can't do without my Pickaroon's. Don't complain. Wait until you hit 50. I'm 67 now. Great short and to the point vid.

Ok I’m sold think I know what my next purchase will be. I will be heading to your Amazon store when I make the purchase. Take care brother

I'm only 29 as well. Been cutting firewood since I was 15yo. Hard to believe been running a stihl and an f250 for 14 years already. Builds a boy into a man quick.

Best title of a vid I’ve ever seen. Also, thanks for telling me about this tool. I liked your delivery very much. You weren’t too fast, but you got to it. I don’t need thirty minutes of this info and you did perfect.

Great video. Don’t give up on that wonderful log lift. The more I see your Axis, the more I like it.

In South Germany we call it "Sappel", it is sold and officially named a Sappie. The word comes from the Italian language, a Zappone is a heavy hoe. Mine is a very old Ochsenkopf with the very tip bend some degrees to the handle, to give it better grip to the wood. This Sappel is a heirloom piece, I have it from my grandfather. Some people just use a felling axe in a way like a Sappel, and it works - in a way. Stay safe everybody, stay blessed. Greetings from Germany!

I see that you're helping your back with the pickaroon, but now you need to pick 1,569 small pieces off the ground. Suggestion- let the conveyor dump split wood into metal totes. (Yes it will be a little messy) Use your loader forks or 3pt pallet fork to lift and carry tote to a wood stack area or re-stack into another metal tote. Much less bending over. Probably get 2x work in same time and much easier on your body

I wish they had such a thing as a hookaroon when I was your age, I adapted to a form of it by using my ax and it worked fine. I felt pretty smart when others started emulating me and it saved me time and back problems.

After retiring from the US Army Military Police I worked in a veneer mill for another 20 years and was first introduced to the pickeroon or hookeroon in 1989 and haven't been without one since. I was surprised to see that you learned how to stab the wood with the grain. I have seen so many new guys giving up on the tool because they couldn't figure out why it wouldn't stick into the wood if they hit it sideways instead of with the grain. At 68 I still burn wood and pellets but after retiring for the second time I've been paying a 30 year old kid LOL to do most of my wood. I only wish 20 years ago I would of had a splitter like yours. And don't worry son those old man pains will find you sooner than you realize.

Yep, many of those aches and pains come from stuff we did (because we could) when we were younger. Age required me to become more efficient in what I do and to try to "work smarter, not harder."

73 in January. I'm a wedge and hammer kind of guy. Love my X27 and X7 though. Bless you all, enjoy it while you can.

I'm 57 and my pickaroon has really saved my back. Bought it at Menards it's a forester brand with a hickory handle 28 inches. Paid $20 bucks couldn't believe I found it that cheap!

I bought myself a Forester Pickaroon for Christmas and an kicking myself for not doing it years ago. My back is usually an issue but not lately. I cut and split 4 cherry logs today for example and I’m not making any of my old guy groans tonight One tip - I do this with axes and mauls too Cut a disk off a log that fits in a drywall bucket and about 4-6 inches thick. It will keep the bucket from tipping over when you put your hookaroon in it next to your splitter or work area. Sure beats looking for it In the snow and bending over to get it all day.

Glad I found your channel I live deep in the woods of Missouri. I love working and living in the woods I wouldn’t have it any other way

If your in good shape once you hit 40 it changes.. I'm 52...6'3 200lbs and I split firewood here in SoCal...keeps me young at heart and in shape..you got a long ways to go kid

Hey Adam, enjoyed your video. Came here from The Morgans Channel. Good stuff. Yup, old fart, 63, yup, bad back, yup hookeroon!! Glad you found your way "home" to the country. I left for the country when I was 12. Haven't looked back. You will do well my friend. Great screen presence and easygoing delivery. Good content and music. Cheers. Mr. Mark at The Farm.

It makes the job a lot easier. I hardly ever do wood without mine.

Awesome video mate! Been looking a pickaroon myself for few weeks now. Estonian winter are quite wet nowadays and lots of logs are slippery and slipping out of hand. Seems like very useful tool with chainsaws and axes. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Estonia 🇪🇪!

