[AT] 3pt buzz saw - Ford

Mogrits mogrits at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 17:05:11 PDT 2015


The video made it fine and thanks for sending it! The kids hollering in the
background only made it seem a little more dangerous and suspenseful !

Warren

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:

> On 3/25/2015 11:01 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> > I have not been around buzz saws a lot but did help my uncle saw for his
> > wood furnace a couple of times years ago. He ran it with a medium length
> > flat belt off of his 8N ford. Worked the tractor harder than I would
> > have thought, although I have no idea how sharp he kept the blade.
> I guess this is as good a time as any to post a link to my firewood
> cutting video from
> 1992. My dad, myself and brother cutting logs into stove length. I've
> spent many hours
> over the years at this job. First with my dad, then with my uncle and
> lately with my
> brother who still uses wood as secondary heat. For sure that blade is
> dangerous and
> needs respect but I've never seen anyone hurt.
> Neighbours used to get together for a day's wood sawing . And it was a
> big day considering
> the size of those wood piles. I've got a picture of my uncle sitting on
> a woodpile half the size of
> the house.
> It wasn't chain saws that replaced the buzz saw as they are in no way as
> fast or efficient. Or
> much safer for that matter. The fact that people moved away from wood
> heating meant less
> wood needed cutting. Harder to get a group of neighbours all together on
> one day to saw.  So
> a chain saw was ok for a small amount of cutting firewood blocks but a
> good buzz saw rips through
>   a log much faster and less effort than a chain saw. Hopefully this
> will make it to the list.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSEQcuPNYG0
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
>
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