I didn't know they still made and sold these!

[clemsonfor]

Look here at what i saw while browsing the web for lawnmower parts. Its not quite as scary as the old timey time ones but still pretty dangerous.

Vermont Woodsman Buzz Saw

The link to the site selling it.

 

[johnrex62]

Hmmm, weld a couple pins on those legs, rig up a toplink connection and run that critter parallel to the ground it could make a nice brush cutter/feral cat chaser! :laughing:

 

[beenthere]

So, not supposed to sell anything that is dangerous anymore? Hmmm?

 

[TractorRob]

...Its not quite as scary as the old timey time ones but still pretty dangerous...

Looks safer than a chainsaw!

 

[clemsonfor]

Thats not what i meant but i just thought since no one uses new ones they did not make them, maybe from some gov. intervention. Some idiot can get his arm cut off trying to pull a lodged stick from uner his bushhog before cutting it off, but man!

 

[JCB]

For of us worked around those as kids making firewood to heat the home. A belt driven version with a John Deere B. My job was usually to catch the cut off pieces and hand them to my brother on the wagon.

It was crazy dangerous to always work next to a giant spinning blade. I was glad when chainsaws came around.

 

[clemsonfor]

Thats what i was thinking with chainsaws there is a lot less "handling" of the wood for less work and there is no giant spining blade!

 

[Farmerford]

Like JCB I worked around one of those as a kid. In those days, women were women and men were men. And farmers often had a couple of fingers missing (like my aunt!), or an eye (like my grandfather), or a few toes (like my uncle).

 

[Ford tractor]

I thought you were going to post a link to the spiral wedge log splitters that used to allow the logs to spin and whap the snot out of everything and everyone around them. The old Dudley Dowright sawmill blade is tame by comparison --> even if it looks worse.

 

[picker77]

Kind of like this one? This was run from a belt off a Farmall C. Circa 1953, that's me, my dad on the saw behind me, and my Granddad walking away. Check out the safety guard on that blade. Eat your heart out, OSHA. :laughing: