Tractor related too !!!

Old Roy · Mar 3, 2009

Any one see one of these ?
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Chances R · Mar 3, 2009

Thats freaking awesome.
Suprised me that it looks like it would of just kept cutting in to the ground if you did not stop it.

RayP(MI) · Mar 3, 2009

Hey, that's neat!

James Howell · Mar 3, 2009

What an invention!

What will Red Green think of next?
If the women dont find you handsome...

Vito · Mar 3, 2009

Thjat's cool.Probably could use a sharpening.

Vito

rrlund · Mar 3, 2009

I'm pulling for ya,we're all in this together. Keep your stick on the ice.

RN · Mar 3, 2009

Tractor looks like late 30s F20 IHC- have something similar setting on old home farm. Saw rig interesting- maybe safer than front mouunted buzz saw on H- don"t have to handle log to be cut while saw moving. Sort of over size pipe cutter hacksaw rig. RN

Leroy · Mar 3, 2009

Cannot get a picture, link just tied up computor and had to shut down site and restart to get out of it. But without seeing a picture sounds like a saw that I have seen some of, some were tractor mounted and powered and others were a hand portable unit powered with a hit and miss engine. I have sales lit around someplace put as of now I can't think of the makers name. Worked like a one man croscut saw.

fixerupper · Mar 3, 2009

Back in it's day it was a lot better than sawing by hand. I can envision someone splitting the last log by hand while the next one is being sawed. My neighbor used to have one of those laying in his machine shed. I don't know where it went after he died. If I remember right he used to do some custom sawing with it mounted on an Oliver 70. Jim

Anonymous-0 · Mar 3, 2009

I thought it was cutting pretty slow too. My experience with one end of a good, sharp 2 man saw was that it cut a lot faster than that, using human power. The machine doesn't have much of a stroke on the blade either.

Somewhere I have a book that carefully explains saw sharpening with a file. I thought it was very interesting. My Grandfather did a bunch of logging and wood cutting in the 30's and 40's using those saws and the book was among some of his stuff. I am certain that he sharpened his own saws. Probably an art that is more or less lost these days.

The tractor powered saw in the video is probably safer than the old buzz saws people used to use. We had a trailer mounted buzz saw when I was a kid, but my Dad would not let me operate it much. He was afraid I would fall into the rotating blade or have a piece of wood kick back at me. The flat belt was probably a bit dangerous too. We never used the buzz saw again after we got a chain saw, but I am glad I got to see it in operation and that I got to work it a little.

Neat video!

Bob Kerr · Mar 4, 2009

I have seen the drag saw rigs that used hit and miss engines but hadn't seen one on a tractor, pretty slick! Some one else posted about they need to sharpen it. For sure! Those have to be done by hand now days and there is a trick to doing them right. Has to do with getting all the teeth level and then file the knives and chisels so the knives are just a tad bit taller. The knive cuts the sides of the kerf and the chisel scoops out the chip. They will really throw the chips then and not work much harder than a dull one! I have a one man crosscut with another handle mounted on the end to finish cut big stuff I can't get my regular chainsaw into. I wonder if that saw on the tractor has a felling rig also. I always thought that could cause a problem with having the tractor close by like with the old Mall saws that ran off the hydrolic pump.

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