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Is this a ice saw
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Those who say it is a hay saw are correct. I took my Hay saw out one day to cut ice. I kept very warm in 10 degree weather sawing about 4 inches in 4 inch ice for about 2 minutes. I stopped for 5 minutes to loosen my jacket and take off my hat when it froze into the cut. It took a trip back to the wood shed to get the ax to get it chopped out. My oh my we are loosing it now. 10% of my manufacturing class students do not know what a hack saw looks like. University engineering students!!!! Jim
 
I understood it was a ice saw. Back in the day hay was put up loose no need to cut. After balers no need to cut.
 
Hay saw. 5here is still one in the hayloft from the good old days when they mowed long straw. My dad chopped hay and straw.
 
When hay is stacked loose it compresses and becomes difficult to move in chunks with the appropriate 3 tined pitch fork. To keep the mow neat, the knife was (is) used to shear the edges where walking is done. A fork can then pick up 20# of hay because it stays layered. It must be kept very sharp to work and it was honed often. They are also pretty interesting as a weapon because the handles create a firm grip on a scimitar. Jim
 
There are pictures on the web if you google Antique Ice saws (some are mistaken to be ice saws but are hay saws) the link is a real saw. The hay saw has no set and has no rake or teeth, just cutting edges. Jim
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(quoted from post at 15:48:35 01/16/18) Is this a ice saw
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That is a hay knife...I have a couple of those too.
When hay was mowed away totally by hand and it was done correctly, there was no need for a hay knife...you simply took the hay out in the opposite rotation that you put it in.
If it wasn't mowed away properly or if a hay fork and trolley was used, it was sometimes necessary to cut the hay to get it out of the mow.
Well, that's what my ol' man told me......by the time I got old enuf to put in hay, we had a baler. My older brother and sister were not so fortunate.
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Well, here is my hay knife. If you look at your knife, it has a thin edge where the teeth are. The blade gets thicker at the top, just like a steak knife. That blade will wedge into ice trying to cut it. Saw teeth need a "SET" to cut ice.
Loose hay packed very tightly in the bottom of the mow. It was necessary to slice off sections to get it out to feed. Also back when balers first were used, they were stationary, and mowed loose hay was baled in the mows during winter months. In the pic you can see where the hay has been sliced down with a hay knife, at the sides of the baler.
Loren
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Well, maybe I'm gonna hafta climb up in the attic of the old farm house and dig out an ice saw and take a picture.
Naw, this is easier.

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I have my great grandfaathers ice saw in the basement. This one looks lik,e a big timber crosscut saw but when you look at the teeth on they are different. My grandmother told me that there was a lake a short ways from their farm and the whole neighborhood would get togather and cut ice until everyones ice house was full. I am sure it probably looked like the pictures post earlier on here
 
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