Vertical splitting?

Wasn't that a homemade pickaroon / hookaroon?

Edit: Found 'er...

https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/home-made-hookaroon.82967/

bluedogz said:

Maybe.... I thought it was something like using a pipe to support the parts of the round that overhang the splitter platform.

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Oh...Misunderstood ya. Not a bad idea. I usually chop slices from one side just as if tackling a big boy with a maul. FWIW, I also use hatchets to grab/move rounds when splitting, loading or unloading.

I'll use peavy to help position the big rounds. Anything that I can lift, I go back to horizontal.

A couple of pieces of pipe to roll the rounds onto the foot makes life easier. Roll the rounds up close tip them on end and push them onto the foot of the splitter. Leave them under the round and you can spin them also.

Pipe trick work real well. You do need to firm up the ground if you are working on dirt. I use some 2x6s. Others have said to use plywood. A pickaroon and/or pulp hooks help to position a round also. Working with one arm you might find a pulp hook very useful. It puts an instant handle on your piece of wood.

bluedogz said:

Pulp hook or pickeroon is my next splurge tool... you can see me sort of turning the Firewood Gripper into a hookeroon in the video...

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Blue, For the homeowner I think the pickaroon is most useful for sticking and handling small stuff on the ground, also big stuff can be dragged or manipulated off a truck or trailer bed without having to climb into the aforesaid. Don't have a pulp hook , but I think I'd be for sticking and dragging only. My neighbor is an old wore out pulp wooder , he said you use either one for sticking and dragging the log over the cable noose, then the operator that controls the winch, at his discretion lifts the load on to the truck. But that's just a pulp wooders use, then there are those that work in the saw mill environment that use the pickaroon for moving slabs, etc.
A little windy explanation, ---but I'd get one, you'll find it useful.