If the grabhook breaks....

[lumbercamp]

I have had two battery chargers going all day long doing electrolysis since the 2nd week in May. Cleaning up all of the iron that I had found in the winter. Thanks to Michigan Badger for explaining electrolysis more then a year ago. I used to hoard all of my finds and spend a lonnnggg weekend sandblasting all of my iron at my brother-in-laws. It is a lot more relaxing to do work on electrolysis in the evening after a hard days work in the hot sun during the summer.
The first photo showes a typical grab hook that loggers would drive into the end of a log and would be dragged by an oxen or a horse.
The second photo shows what the lumbermen would make-do with what they had on hand to replace the broken grabhook. In this case it was a railroad spike.

 

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[tymcmurray]

Nice piece.
I live in Oregon during high school. Our mascot was the Loggers, and we had forestry classes. Lived and breathed loging and never saw such a nice hook.

 

[Michigan Badger]

Awesome work my friend!

I also love this stuff. Pure history it is!

Do you coat your relics after cleaning?

Badger

 

[lumbercamp]

Badger, I spray WD-40 on the iron and after it dries in a day or two I then coat them with lacquer

 

[muleskinner]

That is some cool stuff. I have one old lumber camp that I've been scratching around in also. It's 100 miles away and I don't get up there that often, but fortunately it's on private land. So I'll just take my time.
I had no idea the iron stuff could clean up so nice. Good work.