One work cycle of a mid-50s cordwood saw

Cordwood saw, or buzzsaw, being lowered, cutting some wood, and being raised into the transport position.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Massey
• Harris
• Ferguson
• buzzsaw
• cordwood
• saw
• implement

[clydo1946]

Are you sawing hop hornbeam?

[grandfatherjim]

@clydo1946 It's ironwood

[SLORRIFJART321]

So is the belt tensioned by just lowering the saw?

[grandfatherjim]

@SLORRIFJART321 There is a threaded rod that sets the distance between the pulleys, but in normal use, yes, just lowering it into position tensions it.

[Fentanyl3]

Less idiots back then. people depend on safety devices to be put in the place of common sense. People worked safer back then, and there werent BS lawsuits either.

[SPACECADET2U]

m60wall must be a Husqvarna owner......

[tractordvr]

Thanks for the good old memories! . . .John

[TheTater1984]

my grandfather has one of these and runs it with a old massey tractor, used to scare me to death when i was little, when these babys have a kick back it is no joke

[cokiboki1]

Where is the flywheel ?



[MRSketch09]

I can tell, that is a saw that does not forgive mistakes... it would be the first and last. lol

[clydo1946]

Same thing. It's also called lever wood here in Vermot.

[grandfatherjim]

@imnotahillbilly123 This contraption was built by Massey-Harris-Ferguson.

[BeepBeepBoing]

@Fentanyl3 Well said.

[dave4854]

Ican remember when almost every farm had a buzz saw around somewhere, now it's hard to just find an old blade hanging. chain saw made people lazy, most can't even trim a tree with an axe.