My Dad lives in assisted care and his house is being sold so I went there yesterday to pick some items. Found these saws in the cellar that have been there forever. I have no idea how old they are but thought they were pretty cool. I plan to display these in my screened in deck. Ray
Any idea how old they are? The crosscut looks ancient built with lots of oak from what I can tell.. Ray
Cant really tell without a closer look,but both of them were still being made & sold well into the 1950's. But the perforated tooth pattern wasn't common after the '30's or so.It was preferred on green softwoods,for clearing coarse sawdust/chips, the standard tooth pattern for hardwoods because of greater strength in cold temperatures.New 1 man crosscuts (3 or 4 feet long) are still being made by at least 1 company in Germany,plus a small niche market exists for them here in America.Vintage ones are much more common,are cheaper & have better quality steel than the new ones.
Just talked to my Dad and found out the saws were in the house when he bought it 55 years ago and he said they were old then.. He was glad I took them! Ray
I have 1 of each at my house. An old cross cut that my grandparents cut wood with and a bucking saw that I bought at an antique shop. Neither is rare or valuable really. There thousands of those thingsaround.
That's cool I just like them because my Dad had them.. Sentimental value trumps financial value anytime!
That was a standard saying on all brass saw screws (later nickel plated steel) that were "private labeled" for hardware wholesalers,various department stores such as Montgomery Wards,Sears etc. The big 3 (Henry Disston in Philadelphia,E.C.Atkins of Indianapolis & Simonds of Fitchburg,MA) American saw makers would have these for all their customers.Saws from the big makers always had 1 of those screws with their name & company logo embossed on the wide face.Plus the same along with sometimes extra text or artwork on the sawblade itself.
http://www.criticalpast.com/product...sort_by=&sort_order=asc&month=&day=&q=disston Here are several B & W short silent films from 1920 showing various processes at the Disston Saw Works in Philadelphia.
1930's New Old Stock from long gone hardware store in rural upstate New York. 4 foot 2 man crosscut without wooden handles on the ends.They were sold separately back then.Still has some of the dried protective grease on blade & original factory grind on the teeth.
cool old saws, I have a new one on the way. I am going to learn how to use it to buck logs, plan on getting into shape.
I have had some of these... I bought this one with a Homelite 925, Poulan 305 and Stihl 011, looked to be close to new and you could still make out the Spotless Stores logo on it. Spotless was a chain of store we had in Central Virginia, as I recall they went out of business in the early '60's.
Many of them were sold prior to my move. I kept a couple my father had and got rid of most of the others.
I found two of the old lance-tooth saws (one four-footer and a 6 1/2 footer) in my basement, in the rafters, when we bought the house from my great grandparents. I'm sure they were used in the clearing of the land for our house as it was woods here at one time, by the hand of my great-great- Grandfather and Great Grandfather when they built the place in the teens. I think those saws are a testament to just how hard work was back in the day......you earned every cent of your wage, you earned every piece of firewood or timber..... I'll be cleaning up the 6 1/2 footer, setting the teeth and getting her razor sharp for the FHC GTG in Ohio, maybe we'll drop a tree with it out there if Swags can set something up. And, I'll be hanging it on the beam in the living room after Christmas for a decoration. Just last week I picked up 4 more of the old cross cut saws.....a 5 1/2 foot one or two man saw, a 6 foot two man saw, a 4 foot one man saw and a three foot one man saw, all for under 75 bucks, and all of them are serviceable. The 6 footer is NOS, with the factory grind....got it for 25 clams!! All of them will be cleaned, sharpened, and maybe occasionally used (when I want to take some frustrations out on some hardwood or when they make it so we cannot get good gas for our chainsaws anymore!!), and I plan on making some of them wall hangers for the beams in our house.....
