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| Reviews Summary for Pro Field Hook by Midwest |
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Reviews: 15
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Average rating: 3.7/5
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MSRP: $49.95
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Description: Midwest’s new Professional Field Hook is designed to help you turn over rocks, boards, tin and other items in the field. You will be amazed at the strength of this lightweight tool. Only 9 oz. Your choice of right or left handed hook, polished or super grip textured end. This new end that we have designed and tested will give a much better grip than anything you have ever used before. Durable titanium and aluminum construction. You won’t find a better tool for a better price that the new Pro Field Hook by Midwest
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JohnWhite
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Rating: 1/5
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Nov 14, 2002 16:28
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Not impressed
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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Not impressed. The Midwest Professional Field Hook is little more than an expensive gutter nail & golf club hook. The aluminum shaft is easily bent and just too weak for serious field work. It makes a fine snake hook but not a good field hook.
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MSTT
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Rating: 5/5
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Apr 11, 2002 01:21
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The mission: test to destruction!
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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The mission: Test and utterly destroy the Midwest Pro Field Hook!
The cast of characters: A dozen or so SHHS hot herpers
The result: Failure to destroy. A few paint chips missing.
The fun started on Friday when Chris Harper brought some prototypes to play with. Six of us hardcore types who just didn't want to go home after the Apalachicola weekend went to do some more serious field herping and tin flipping in South Georgia, and great fun was had by all.
About a metric ton of tin, old washing machines, tractor parts and cast iron were moved in the most brutal, hook-destroying manner possible. We used the hook as a lever and jumped up and down on it to move old rusted engines. We whammed it down point first straight through sheets of tin to pick them up and toss them back on the pile after they had been flipped. We used it to rip down tin sheets nailed to the sides of an abandoned shed.
When we were actually picking up sheets that snakes might be under we were pretty careful, but when moving trash back in place to reconstruct habitat we were absolutely brutal with the hook and used it as an all purpose demolition tool.
After we had moved about a metric ton of metal and had a lot more fun doing it than we would have without this nifty gadget, Brad Kalota summarized our collective opinions pretty well. He said, "I love this hook so much I want to marry it." Me, I'll settle for living with it.
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KRAITCATCHER
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Rating: 5/5
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Apr 8, 2002 19:46
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best tool I have used in the field
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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As a field hook,the PFH beats all I have ever used to date. It is light wt and just the right length to use as a hiking staff. Recently while out in the Bayou Savage N.W.R,I came to an area that had all of the small trees cut down and just forming this jumble of trip hazards, but by using the PFH as a support,I was able to negotiate the traverse with no problem. I shredded old logs, flipped over big logs and piles of leaf litter with no problem. I must tell Dana that the wait was worth it. But I think he needs to address the blue anodizing; I have found it to not be as durable as that on the gentle giants (the best thing since pockets)and that may have something to do with the aluminum used. I don't know, but recently at a show we put on at the Super Dome, just the normal use there put some wear on the anodizing. That is the only problem I can see. But other than that,the "Stump Ripper" has met its match.
James
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venom
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Rating: 5/5
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Mar 17, 2002 17:57
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Look out stumpripper!
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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Dana and the Midwest guys have done it again!
Superlight - my postal scale says 8 oz., super strong- I ripped a roll of chainlink out or the ground with it while in the pursuit of a 5 lined skink, and VERY reasonably priced- $50.
I've been using my own, home brewed field hooks for years and every few months I'd rebuild them after bending or breaking them. This year I decided to treat myself to a new toy.
Midwest's new Pro Field Hook has an aluminum shaft with a titanium "L" shaped hook. There's also a new twist to it, you can order with the hook portion knurled. The rough knurling provides great grip on logs, plywood, tin, whatever you're flipping with it. Less dropped cover means less spooked snakes to go chasing after. Also, the knurling isn't rough enough to hurt a snake if you handle them with it.
Don't let the aluminum shaft fool you, this thing is strong! Here in Florida, our herping season starts pretty early so I've been able to field test this thing a few times already.
You can see in the pic, I'm a pretty big boy, so I tend to move some heavy stuff in the field lookin for critters, and so far, this hook has tolerated it 100%
Bottom line is if you want a good looking, useful, tough tool to take to the field with you, without spending a fortune, give Dana a call or hit his website. www.tongs.com
-LL
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