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Vintage P-V The Peavey Mfg Co. #13 Cast Iron Swivel Timber Carrier Brewster ME
Vintage P-V The Peavey Mfg Co. #13 Cast Iron Swivel Timber Carrier Brewster ME
Vintage P-V The Peavey Mfg Co. #13 Cast Iron Swivel Timber Carrier Brewster ME
Vintage P-V The Peavey Mfg Co. #13 Cast Iron Swivel Timber Carrier Brewster ME
Vintage P-V The Peavey Mfg Co. #13 Cast Iron Swivel Timber Carrier Brewster ME
Vintage P-V The Peavey Mfg Co. #13 Cast Iron Swivel Timber Carrier Brewster ME
Vintage P-V The Peavey Mfg Co. #13 Cast Iron Swivel Timber Carrier Brewster ME
Vintage P-V The Peavey Mfg Co. #13 Cast Iron Swivel Timber Carrier Brewster ME
Vintage P-V The Peavey Mfg Co. #13 Cast Iron Swivel Timber Carrier Brewster ME

Vintage P-V The Peavey Mfg Co. #13 Cast Iron Swivel Timber Carrier Brewster ME

$ 42.21

Availability: 43 in stock
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Condition: Wear and tear indicative of a previously use item. Some visible rust. Being sold as a collectible and not a functioning item. Please examine all photos before placing a bid.
  • Model: # 13
  • Type: Swivel Timber Carrier
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Custom Bundle: No
  • MPN: 18
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Brand: Peavey
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    Up for bid is a vintage P-V The Peavey Mfg Co. #13 cast iron log skidder.
    Marked Brewster ME.
    It was in the Spring of 1857 that Joseph Peavey (pictured here with his hunting buddy) made the first tool to become known as the PEAVEY. With the first tool began the organization of the Peavey Manufacturing Company, which for over 160 consecutive years now has been making Peaveys and shipping them with other logging tools throughout the U.S. and many foreign countries.
    The event took place in Stillwater, Maine in the heart of the booming logging industry. One day a log drive became hung up on the Stillwater Branch of the famous Penobscot River. Joseph Peavey, who invented the Peavey Hoist for pulling stumps and hoisting gates on dams, the first hay press, the first wooden screw vice, the first clapboard water wheel, unspillable inkwell, and many other things, lay flat on a bridge overhead watching the men with their improvised prys trying to free the jam. Seeing the unsteadiness of the prys and realizing they needed something different, the idea came to him that he could make a better tool.
    So he jumped up, as the story goes, went back to his blacksmith shop and directed his son Daniel to make a clasp with lips, then make holes in the lips to put a bolt through on which to hang a dog (or hook) and toe rings below the clasp to the bottom of the handle. Finally, a pick was driven into the end of the handle. The tool was turned over to River Driver William Hale who pronounced it a great success.