Log lifter

A log lifter comprising a straight tubing section which is elongated and provided with a side wall slot opening through one end of the tubing section, a transverse bar member fixed to said one end of the tubing section and extending on opposite sides thereof and closing said slot at said one end, the opposite end of the slot terminating between the ends of the tubing section, a pair of spaced log engaging jaws carried by opposite ends of said bar member and projecting beyond one side of the tubing section, a reciprocating rod engaged slidably and non-rotatably in the tubing section for movement lengthwise therein and having a rear end operating handle, a coacting operating handle on the tubing section between the opposite ends of the same, and a single log engaging jaw secured to the end of said rod adjacent to the bar member and away from the operating handle of the rod and projecting through said slot and arranged in opposed relation to and substantially midway between the jaws of said pair, said single jaw being shiftable through said slot longitudinally and the opposite closed ends of the slot limiting movement of said single jaw with said rod and rod operating handle forwardly and rearwardly relative to the tubing section, and the engagement of said single jaw in said slots maintaining the tubing section and said rod in permanently assembled non-rotational relationship.