Here is my new table saw!

[Donald Hofmann]

:rolleyes: Here is a pix of my new table saw. :D :p :) :rolleyes:

[Greg Griswold]

Nice!! And I see, it has the mobility kit.

Greg

[Shelley Bolster]

Now with that baby, I would definately recommend a blade guard! I'm guessing it's a 2 1/2 horsepower? :rolleyes: (as in the 2 standing and one laying down)
Shelley

[markus shaffer]

And to think I wasted my money on a Felder.. Looks like you wouldn't even need a bandsaw to do resawing with that monster.. Talk about a combo machine...

[Thomas Canfield]

Where is the OSHA approved guard and dust collection system? It takes one back to the "good old days" that we don't want to go back to. The modern wood miser and chain saw setups have a lot going for them compared to this type of operation.

[Donald Hofmann]

That pix was taken around 1950. It is a 1924 IH "regular" tractor. In those days all tractors had a pulley for belt work. We also used the belt to run one of our milking machines during times that the power was out.

The saw wasn't used for sawing lumber, just stove wood.
My dad and grandfather use to pick up the old cross ties from the railroad and cut them up on this saw for firewood to be burned in the kitchen wood stove.
The EPA would have had a fit--- burning cross ties treated with cresote!!!

The tractor is long gone, but I still have both saw blades. One developed a crack while being used, so my dad drilled a hole in the saw at the top of the crack, so that the crack wouldn't get any bigger.........

[Tyler Howell]

Too Cool Don,

Remember your eye protection and push stick.;)

[Lou Morrissette]

Throw in left tilt and a Bies fence and now your talking!:D

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I notice it's got segmented infeed and outfeed tables too! :rolleyes: Wow! :D

[Donald Hofmann]

The hardest thing to do is to cut at an angle.

You have to jack up one side of the saw's frame and one side of the tractor.
Talk about precision angles.......:)

[Frank Pellow]

WOW does that bring back memories. In 1958, we used a saw blade about that size hooked up to almost exactly that tractor. The big difference is that we did have fairly long infeed and outfeed tables. We used the saw to produce boards from trees that we cut from the farm's woodlot; then we haulted the logs out of the woodlot to the saw with a team of horses. The team could be the pair that I see in the background of your photo.

Thanks for the memories!

[Jerry Olexa]

Looks like a precision rig with lots of safety built in! And you could probaly cut over 1" stock. Good pix. Jerry

[Jim Ketron]

There is a old sawmill close to where I live that still uses a tractor for power!
Jim

[Terry Hatfield]

Donald,

Cool...but...the first word that popped into my head when I saw the pic was........

DISMEMBERMENT!!!!

Neat pic though.

Terry

[Andy London]

I have a 1950 International Super H with the Belt drive on the side, have only used it a couple of times.

As a kid I have seen quite a few of these mills on farms, kind of a scary setup based on what we know today.

<img src="http://www.picframer.ca/images/tractor.jpg">

Andy

[Rob Russell]

Up on the family farm, next town over, my uncle still has a cordwood saw run by an OLD Dodge truck engine. Big ole leather belt runs the saw - blade must be at least 24", maybe 30".