I need to put this tool on my list. Thanks Adam!

Once you hit 30 it changes, I'm not old and never will be but a day after I turned 30 I got hit by a car. It HURT by back. Before that day I felt like I could get hit by a car and be ok. Lol, I'm ok but I save my back as much as possible now and work differently. Never know what life will throw at you but train yourself to work smart and save your youth for when you're older. Happy days man love your channel.

Axe handles and shovel handles used to be oiled by natural means , by working . Oil from the users hands would keep the handles from drying out and splitting . This was a technique back before phones and videos .

Hey Adam- some folks are 35 and feel 70 from things outside their control. Suggestion for the shoulders, use a bicep when moving the logs with the hookaroon! I’ve used a fireman’s axe like this hookaroon to move logs when my back and shoulders just have given up! Thanks for the great video! Have to get one of these instead of that ole axe!

Adam most people take care of their tools but don't look after their body. I'm 63 been cutting and splitting firewood since I was 8 years old. I do 20-30 minutes stretching everyday, never miss doing it and never had any aches other than fatigue from a good hard days work. What i have noticed as i get older is that my strength is going and I can't lift anywhere near the weight I could when I was young. The stretching keeps the body supple so you can recover from working it. I've had people helping me in the bush half my age or more and can't believe I'm not stiff the next day when they can hardly move. Look after your body when you are young and grow old without aches and pains.

Great video! That type of tool is great! You are wise to take advice and improve over time. Suggestion: put a magnet on the blue colored indeed table/ round lifting actuated table top of your splitter. If you put a strong magnet close to your RIGHT foot on the underside of the table, [ right foot / right left determined when operator is looking towards the ram assembly] you could click in/ magnetically lock your picaroon into a vertical position and it will be exactly [almost] in the same place every time you go to grab it. The handle looked to be a bit longer than the vertical distance of the infeed table but the pivot point of the radial arc would probably be acceptable depending on where you stand when raising logs on the infeed table. In my opinion having a tool like that is useful and having the tool in the same place leads to better muscle memory , reduced fatigue and not tripping on the handle when tool slides around [ snow is slippery]. Great Channel, Happy Holidays!

Hey, Adam! I'm commenting through my father's YT account because I don't have one. My suggestion to anyone would be to do a brief warm up of the major joints and areas you'll be using hard and then do deep stretches after it's all over, preferrably before bed. A lot of folks like us who do hard work like this always preach about the maintenance of the equipment, but are not as in tune with maintaining the God given equipment he gave you that's the most ignored tool --- your body! There's proper ways to lift, swing, carry, push, or pull and there are also improper or even *dangerous* ways to do those things. And to compound it, when you haven't taken good care of your body for a long time and you find yourself being a stiff, immobile old man then the work you're doing to produce firewood is that much more damaging on your body. That's exactly why we've had to invent tool like a hookaroon, to get around our own infirmities haha! God bless you and your family, Adam. I subscribed for the ideas you have regarding small-scale wood production because I'm in that same boat to heat my house. Thank you for reading--- Tad from PA

I bought a 36” Logrite Hookaroon based on Andrew’s recommendation. It has been a major back saver. Great Video and content as always 🙂

Cool. I now know about this awesome tool. And yes, always be open to new ideas. Even if they are old ideas.

Thanks for linking this, headed to your Amazon store now!

Well Adam, love that you say your Mom bought it for you. That is why we are MOMS. When you are young or older, MOMS ARE ALWAYS THERE FOR THE KIDS.👵🏻

Hey Adam brand new subscriber here from S. Illinois. I just turned 45 a few days ago and have been helping my son Evan get wood for his roadside stand. I have been considering a hookaroon but haven’t really liked some I’ve seen until I seen the one you have. I will be using your Amazon link to pick one up! Thanks for sharing!👍🏻👍🏻

Husquvarna Log and Ice tongs are also real labor savers in the woods and around the splitter. Have two of those 8in and 14 inch

I picked up a pickaroon this last spring, love it!! 42 and have had back problems for about 10 year, it's a life saver!!

Glad you finally got it out and used it.

Wow... All the years I spent rolling and picking up wood off the ground. I wish someone had showed me what that was a long time ago. Nice setup you have, I had one of those low horitontals for years, back breaker.

I think I told you months ago you needed to use a Pickaroon lol glad you are finally using it! I dont leave home without it lol

It hit me when I hit 50 years old. It only gets worse..........lol ! Great Video !

A hookaroon is a real back saver. I'm 40 with a garbage lower back and once I discovered a hookaroon this year it made a world of difference. Good on you for listening. When I was 29 I was too prideful to take recommendations, stupid move on my part, very stupid move.

You’ll be glad you used that when your my age, you are twenty years younger than my son. Keep up the great vids and best wishes for the new year from England

I love mine!!! I just need one of those Axis.

Yes Adam they are a great wood tool to get as I finally got one this year after doing the old style of picking up rounds and hauling them by hand even at 52 I'm doing things alot different now then before because it's hard to get going in the morning, so be smart and save your body for when it will mean the most...

Last night I finished watching all your videos from start to your most recent viedo to day I wish I would have had Thea’s log splinters when I was younger because the splinter I had was a foot pumpe splitters with a Hydraulic jack. I am 77 yrs old and still use it but only for maby 1/4 cord a year, it was great to see the man at 74 still splitting wood . Hears hoping you have a very Mary Xmas and give your smallest member of your family a big hug from me.

You can use the hookaru on the end on shortened log , 6 to 8 that is ready to cut in to fire wood length and place under the one end raised up by it a U shaped piece of wood so you do not cut into the dirt. Not every log depending on size... In the woods my Grandfather would use a stick mark off with 3 fire wood lengths and mark the log with ax chop......He would stand in the middle of the stick and mark 2 at a time... We would use a double handled cross buck saw!!!

Thanks for sharing with us Adam. Merry Christmas to you and your families. 👍👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Mom was right Adam. I'm 59 and still enjoy working but I can agree with the old man itus syndrome, as i have it. I wished I'd listened a little more to my dear dad who kept telling me "slow down " ask for help when needed. I went to work in the oil and gas industry when i was 18 and still working at the same job. The old timers which now I'm one, used to say you ain't no good if you get hurt. Love that Easton made wood splitter. Thats awesome.

I came here because I saw the IBC crate and thought you just started using them. (I was looking to start using them) but now I found a new tool that I need to get haha great video

I’m 34 and yes work smarter not harder even though you are able. Love the channel 👍🏻

I would say the aches come at 35. I’m 37 now and things need to be done smarter not harder now.

Love the intro and love the splitter I just got my picaroon in the mail from loggOX. Looking forward to trying it out

Great tool. I have one and the only advice I have is never swing it towards you and watch out for glancing hits to the log your going after. Can redirect into your leg or foot. I came close once and it opened my eyes. LOL I'm 56 and still splitting.

What a great mom!

Good thinking. Love that splitter, it’s pretty fancy.

Thanks for adding your store info Adam. I just went to Amazon through your link to buy the solar charger for my Dump Trailer that you showed in the video with your trailer. Looks like a good answer then having a dead battery :)

Here in my country we cut wood in forrest into something called metrovica (1m long logs). We get it to the house and split and cut it there (most stoves accept 25 or 33cm long wood). It's less handling in forrest because you don't have to handle as many pieces.

The log ox is a pretty good tool as well. Im a middle aged big guy and it has been a back saver for me.

LOL! You're only a year away from those old man aches Adam! LOL. Good morning - good to see you using something to minimize the bending and lifting from the ground. Wish you and your family a Merry Christmas!

I used one just like that back in 1971-72 when I was in high school working at a local pulpwood yard. The hook made short work of leveling out the top of a car loaded with 5 foot long pieces of pine and hardwood pulpwood. I also had a short hook (16") but the longer one was much better.

Now you need some kind of “holster” on the side of your splitter to hold the pickaroon in.

Beautiful wood, nice machine, good music and video : perfect ! Wish you a nice Christmas from France.

