Makers of Quality Tools, Handles & Dowels Since 1857

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Always Open for New Business

The Peavey Manufacturing Company has for over 160 years met the special needs of the industry with quality tools, handles and dowels. We have the capability to make long, shaped handles to fit each individual need; for instance, our shaped Pick Pole handles assure the most positive grip available. 

If there are any new items that we can manufacture or help develop, we are eager to do so. We know that your industry may have special requirements and we are always happy to work them out with you.

Peavey is a Maine-Based Family Business

Josephy Peavey

Invented the tool that bears his name and revolutionized the logging industry.  Shown hear in 1858 as a young man leaning on a hookless "handspike". The Peavey's retained control until 1944 when David Howard Peavey died. Walter Willey carried on.

Lee Delano

Lee, Raymond & Dean's father, acquired a steel foundry in Oakland, ME and a Sawmill & Woodworking shop in Madison, ME after WWII. In 1954 Peavey MFG (under leadership from Walter Willey)  and the Maine Woods Tool Compnay (MWTC) merged and kept the Peavey Mfg Co. name. Lee took the helm.

Dean Delano

After the Peavey fire of 1966 Ray & Dean Delano salvaged equipment from Madison, ME, and relocated Peavey Mfg Co. to a former chicken house on Route 9 in Eddington, ME. This is the present day home for Peavey - just 5 miles downstream from where Joseph started.

Rodney Buswell

In 1978, after having hauled wood to his uncle Dean's company as an independent trucker, Rodney Buswell Sr. came to work at Peavey. When Dean retired in 1982 Ray & Rodney Buswell assumed control.  Ray then retired passing the reigns to Rodney.

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