[AT] Sawing Wood

Thu Feb 22 17:23:20 PST 2018

I have a couple of them. One which I have used at times has a tip-table and
is staked in place and operated with a long flat belt. I've ran it mostly
with my Allis C and a time or two with my JD-A. The other is made to mount
directly on the front of a tractor and runs with a much shorter belt. It is
a sliding table on rollers. I have not used one since before my 2013 bypass
but now I would and might use one as long as my cardiac guy doesn't have a
cow.
I used to do demos at Conner Prairie Living History Museum sawing slab-wood
but I finally quit doing it due to other people insisting on helping. I
have done a lot of kinds of dangerous work in my life but I insist on
managing any risk. At the museum I always roped our area off but guys kept
on climbing over or under the rope and grabbing the cut wood to stack it.
You wouldn't believe how truly stupid some of those guys are... One I
recall kept tossing the wood over to the other side of the saw by tossing
it over the top of the saw blade, sometimes clearing the blade with his arm
by only a few inches.
Some of them get really touchy about being screamed at...  :-)  :-)  :-)

.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Rena Glover Goss <rlgoss at twc.com> wrote:

> My guess is that those saws pre-date your estimate, Gil.  I have photos of
> my grandfather running one that was powered by a Waterloo Boy.  He traded
> that in to buy an early production John Deere D, so I feel reasonably
> certain that style of saw was available by the mid- to late-1920's.
>
>
> Larry
> ---- Gilbert Schwartz <vschwartz1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > My knowledge of this type of saw goes back to the latter 1930's. My
> father as well as being a farmer was also a somewhat commercial firewood
> salesman during the winter. This all resulted in a LOT of firewood being
> cut, sawed, and split. The first saw I remember was a four-wheel homemade
> contraption with a model T Ford engine that was cooled with a Whippet car
> radiator and occasionally boiled over in the wintertime. No anti-freeze
> here, just water. That engine ran the saw with a flat belt. The outfit
> utilized a tilt table to feed the wood. I recall the the engine would
> freeze up until someone remembered to put a burlap bag in front of the
> radiator. This contraption was moved around with horses and always used my
> father and his three brothers as a crew. My brother and I were too young to
> do any work around the thing. I do not recall anyone getting injured other
> than occasionally something in the eyes. This was all before chainsaws and
> wooden spliters. Along about 1945 or 6, this all
>  ch
> >  anged. Selling firewood in town pretty much stopped with the advent of
> natural gas and heating oil so sawing wood was reduced to what was needed
> at home. This saw went into meltdown and the next one was powered by a 9M
> Ford which had been purchased new on our place. The saw did the sawing on
> the three farms the brothers ended up owning but the saw crew stayed the
> same except we now had two boys who were old enough to carry wood to the
> saw. Later on the power was supplied by a WD or a CA Allis. All of this
> happened and was happening when I went into the USMC, and was all over when
> I was discharged. The memories are good, but I am glad those days are gone.
> >
> > > On February 21, 2018 at 8:37 PM Spencer Yost wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >     I am too young to have any extensive experience with them. It did
> work a few times around them and only ran one once. To be honest those
> things always scared me and I always seemed to working with folks whose
> judgment and presence of mind I seriously distrusted. I always volunteered
> to stack/load and spent the whole time hoping I never had to stack wood
> with blood on it...
> > >
> > >     Spencer Yost
> > >
> > >         > > On Feb 21, 2018, at 9:08 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> > > >
> > > >             > > > On 2/21/2018 3:52 PM, John Maddock wrote:
> > > > >             Ralph wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >             " The teeth are
> > > > >             coming down on the log to cut through, using the saw
> frame as backing to
> > > > >             hold the log in place."
> > > > >
> > > > >             Wondered about that. Must be the optical effect of the
> camera which makes
> > > > >             the saw appear to be rotating with the teeth pointing
> up. Often the effect
> > > > >             is to slow the motion, whereas this appeared to be
> about the correct
> > > > >             speed.
> > > > >
> > > > >         > > I hadn't noticed that effect but it must be like the
> early tv shows we used to watch. The wheels on the wagons appeared to be
> turning
> > > >         backwards.
> > > >
> > > >         Ralph in Sask.
> > > >
> > > >             > > >
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