[AT] 3pt buzz saw - Ford

[Thomas Mehrkam]

Hey farmer.  Sounds like you are getting a little old like me.
My dad lived to be 90 years old. He grew up on the farm. Was a printer and worked with large high speed printing presses.  Literally tons of moving Machinery. Ran Dosers in the CC corps and was an expert at blasting.  Could fix almost anything and would tackle any construction or repair job.

At 82 he was on the roof of the house repairing Hurricane damage.  The insurance company caught wind of that and threatened to cancel his insurance if he did not keep off the roof. I do not think he ever went back on the roof but you never know.
He did use a extension ladder to paint the eves of the house.  Technically not on the roof. :-}

At 84 he was using a skill saw, during the heat of the summer, to saw landscape timbers, to put around his front flower bed.  He was sweated out with glasses fogged.  He ripped his middle finger right down the middle down to the bone.  The finger was never the same but after a couple months it was not a great hindrance to him.
We asked him to stay off ladders and call me if he needed any help that required Circular saws or simulator devices. As far as I know he never needed to use the saw again.
At 87 he decided to get some solid core doors out of the attic for a neighbor lady.  He fell off the ladder and had a compound fracture of his right arm.  It took about three months to recover from that and he finally decided that he should not be on a ladder.
Please think things over before using that Buzz saw.  I have run them some and they scare me to death. I had a real nice self propelled Buzz saw.  In my younger days I used it a lot.  Last year I sold it to a younger neighbor.
I still have my Chain saw and use it every year. Any safer than a Buzz saw?  Probably not but it does not scare me quite the same.  I am real Leary of getting up high on a ladder. I will still use one but I definitely think twice before going up high.
I like to think I learned from my dad.  Time will tell.

      From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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 Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 1:41 PM
 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.


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