I Don't Like Chain Saws

I don't know why exactly, but I've never liked chain saws. Even as a kid, I'd hear them in the distance, on our neighbor's farm and I didn't like them. My pop cut our wood with this buzz saw. We sharpened hedge-apple fence posts with this saw too. I restored it a few years ago. Put a military surplus 10 hp motor on it. Works great.



I kept slicing away at this monster.....



Until I reduced him to this:



All comments welcome, even those predicting my immediate demise.

 

Maybe a motorcycle engine with a Two Brothers pipe attached is in it’s future. Cool machine, I’ve never seen anything like it before.

 

Now that'd be cool. I could attach it to the front of my truck and terrorize motorists who got in my way!!!

 

Pretty cool!

 

Cool never saw one of those before

 

Now that is outstanding, and I would love to see it cutting. If the urge ever strikes you, a video of this machine in action would be great.

 

I would love to post a video but I don't have one of them new-fangled cell phones that take videos. Maybe I can get my nephew to take one tho.

My brother hates this saw, and says one of these days the blade is going to come off under full power and travel hundreds of yards, slicing up people and cows alike. But that really can't happen. The very large nut that holds the blade on is a left-hand thread, it tightens up against the arbor with an allen wrench, and it acts like a clutch against the blade--if that big nut somehow loosens, the blade will have nothing driving it. Other people are scared of it because of the size of the blade, but it's a good 5 feet from the operator. Even if I fell forward I wouldn't come in contact with it. Now I DID have a kickback situation with it ONE time. Kicked a piece of log back against the wheel pretty hard. Since then I've learned to minimize the possibility of kick-back by the way I attack the log. Very large trunks, like the one in the picture above are so heavy they won't move around. It's cross-cutting smaller logs I have to worry about.

 

The blade is carbide toothed, and 26" in diameter. It cuts a kerf narrower than a chain saw.

 

OSHA would love that thing! I kinda like it myself. It would be really really badazz with tracks and some type of clamping or hold down mechanism.

 

One hell of a machine! And people complaining about todays saws weight wise.
I came across this piece of history...

 

Wow.......that's pretty freaking cool !!!!
Great job on the restoration !
Looks like it does a fine job

 

I just took the time to watch that video...that was really cool ! Very inspirational !!!
Neat to see the old equipment...and the old way of doing things

 

I had found that video too. That's what mine is like too--the blade arbor swings down to cut horizontally. My pop also mowed our lawn with this beast--it had several attachments.
It had the solid wheels like the one in the video, but the solid rubber tires had come off and I couldn't find a replacement for them, so I found spoked wheels. However I did make use of one of the curved steel wheels when I made my chimney cap. The wheel was curved, like a disc blade. And it sheds rain well.

 

Hahaha. It's the stuff of OSHA's nightmares. My brother is a building inspector and he HATES it!! Hahahaha.

 

Love it !!

 

Oh yeah!

 

I used it in the 1970's to cut firewood. The old Tecumseh engine was still running then. I'd load the thing into my van and head out for the woods!
I restored it about 5-6 years ago. At first I tried to get the Tecumseh engine rebuilt, but no one, anywhere could even find the engine's serial number in their books, and no shop wanted to touch it.
So I got the military surplus engine for it. It's a 2-cyl engine. No electric start. It's an interesting engine. I'll try to find my info on it and post it.

 

They have a couple of those types of saws up at Lennard Woods which is a loggers museum here . Pretty neat to say the least.

The oldest mechanized saw I ever saw was out of an 1896 book that showed what amounted to a mechanized cross cut saw. It was propelled in the same manner that fog horns of lighthouses were driven, which was by a weight that upon falling, drew the saw blade back and forth across the log. It was used when paper started to really get cranking in the woods and wood needed to be cut into 4 foot lengths to be processed at the paper mill.