Cutting firewood

Nice video! My ex father in law had a pto driven buzz saw, I helped him cut wood on it about 15 years ago, I don't think the saw slowed down like yours? It looks like they're pushing the wood threw to fast?? As long as it gets cut is all that matters! I had a old buzz saw, but I traded it away for a load of firewood! Lol
 
(quoted from post at 21:08:09 03/18/19) Nice video! My ex father in law had a pto driven buzz saw, I helped him cut wood on it about 15 years ago, I don't think the saw slowed down like yours? It looks like they're pushing the wood threw to fast?? As long as it gets cut is all that matters! I had a old buzz saw, but I traded it away for a load of firewood! Lol
Yes, we stalled the blade on a few logs but sometimes it slices through like nothing. Belt slippage is an issue. That multi rib v belt running flat side down might work better if it had the V side down. Either way it is not a problem if the blade slows down or stalls. Just rotate the log and cut from the other side to finish the cut.
I'm working on the splitting video next.
 
When I was small it seems everyone around us had a buzz saw, In Jan and Feb you could hear them ringing as they cut more wood for the rest of the winter. If I remember right most of these were driven off the belt pulley on a tractor
 
My dad's sawmill had a cutoff saw with a rolling carriage. We cut all the slabs and edgings to length for firewood. Wood went up a conveyor into a dumptruck(1952 Studebaker 2 ton) for delivery. Everything was powered by the IH UD18 power unit and belts. We were sure busy to keep up with lumber, slabs and all. We used to stand the slabs on edge slide them in front of the saw then flop them down into the saw to go faster then leaving them flat and moving the carriage back and forth.
 
I still have the buzz saw my dad built back in the late 40s but it doesn't see a lot of use today. It started out as a saw on a trailer with the v4 Wisconsin and later mounted on Farmall B. The chainsaws do most of the work today.
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We had a buzz saw mounted on the front of a CASE SC. It cut limb wood for 3 houses and a maple syrup operation. It had a roller carriage that ran in the channel iron frame to feed the limbs.
I can remember a lot of close calls with that thing. Pretty scary when a limb binds on the blade, or falls of and the blade catches it and sends it flying.
It also got a workout in the spring sharpening fence posts.
Loren
 
(quoted from post at 06:28:04 03/19/19) I still have the buzz saw my dad built back in the late 40s but it doesn't see a lot of use today. It started out as a saw on a trailer with the v4 Wisconsin and later mounted on Farmall B.
That 3 point mounted saw looks real handy. I've seen one mounted on the front of a tractor driven off the belt pulley. Most here were just pegged to the ground and belted to the tractor. I used to help my uncles cut firewood with the little JD AR. This pic was the last time we did that job.
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(quoted from post at 07:17:55 03/19/19) Enjoyed the video. I think I am too independent to fit into that group but it is an interesting perspective. It bears out my philosophy that there is more than one way to do just about everything. ADB
Its true, I was going to make that comment too about us being too independent to work together in a Co-op. Especially today. Back in the early days it might have worked better because neighbours really needed each other's help at times and it was common to get a crew together to get a big job done. But this was the only Co-op farming that I knew of in the area. There were others. Like the Matador Co-op farm from the 1940s.
 
That pile of wood that the gentlemen is setting next to looks like it was cook stove wood by its size.
 

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