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Buzz Saw
By: Chainsawrepair Date: November 18, 2015, 2:36 pm
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Been thinking and looking at buzzsaws for some reason. Just
interesting I guess.
New ones
HTML http://www.newhavenpower.com/Woodsman250_Buzz_Saw.html
[img width=600
height=525]
HTML http://www.newhavenpower.com/Buzz_Saw_Tray_Blade.jpg[/img]
Old buzzsaw
HTML http://images.craigslist.org/00v0v_d24LrBarjel_600x450.jpg
HTML http://images.craigslist.org/00S0S_kIURSaLVw4e_600x450.jpg
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Re: Buzz Saw
By: 660magnum Date: November 18, 2015, 3:03 pm
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My great uncle had one like that back in the late 40's/early
50's. I remember piles of firewood being around it. They both
heated and cooked with wood.
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Re: Buzz Saw
By: Al Smith Date: November 18, 2015, 8:06 pm
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I've got a 30" buzz saw in the woods I haven't used for 30 years
.On small stuff you can really pile up the fire wood in a hurry
.
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Re: Buzz Saw
By: old guy Date: November 18, 2015, 8:34 pm
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As a kid I spent many hours on one of those, I always chose to
catch the sawed off block and throw it on the pile. On a still
fall day in the early 1950s you could usually hear one running
somewhere, it was ching! ching! ching! when small wood was
cut or the long drawn out scream of the blade as it went through
a 12" piece of red oak. Only the old guys know that sound. This
was BC.
John
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Re: Buzz Saw
By: RoyM Date: November 18, 2015, 9:30 pm
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I remember it well too, my dad would buy a load of slabs from
the mill for the furnace and have the neighbor come in with one
on a Ford N series. I was chief (and sole) packer and stacker.
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Re: Buzz Saw
By: 660magnum Date: November 18, 2015, 9:59 pm
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My great uncle's had a flat belt drive from his Farmall "A" PTO
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Re: Buzz Saw
By: Al Smith Date: November 19, 2015, 4:11 am
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Mine is a flat belt also. It's similar to the first one pictured
.It can either be 3 point hitch mounted or staked down .I
normally staked it and powered it with an old Oliver HG crawler
of about 20 HP .
Around 1980 we took off a 5 acre woods of big hickory and small
ash .Terrible waste but it was either salvage the saw logs and
firewood or they would fall to the mighty D8 Cats come spring
.The buzz saw worked great for the 6 to 10" ash.
We sold the hickory for I suppose axe handles .The tops were
firewood plus the ash .My field looked like a log lot for a
couple of years until we buzzed up the ash .There was so much of
it I don't think I cut any for 4 or 5 years after that .
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