The invention provides a manually assisted hand-held bar and pawl variable diameter branch clamping pomelo tree ring peeling tool. The ring peeling tool comprises a handle, a spring, a rotating shaft, a moving circle, a setting circle, a bar and a pawl; the spring which is a tension spring is fixedly installed on the handle, during operation, the pawl is meshed with a ratchet to fix the moving circle to a branch of a pomelo tree so as to prevent rotation along with a ring peeling knife, the handle is divided into two parts, the setting circle is installed on the handle, two parts of the setting circle are buckled together to form a full circle, the handle is opened and closed, and the setting circle is opened and closed accordingly; a groove is formed in the setting circle, a rolling wheel is embedded into the groove and rolls in the groove, a link rod penetrates through a center hole of the rolling wheel, the rolling wheel rotates in a circle, the link rod connects two pomelo tree ring peeling tools together, a ring peeling handle is fixed to the link rod, the ring peeling knife is arranged at one end of the ring peeling handle, a link plate is arranged at the other end of the ring peeling handle, and under manual assistance, the ring peeling knife moves in a circle by taking the fixed point of the handle and the link rod as the circle center and taking the distance from the fixed point to a knifepoint of the ring peeling knife as the radius to conduct ring peeling on the pomelo tree.