Why Would This Guy Ruin A Perfectly Good Antique Baseball Bat?

[smokelessjoe]

Of course I am being facetious...

[perezfan]

Unforgivable... And look how he's treating that precious Webless Workman's Glove!

[murphusa]

There goes 100 members saying no that does not look like my 1850's bat. Mine is real, mine has a different color of wood where that thing is, it is a ring bat

[vintagesportscollector]

Interesting. What he is holding is called a log roller. Google "antique log roller" to see some images. The iron implement could be fitted on any round wooden handle.

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[DHogan]

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector

Interesting. What he is holding is called a log roller. Google "antique log roller" to see some images. The iron implement could be fitted on any round wooden handle.

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They are called Peavey's.

I learned something in an agricultural high school.

[mcgwirecom]

He's got dozens of baseballs-on-the-hoof behind him....

[slidekellyslide]

I've got one of those!

[Den*nis O*Brien]

It is probably a regional name but these great tools are commonly called "Cant Hooks" in the upper mid-west. They are indeed log rollers and are very efficient at rolling logs w/limbs removed. This example is mine and was used on a bunch of logging projects before processors and modern skidders came to be. They seem to always be hickory. I used this one on and off for 30+ years and never broke a handle. But every vintage example I have seen have holes for carriage bolts for the hook sleeve. They are still being made and sold for around $100 or less. Vintage examples are in most antique shops and farm auctions. There is a longer variant of the "Cant Hook" designed for 2 people that has 2 opposing hooks in the middle. Knob ends look like baseball bat knobs and if cut in half would make 2 bat like items. This version could avoid the carriage bolt holes.

[perezfan]

While it does look amazingly similar to an early Town Bat, the Town Bat would typically have two somewhat flattened sides, and not be perfectly round in circumference. The handle w/rounded knob is quite similar, however.