Hows this for some OLD ARN

[John Hedges]

I was out with the family at a pumpkin patch farm when I came across this being used as a decoration. Funny thing is the blade was sharp as heck (almost cut myself just touching it), so I think it is actually still used to cut up firewood. The whole table is on rails and slides, but only a foot or so (eliminates the chance for kickback as the stock would never go past the back half of the blade. The whole thing is on a sled like it was made to be pulled around by a tractor or horse, so I think it was used to cut up trees into firewood (just a guess). There is no motor but looks like it is made to be hooked up to a pulley system. Anyway thought the old arn afficianados here might like this.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/hedgehog55/old%20saw/DSC06258.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/hedgehog55/old%20saw/DSC06259.jpg

[John Hedges]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/hedgehog55/old%20saw/DSC06260.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/hedgehog55/old%20saw/DSC06261.jpg

[John Hedges]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/hedgehog55/old%20saw/DSC06262.jpg

[Tyler Howell]

John,
I don't see an OSHA or UL sticker on it:confused: :rolleyes:,
Good find.
Thanks for sharing.

[John Hedges]

Yeah Tyler I know better than to post something like that without any pictures. BTW I also noticed that there was an outhouse close by. I was assuming that was to change your shorts after actually trying to use this thing.:p

[Alan DuBoff]

Funny, the blacksmith over at Ardenwood Historical Farm had a similar old table saw he was selling recentely, smaller blade. He had stuck it on ebay, but nobody bid on it.

The one I looked at had a foot pedal to lift/move the blade while it spun.

That look wild, great yard accessory, maybe I should try and get the one from Ardenwood to do the same...:eek:

Funny that Ardenwood Historical Farm also has a pumpkin patch...this one pictured was not over there, was it? Maybe the pumpkin patches are cornering the market on flat belt table saws...:D

[Andy Hoyt]

We had something very similar when I was a kid. Mounted to the three point hitch on our old Allis Chalmers (In is on - Out is off) and was driven by a 6" (+/-) wide leather belt hooked up to the drive pulley/drum thingie on the tractor. Was a beast to run and dad wouldn't let us near it, except to act as loader and unloader. Would buck firewood like mad and at a 25 cord per winter consumption rate that was an important feature. Got retired as soon as the old man discovered someone had invented the chainsaw.

[Mark Rios]

That's a great piece. But..................



Where is the riving knife and the Sawstop cartridge?







:D

[Chris Rolke]

i am a member of an antique tractor club and we have a demo at our show

its roughly a 30" diameter blade

http://thefarmclub.org/gallery/Oederslake2006/dsc06359.jpg

http://thefarmclub.org/gallery/Oederslake2006/dsc06358.jpg

http://thefarmclub.org/gallery/Oederslake2006/dsc06356.jpg

i actually had 3 logs cut up by this guy ( oak ) total cost was $20 :):)


we have a cut off saw that runs off of a belt pulley for a tractor never been real keen about wanting to use it ( probably 18"- 20" diameter blade)

it just looks scary

[Jack Hutchinson]

looks like - but with a sliding table (earlier design?) instead of a (vocabulary fails me here) v-shapped table which pivots past the blade. Belt driven off an agricultural tractor. Still see them in use occasionally in rural New England. Used to buck up cordwood. There's a modern PTO driven one here: http://www.unionfarmequip.com/equipused/images/usedequip/CON00545-b.jpg

[Bill Neely]

Buzz saw.:eek:

[Ray Moser]

In the days before chainsaws were a common consumer item we had what Dad called a buzz saw. It had a blade that was somewhere between 30 to 36". It was powered by a belt running off a tractor power takeoff pully and we cut up a lot of firewood with that thing. It made a nasty whirring/buzzing sound when it ran and although I had to help by removing wood as Dad cut it, I tried to stay as far away as possible. There were no guards and you stayed safe by paying attention as to what you were doing.

[Brent Grooms]

finally I get to see what one looks like! I was given a blade for one that once belonged to my grandfather. Once I get some cleaning done it and some of the logging saws will go up on to the walls.

[Kyle Kraft]

As stated earlier, its a buzz saw, with a flat belt drive next to the big, heavy flywheel. The Challenge Co. from Batavia also made a version of my favorite country machine....the water pumping windmill.

[Bill White]

Friend of mine had the rig hooked to a John Deere model MT. Scare the bejesus out o' ya if you were up close.
Bill

[Steve Evans]

We used a buzz saw like Jack posted up until about ten years ago when we stoppped heating with wood. Several times faster than a chainsaw, and a lot safer on the small stuff. Man you could cut up a bunch of limbwood in one day.

Steve