{"id":5441,"date":"2009-03-30T12:43:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2015-05-23T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T21:29:23","slug":"cant-hook-cant-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/archives\/5441","title":{"rendered":"cant-hook \/ cant-pole"},"content":{"rendered":"

cant.<\/strong> To give a sudden turn or impulse to, as to any thing resting upon its edge; to jerk; to throw, as, to cant round a stick of timber. \u2014 Webster, 1882<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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They put the sharp ends of their cant-poles against it, and when they raised the poles up, the cant-hooks bit into the log and rolled it a little. \u2013 Farmer Boy, Chapter 27, “Wood Hauling”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"note\"A<\/span> cant-hook is used to move logs either in the timber or at the sawmill, or to move large stones. The typical cant-hook had a wooden cant-pole which was about six feet long and three inches square at the largest part, containing a mortise or slot. The pole tapers at each end. The iron hook was about 2 feet long and 2 inches wide and nearly a half an inch thick, often perforated with several holes so it could be adjusted to use with timber of varying sizes. A strong screw bolt secures the hook through the pole. Sometimes the iron hook is bolted to the side of the lever instead of being placed in a mortice, or a band of iron secures the two. – John Thomas, The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs and Cultivator Almanac for the Year 1870<\/em> (Albany, New York: Luther Tucker and Son, 1870): 49-50.<\/p>\n

A cant-hook (sometimes called a cant-dog) with a spike at the end of the pole (the end with the hook) is called a peavey. Use of a cant-hook with a spike is first attributed to Joseph Peavey in 1858, a Maine blacksmith. The spike allows for a firmer hold on the log to be moved and it could be used to push or prod logs into position. <\/p>\n

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\nAdvertisement and photograph of railroader’s cant-hook.<\/em><\/p>\n

     
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\ncant<\/strong> (FB 12, 28)
\n     cant-hooks (FB 27)
\n     cant-poles (FB 27) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instrument used by lumbermen to move logs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[644],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5714,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions\/5714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}