Well done my son. No more sticking that saw in the dirt. My heart is starting to heal.

I have been using an old ice tong. No bending over and will pickup nearly everything you can lift. With a little practice you can even throw the smaller ones.

Hey congrats on the 20K man. Keep up the great work.

Great video!!.Starting a Homestead and ourselves. .(Minor Homestead)..will post in the future

I just came over here from the Morgan's channel... after two minutes of my first video, I had to subscribe... looking forward to watching more...

I started using a hook a roon quite a few years ago when I started having back problems. They are a absolute saver! Your splitter is the cats pajamas! I think Iam going to be checking into one. Stay safe!!

So, worked at a place they had a big flat hopper for the intake part that was loaded with the front end loader. That way it was already at the height of the table. If you had a pickup bed trailer that you could load flat, and then tilt up with a chute at the back of it, that might save some back labor too.

I'm 59, and just ordered my first pickaroon which is on its way.

I wear a back belt, upper body stabilizer, knee brace, elbow braces and sometimes a wrist brace to do firewood. Body building and firewood wear and tear, but at 43 with surgeries on the elbow and shoulder, nerve block (Rhizodomies) in my lower back I make it my mission to do everything as ergonomic as possible. It’s now part of the fun to develop a backproof system🤓. I could almost start a channel on all my innovations.

Nice tool beautiful. Great video

I'm getting one. Thank you for the video. Todd in NH.

That was very relaxing.

Love the splitter and the banjo .

Merry Christmas HTA and all the best for 21👍.

Sometime us Moms do know best! Believe me, I know what aches and pains are, so save that back for as long as you can. Thanks Adams Mom!

After many years of abusing my body I eat Motrin like tic tac’s glad to see you hake care of your body. Work smarter you have many years for pain. Love the videos love the face you are taking care of yourself great video

That log splitter is pretty cool ...so much easier and quicker than using an axe ...Only down Side is you don't get shoulders like Rocky doing it this way ..lol

Hi Adam stay save I am only 28 and I have huge back aces. Thats the toll of 10 years as a heavy equipment mechanic and as a part time farmer. Stay save and healthy.

I'll have to shop around for something similar down here in New Zealand. Great vid 👌

Glad to see your putting it to use Adam! I love my Fiskars composite handle pickaroon but seeing you sanding down the handle and applying oil to it makes me want a wooden handled one as well! Didn’t realize we were close in age either...you only got two years on me!

I'm 28 and had the old man aches since I was 22. I visit the chiropractor 10 15 times a year he keeps me going. Take care of yourself.

Please compare it with a pike pole to load split wood into your metal bins! We would love that comparison as a back saver

That splitter is a big investment , but man it’s got a fast cycle time and great for making custom size quality fire wood ! Your pick a roon is a back saver .

Hi Adam - it's Big Rodders in Ireland. I'm delighted yiu have seen the light! I used 3 different length pickaroons for years but I was always concious of the dangers of spearing your lower legs, particularly when using the shorter ones, if it was deflected during a strike. I switched over to two timber tongs 7 years ago and they are my go to tools now. Get your Mom to buy you a pair for Christmas and review them against the pickaroon in a future video. Happy Christmas to you and your subscribers in this most difficult of years.

I was doing ok in my early 30's. Working out, eating right. All was well. My older friends told me that 37 was the magic age were issues start kicking in. I was in good shape, and they never have been, so I was skeptical. Like clockwork, things started going down hill at 37. I'm by no means old now, just in my early 40's, but the issues are starting the pile up and they are only going to add up in time. Take care of your body. You only have one. Love the videos, btw.

Your mom better get a great mother's day gift this year.

Nothing worse than wet gloves right off the rip. You’ve inspired me to split some wood this fine Sunday morning!

Just starting use my pickaroon this year. It is awesome

loving the videos, I would say 35 is when all the stuff you did when you were younger starts coming back to remind you that you should have taken better care of your body. But I'm still convinced doing firewood is one of the best workouts available for the mind, body, and soul!

This is the life brother. This is so different from my life but I would trade it to live like this. 👍🏻