[AT] Sawing Wood

Thu Feb 22 19:22:47 PST 2018

That buss saw blade runs counterclockwise.   The saw was mounted on the front of a MM UTU running with a flatbelt.   Later i remade it to run off a AC D-14 with a pto and on the 2 pt lift.   You needed at least 3 guys to be safe...........

Two men carrying the log was best.  With a third **boss guy*** running the saw and a 4th holding the end log and tossing it into a truck or wagon.   Very dangerous saw.   But, so are chain saws.

The safest is my Blockbuster wood processor with a hyd. run chainsaw.  It is mounted on a 3 pt hitch powered by an MM-670 gas tractor rated at 74 hp.   I can process 2 cords of wood per hour with this machine.

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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 changed. 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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