[AT] 3pt buzz saw - Ford

[Gene Dotson]

    Farmer, you could bring the buzz saw and VAC to Portland to cut up 
slabwood for our campfire. Steve Sewell has been running his BF minnie on 
the saw for several years. Would be a good volunteer job for you. We get 
first choice of the firewood due to the ATIS guys working on the sawmill. We 
never run out of wood and usually have some left over. I park my golf cart 
trailer next to the saw and pull it behind my golf cart to the campsite.

    I grew up around our buzz saw. Dad had a C.A. Mc Dade saw with a roller 
table. Was top of the line when he bought it in the early 50's. We would run 
it with our Farmall H or F-12. Always dreaded coming home from school seeing 
the saw belted up waiting for us to cut the wood with a large stack ready to 
cut. Would usually be on a Friday afternoon and running through Saturday. 
Always had plenty help with all us boys. Dad kept it filed sharp and he did 
most of the sawing.

                    Gene




-----Original Message----- 
From: Indiana Robinson
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 2:41 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] 3pt buzz saw - Ford

That should be a good buy at that price.

I have two or three buzz-saws here and I used to run one of them (inside of
a roped off area) as part of our live demo's at the Conner Prairie Living
History Museum north of Indy. I also used it a good bit here on the farm
and I expect to be using it again before long. I'll be mostly cutting
sawmill slab wood so I won't have a lot of really heavy stuff to lift.
Using even my very light little Echo saw really kills my arthritic back but
the buzz-saw doesn't. The one I use is one that you stake down and run with
a long flat-belt. I have mostly used it with my Allis Chalmers C but I used
to run it with my 1948 John Deere A some as well as the Farmall Super-MTA
and once with my MM-R. I am looking forward to running it with my little
Case VAC. I now have a bit of trouble looking back well enough to belt up
easy with the Allis C since the pulley is at the back and under the seat. I
think that the Case VAC with the pulley on the front side will be easier
for me.

A guy scared me a little at Conner Prairie some years ago. One of the
saw-mill guys decided that he was going to help me get rid of the cut wood.
I had been piling it off on the other side of the saw from the blade side.
I was just shutting the saw down to move it since it was just short demo
runs anyway. He jumped in and started grabbing the cut wood out from under
the blade and tossing it up over the top of the spinning blade over to the
other side. Each time he reached over the blade throwing a piece of wood he
passed his arm with-in a couple of inches of the blade... I said something
to him twice but he ignored me. Nothing happened but that was the last time
I took the buzz-saw to the event...

The saw I use has a pivoting table on hinges. I know another one has a
sliding table on rollers. If the third one is still around here I don't
even recall which style it is... The sliding table one mounts on the front
of a tractor and I have kept it mostly so I could mount it on something to
take to a show. I love showing a tractor with an implement on it instead of
just sitting there bare.
I plan to stack my slab-wood on a hay wagon this summer and just for fun I
will set the buzz-saw up out next to the road and cut it up out there some
Sunday afternoon.
We kind of do stuff like that sometimes. We have had folks tell us a number
of times that they always watch our place because we were often doing
something interesting.
:-)
Sadly the last several (too many) years have been pretty slim on activity
but I have plans for this summer.


-- 

Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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