Cutting firewood the hard way

JD Farmer · Feb 27, 2017

Old family pics of my mom, her sisters and a brother. Mother came from a large family and they all had to work to eat. Lived on a small farm in Washington Co. Ohio. The old home place is still there, currently the house is rented as far as I know.
the saw was powered by a stationery engine of some sort.....seen in another picture I have taken at some distance away.

Dave H (MI) · Feb 27, 2017

Great pictures! Is it just me or do those look like giant liquor bottles on the table?

Hayfarmer · Feb 27, 2017

my dad had one of those old buz saws we used on the front of our old G. Scarey thing to use. Not as hard work as the old 2 man crosscut saw

rick n ohio · Feb 27, 2017

You definitely have to give those people credit back then.I think half the people now days would freeze to death before they would work that hard
RICK

RLA · Feb 27, 2017

On our farm each fall my brother & I had to walk the whole farm wooded acers for what
my granddad called free wood. These were limbs that fell out of the trees over the winter
months. We had to pick up & rank them in piles. Later we'd drive an Old STAR Car to the wood
pile, the body removed & had a series of boards in place resembling a flat bed. Remove the
rear wheel & install a cut off saw. With the rear end off the ground & a farmerized pie plate
that worked as a gonvener for the old engine. My job being the youngest was to off bare & throw
the cut offs into a farm wood wagon. When the wagon was full I backed up to the wood room & with
the trip of the handle dumped it.. We didn't buzz wood the size shown in your picture mostly 6"&
smaller. This was about the time I drove a 1942 Model J/D B totally alone & I had the world by the
tail.. After the old Star Car engine would start or run anymore the buzz saw got mounted on the old B.

Donald Lehman · Feb 27, 2017

We still have a buzz saw. haven't used it for years, but we still have it.

rustred · Feb 27, 2017

i remember that saw doing the zing when young.
the "safety nuts" would go koo-koo if they came across that setup with no guards and refreshments while working. lol.

37chief · Feb 27, 2017

Growing up we had a neighbor who had a farm about 1/2 mile away. I remember the sound of his buzz saw as he cut his wood. Growing up, as close as the farm was, I never went there. I guess I never had a reason to go there. Stan

db4600 · Feb 27, 2017

That was the 3rd time it heated you. 1st was cutting. Last was burning, or maybe carrying ashes. We had a couple of neighbors that would come and help in November after hunting and before Thanksgiving. I think they came for the food more so than the favor.

37chief · Feb 27, 2017

Where's OSHA when you need them. I have a fairly good idea what the smaller bottles have in them, but not sure about the large jar. Stan

D beatty · Feb 27, 2017

Still have buzz saw and use it several times a year.

jon f mn · Feb 27, 2017

Dont seem so hard to me, you got booze, sammiches, and women, what more do you need?

Dick2 · Feb 27, 2017

That's the way we did things back in those days. Dad built the saw himself with an old mandrel that he got somewhere. Today to mounts on the back of the B Farmall. The people that were trying to make in on their own did what needed to be done. The people on welfare went to town and bought coal by the sack; no way they would stoop to sawing their own wood.

Dick L · Feb 27, 2017

Where is OSHA?? Reminds me of a story that kinda why OSHA wasn't needed back then.

A lawyer an doctor and a farmer was in a public rest room taking a leak. The lawyer went to the sink and said they taught us in collage that we should always wash our hand after we went to the restroom to make sure we had clean hands. The doctor went to the sink and started to wash his hands all the way to his elbow saying they taught us in med school to wash very well to keep from spreading germs to other people, The farmer walked by the sinks telling the others that he had been taught in grade school not to pee on his hands.

For those that do not get parables, back then they were taught to keep their hands away from a saw blade.

^D

Richard G. · Feb 27, 2017

Yep, got an old New Holland buzz saw down at the barn.
It was Grandpa's.
Richard in NW SC

Philip d · Feb 27, 2017

Great pictures thank you for sharing,they looked happy and healthy enough for having things so rough,maybe hard work is the key to a happy life

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Feb 27, 2017

My Dad's H that resides in my shop. We ran a lot of wood through that saw, before we got a chain saw, and sharpened a lot of posts with it.

hd6gtom · Feb 27, 2017

Used 1 till 1960, dad bought a farm 5 miles south of the 1 we lived on. When he went to move the buzz saw the wooden framework fell apart about 1/2 way home, it had 2 steel wheels under it. We burnt coal from then on.

RBoots · Feb 27, 2017

Now days they'd just set back and wait for the govt heating credits to take care of the heat for them

sms · Feb 28, 2017

We cut all the slabwood and edgeings to firewood length in my dads sawmill on a rolling table saw like that. The pieces went down a chute up a conveyor and into the dumptruck. I still have a buzzsaw and that GMC truck looks newer then mine.

Bret4207 · Feb 28, 2017

I still use a buzz saw with a flat belt for pole wood. Lots easier than a chainsaw.

As far as OSHA, they aren't needed on small farms at all. I don't need a nanny state bureaucrat telling me that saw blades, post hole diggers, PTO shafts or anything else that can possibly do harm can hurt me. Where I come from that's called "common sense".

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