Some asked to see pics of my buzz saw setup

Bill, my dad had one of those saws when I was a kid and used it all the time in the winter. Cut lots of wood. He used it pretty much the same as you. but cut for a fireplace. Would cut as big as he could backlog to burn all night. Dad passed away, but I have the saw sitting down under the hill. I think I will bring it up and make a place in the yard to set flowers on it. Love the looks of your wood shed. Looks like something the Waltons might use. I don't guess you find too many copperheads in there in the spring do you?

I knew an old guy who got hit by that belt when it broke when he was a kid. It skinned him from ribs to his knee.

Nope Never seen a ch nor a rs. ED Once I had a belt that had got frayed and had a long string that had got unwound off of it. The string was around 5ft long. I walked past the saw and picked up a piece of wood. That thing hit me 2 or 3 times before I could get out of the way with the wood. Felt like Id been whipped

I wa s going to resharpen the blade today. Guess ill do it tomorrow.

My one room school teacher used a part of one of the belts for a paddle and it had holes in it. Boy, it would sting.

My one room school teacher, of which there were 3 different 1 one room schools, one of which the teacher made the older boys go out and cut switches. when she got them limbered up on the older boys she worked her way down. I was in the 2nd or third grade then.

Looks Good.I had one Mounted on the Front of My Tractor and Splitter on the Back.

Had Stationary one had Roller Table making it easier to pull Long pieces up.I would love to have another one set up.

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ive Seen a few of them. Looks like a good idea.

Somebody local had a pto driven one on Craigslist. Had not seen one like it before, but think I'd prefer that to the belts.

Call me a wimp, but personally I'll stick with modern chainsaw.

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That’s the way my grandfather and uncle would cut firewood on the farm. I remember the buzz saw when I was a kid, they wouldn’t let me get near it. Grandpa would split whole tree trunks – mostly oak and maple – with wedges into split-rail-fence-like sections. They could easily lift and cut those “fence rails” with the buzz saw. Back in those days (1950s and 60s) chainsaws were monster back-breaking beasts. They were the size of 15-hp outboard fishing motors.

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Yep CF. I remember all your saying, and about 5yrs earlier. Dad and grandad had a running gear of iron wheels that they used to cut locust trees and other bigger trees they had split into rails so that it could be loaded onto the wagon. I try to haul the whole tree up. Got one on the backside of the wood shed/tool shed now.

John, if u like a pto buzz saw, more power to ya. In operation, theres nothing inhearintly wrong witrh the belt. Ive been useing belts on the saw and hammermill since 68. NEVER had a belt split on me in operation. Ive had some that were splitting, and made a noise so that I could quickly notice it and resplice it, but never one come completly unraveled. Thing I like about the belt, is that I can bring my short stuff and lay it right up next to the saw. Then, I can bring the long stuff up to the saw as close as possible, inline with the saw. With a tractor in the way, I cant really see how one could lay something on my table and cut it if the shaft was hooked to a pto, as the back of the table comes around 6in from the shaft itself. The split would be halted by the tire of the tractor as it was being cut makeing the split continue at an increasing angle. Not good for the blade.

Dad had an old green and red Homelight. It weighed a ton. I know cause I had one when I started farming in 68/.69. Once, a friend I worked with wanted some locust posts. I had a slew of them so I told him to come out. I put the grain racks on my 47 Chevy and he came out with his pk. I knew the saw was tricky so I told him to run the tractor takeing the posts back to the pks and id do the cutting. Well, Id been drinking that night before. And I had to stoop over a bank to cut them way low. The fumes from the saw on its side were blowing up into my face. I got dizzy real quick. He came back and I said I had better run the tractor. We filled mine up flush with the grain racks, and his up flush with his sides and hauled them to St joe Mo, Round 15 miles to his place on the other side of town.

I have a similar old belt driven cordwood saw. Never plucked up the courage to use it though. Probably safer in some ways than a chainsaw.

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I remember the big 2 man chainsaws, in fact I was on the small end of one more that once when I was about 18 years old...

Ive been caught by a chain saw. Never by the buzz saw

MY-OH-MY, I could spend some time at your place! Just look at them old tractors! That buzz saw sure looks wicket! I look at a few on ebay. I have already been cut by my chainsaw which required 7 stiches. I can just imagine what that buzz saw would do to me! Thanks for the pics!

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Like I said. Ive been cut by a chain saw. Never by the buzz saw, and you can se how close my hands are to the blade. Its running full bore and was when I took the pics.

love the photos bill. now I suposse I got to take some around here to post to show you a real buzz saw--lol. mines about the same size but its three point mounted, still uses a belt but when you pick it up the belt gets lose. I like to take the saw to the trees and just bring home cut wood. better stock up on belts if you find them at auction, their gettin hard to find nowadays

Used one a lot when I was a kid - well helped the folks anyhow a lot. Dad made wood for 3 houses here in Minnesota, was most of his winter work. Ours is front mounted on an H tractor.

The pto type I've never used, but work well too. All that I've seen mount crosswise on the 3pt, they actually have a belt pulley that is gear driven by the pto at 90 degrees, so the buzz saw is across the back; it doesn't hook up direct to the pto straight out, pto doesn't run fast enough anyhow.

With the grove, couple tree areas, and the wood lot 3 miles away, I wouldn't want a fixed buzz saw - never actually saw that, they are/were all tractor mounted and moble, so you could ake the saw to the wood, not have to bring the tree to the saw. All depends on the deal you have I guess.

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I guess its me. I much rather bring the tree up to the farmyard and be myself around the house working it up than be down in the woods. Im supposeing that if anything wrong happened, with me here by myself at my age, I wouldnt make it back up to the house. That, and constantly tangling myself in the underbrush, holding a chainsaw, or tripping on some just as I was getting to the buzz saw dont sound too appealing. Ive got another saw thats ment to be front mounted I guess, But ive never rigged it up to a tractor, and I dont know what it was rigged up to when it was brought to the auction.