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

[johnrex62]

Yep, that was back in the days before you had to be 18 to legally touch a powered tool. And today they are trying to figure out why men don't grow up at the same early age they did 50 years ago and why they are less skilled upon joining the workforce.

 

[jimmysisson]

Main thing is, they were used when more people used wood kitchen ranges and they don't take big wood. You quickly get tired of lifting logs and balancing it on those moving tables. Those in the pic seem bigger than I'd like to use on a saw rig. They don't seem that dangerous when you're running it, but maybe it's just your adrenaline lying to you.
Jim

 

[beenthere]

No more dangerous than standing on the platform alongside the subway tracks just inches away, or standing on the curb as 30+ mph traffic whizzes by just inches away.
The spinning blade is just inches away, and a wrong move will whisk away a finger or arm.

We used to ride on a tractor with no fenders, just standing on the axle. Doesn't mean fenders are not good. But now, people go into a panic attack if anyone rides, or if there isn't a ROPS, or if the seatbelt isn't in use.

But for danger, they have carnival rides that haul people 50 to 100 feet in the air and drop them into a net (but near here a few weeks ago, the parents of a 13 yr old girl watched as she was dropped, except the operator of the net forgot to raise it up to catch her fall). So people seek danger, now that they don't get it while working or growing up maybe ??

I liked to hear the ziiinnng of the buzz saw blade cutting the wood. And making firewood from a pile of tops was enjoyable, and necessary.
Chainsaws were around in the 50's but not anything like the lightweight models we have now. Some of them weighed about as much as the wood pole/sticks that had to be picked up to run through the buzz saw. And the buzz saw was a far superior tool than the old buck saw and saw buck.

 

[consaka]

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!

yeah the gov got to protect those idiots. how else will we get more idiots in our countries gene pool?

 

[consaka]

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).

Just think. If the government had been protecting them none of that would have happened. and you would have to cut all your wood with blunt rocks.

 

[mooseracing]

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!

Depending on wood size, the buzz saw is alot quicker, and will work alot longer in dirty wood.

Common sense goes along way though.

 

[clemsonfor]

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:

I think i would have made a plywood box to atleast cover the back half of that blade back in da day. But then again i grew up in todays society like one poster said why men dont grow up at such an early age and are less skilled.

I think i ended up with a lot of grandfather and his generation in me. If i dont know how to do something i ask and then go for it or the reverse. Its tore up what harm can i do to it. That and i dont want to pay the type money people want for certain things when i will just be sitting on the couch while they work. I can do far more than many of the guys i grew up with. I do things that they would never attempt nor have the clue how to. The funny thing is that it really is not a function of income as i earn more than the 2 im thinking of right now. Although 1 is worse than the other but then again he when combined with his wife make more than my wife an i, but if i made more it would still be the way it is.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Mount it upside down and you can grind stumps out.:thumbsup:

Chris

 

[JCB]

yeah the gov got to protect those idiots.

Con,

The government had very little to do with me no longer wanting to use a buzz saw. Like moose said they can cut FASTER than a chain, but lifting logs all day....I'm glad I was too young to worry about a sore back. We use a chain saws for the same reason we use an angle grinder more than a bench grinder.

 

[JCB]

I think i would have made a plywood box to atleast cover the back half of that blade back in da day.

Clem,

I was thinking the one you posted looked pretty good compared to what we used. It amazes me that my dad let all four of us work around those things.

I doubt there are too many guys on this forum who'd want their grand kids working around one catching the cut-off's all day. If anyone would...more power to you, I just wouldn't have the stomach for it anymore.

Joe