Buzz saw...

a lot of folks buy their wood or cut it in 1 meter lengths then bring it home and cut it up out of the weather. Chainsaw isn't the best choice for working in a garage or shop for obvious reasons. These saws really make short work of a pile of wood. This one isn't mine but the same as what I have and zoomed thru a pile of old rafters today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8-ya5Z_CB0&feature=relmfu

Thats slicker than grease on a door knob! I coulda used that
last week, cutting up a bunch of limb wood my friend gave
us.!! Lol

I am working on setting up an old buzz saw, it is not all nice and
shiny like that one but I am hoping it will do a good job cleaning up
the slab pile by the sawmill. Just waiting for the belt lacing to come
and then I also need to sharpen the blade. Do you have one of your
own or did you borrow one?
Zach

That's an art sharpening those blades. There used to be a guy by Saratoga lake that would sharpen them.!

That's a neat saw and log holder. Another idea to speed up cutting branches is like what's shown in the picture. I haven't been doing much with smaller branches, but in times past I made a rack from scrap lumber (along the idea of what's shown in the picture-- but longer with 4 places to cut). I set this rack on my log carrying trailer so the pieces dropped into the trailer and I didn't have to pick them up to haul them to the stack. I used my 26" bar chainsaw, it made a lot of pieces in a hurry, actually almost took longer to load the rack than do the cutting.

My own.... Buy SWMBO flowers, jewelry, and things to relax for Christmas, anniversary, and birthdays..She buys me stuff to work :roll:
Pretty slick, runs on 380 volts. The saw and a little 5 ton splitter make things go smooth. Can be as nasty as it wants to be outside, just have to go with the carryall and fill it with wood then come home to the barn to cut and split (if needed) dry and out of any wind and have plenty of light...

What's swmbo??

the wife... she who must be obeyed

Speaking of buzz saws, here's my dad using one he made long ago from scratch- he was good at making things. He took measurements from a factory made one and made this. He was good at sharpening blades too. 3 point hitch was nice because there's no set up time for moving, When you lift the saw the belt tension loosens, and when you put it on the ground it's tight.

What kind of HP we talking about on that Youtube version. Really seems like it's got some power.

Back about 1960 dadhad a buzz saw mounted on the front of the 350. Nt fancy like those. Just a couple of oak timbers with the aw blde on n arbor, and a steel plate to slide the logs on.My brother and I "got to"run t one day ,cutting u some logs. I dn'tthink it would pass muster these days, with no guards, etc, (we were 14 & 12 at the time)

(quoted from post at 20:09:10 11/17/12) What kind of HP we talking about on that Youtube version. Really seems like it's got some power.

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5.5 HP.... Cuts thru up to 9 inch logs like butter. Used it on 100+ year old rafters and beams today. Blade needs sharpened soon (nails), but want to finish up the scrap pile then sharpen it frest for real firewood.

I quit burning wood and gave this Buss Saw to my Neighbor. You can saw up a 2 ton truck load in an hour. 36" blade. Log lays on table and you pull the blade into the log.

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You could have done that, it was on here 2 weeks ago.

That sure brings back some good memories! I didn"t
think it was so good at the time, but now they are
priceless. I got married in the fall of 1958, and
set up housekeeping, in a farmhouse with no elect,
a hand drawn well for water,an outhouse, for a
bathroom, and wood heat. the guy I worked for had
quite a bit of wooded acreage, and let me cut
firewood from his land. I bought a new Homelite
buzz chainsaw(my first saw), and virginia and I
would go out and make enough wood to last her thru
the next day, till I could get home and do the
same thing the next night.Huuled the wood home in
the trunk of our 50 chevy 2 door car. Sundays
after church we would make wood for the next
week.I was able to buy an old 36 chevy car that
had been sitting for years, but still ran ok. I
think I gave $7.00 for it. I took my chopping axe
and cut the rear portion of the body off, right
behind the drivers seat, and left the frame and
rear tires sticking out. I mounted a buzz saw
shaft and bearings across the frame directly above
the rear wheels. I would jack up the left rear
tire, and put a 6" wide flat belt on it and over
the saw pulley. the jacking up would tighten the
belt. I soon learned to block the front and rear
wheels, after the bumper jack leaned over and let
the car down, in low gear, and the throttle pulled
out. Not a fun thing to happen. Our second winter
was a lot better, for wood supply due to the old
buzz saw, and a side benifit, was I was forced to
learn how to pour babbit bearings. I never could
get the saw bearing to hold more than 5 uses. They
really were the good old days, we were both young,
and in love, and pulled togeather, to make do. I
sure do miss her!

is that a wide front john deere mt? look at the size of the teeth on that blade! Bill

Wife and I (both 64 now) and our kids were cutting and splitting wood the other day- we were reminiscing about how the two of us would go out after getting home from work, and cut, split and load a pickup load of wood before dark. We still get out there and do the best we can, but its a far cry from when we were young. Just keep pluggin', I guess. . .

I have two Dearborn three point buzz saws and 6 or 7 good blades.

Though I do not burn wood and do not use the saws, I had all of the blades sharpened about 10 years ago because the local "old pro" who has been sharpening just about everything in the area for decades is well up in years and I know of no one else who can sharpen them properly.

Dean

As a kid in the 39's we had a saw that fit on the drawbar on our Farmall A with a belt to the pully on the back. Get where your going, drop the saw frame to the ground a' crank the tractor and saw away. The saw gad a movable table that slid the wood into the blade.

Yes it is. First Tractor I ever bought myself. Still have it, and just ordered three rid tires for it. The Saw will go through a 18" log just about as fast as you can pull the handle.

I spent a good many hours cutting wood with the buzz saws over the years. I don't burn wood anymore myself but get to help my brother cut wood most winters. He has about 25 horsepower running the saw. Using the Wisconsin V4 that originally powered dad's Case model A combine. I have several videos on youtube but this one is the most recent from 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz7J6aO8Wrc
20 years ago we were running the same equipment in this video.
Those noisy little kids in the background of this one are now helping take the work load off the "old timers".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSEQcuPNYG0

I have a PTO driven one thats a 3pt hitch works great for kindling and small rounds,plus with it on the 3pt I can move it easily anytime I want.