Crosscut Saw Thread

moosecreektrails said:
No, do you? My grandpa had one But it was a tree climer that used a smaller saw blade

but he local histrorical socity got it 20 years ago,:thumbdn:
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No Moose, I don't. I just thought that you might well have one. I have ownly seen them on youtube. If I run across one I will give you a heads up. Looks like you need one:).
 
moosecreektrails said:
Going out to NJ to work in the great swamp wilderness for a week.When I get back plan on building a electrolysis cleaner
to speed up the cleaning.
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Built one this weekend and ran four saws through it. Worked while I slept and removed all rust. Appears to be a great way to clean a saw.

If you build a removable partition in the tank, you can adjust it for the size of your saws. I did 4-footers in this one:

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bearhunter said:
Dang Moose, that's just crazy :eek:
Where in the world do you find all this stuff?
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Lucky recently.
Will post pictures of axes I just found on the east cost. 26 miles from NYC:)(AXE/Crosscut TRAINING ,THIS JOB SUCKS);
Also just got 2 axes from operator off bay:thumbup: My first Connecticut ,that will be my new saddle axe.Thanks I will give it a good home.
 
moosecreektrails said:
Lucky recently.
Will post pictures of axes I just found on the east cost. 26 miles from NYC:)(AXE/Crosscut TRAINING ,THIS JOB SUCKS);
Also just got 2 axes from operator off bay:thumbup: My first Connecticut ,that will be my new saddle axe.Thanks I will give it a good home.
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Nice!
It's good to hear that you got that Connecticut. I've got one of those and trust me... Your going to absolutely love it :cool:
 
We did a bunch of crosscut work out on the trails today. We had a master sawyer instructing us in some of the finer points of clearing trails. Here we're cutting an elevated cedar. We're going to use this wood for some trail structures later so we didn't want this cut to slab as we were finishing the cut. We've underbucked a v-groove in the botton of the log. We're just getting ready to wedge the top cut so it doesn't pinch the saw.

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Here are 8' and 10' cedar sections we've cut. These will be used to create turnpikes and to block access to motorized vehicles.

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Here's a 12' section another crew has cut.

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Two sawyers making cuts at opposing angles to create a 'roll-away' cut. If this piece rolls to the left it will lodge against a tree and block the trail. The angle cuts will only let it roll to the right.

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Goin' old school! Striking wooden wedges with a trail-made 'bonker' made out of holly - a very tough heavy wood.

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The 12' section of 24" Doug Fir rolled cleanly away.

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I never did count the rings in this tree. I'd estimate it to be about 100 years old.

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A testament to a well-tuned saw. This cut is flat as a pancake.

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Hope you enjoyed the slide show.
 
You can see the difference of cut in dry wood if you stay tuned up to the end if the film. The saw is more of a pleasure to use for cutting round and still green wood.

[video=vimeo;40409318]http://vimeo.com/40409318[/video]

E. DB.
 
Great pictures Peggy. Worth mentioning, I think, that if your saw does not pull noodles and you are still happy with how it cuts, thats the main thing. I spent way too much time on otherwise fast and easy cutting saws that just wouldn't pull noodles because of the raker angles. Some of my favorite saws only pull coarse chippy sawdust. But boy, green sugar maple loves to noodle, like 2 and a half inch long ones a lot of times.
 
These saws cut like the dickens and only occasionally would pull out a long noodle. But we were cutting softwoods, Cedar and Doug Fir. Both were lance tooth saws with the cutters offset by .012 and the rakers dropped .011. They pulled almost effortlessly. They're designed as double buck saws but we were only using them with one handle. Our instructor is a firm supporter of single bucking.

One thing this guy does differently, he cuts his lance teeth almond-shaped like you'd see on a Tuttle or Champion tooth saw. He also anneals his rakers so he can peen them without worry of chipping.
 
Square_peg said:
One thing this guy does differently, he cuts his lance teeth almond-shaped like you'd see on a Tuttle or Champion tooth saw. He also anneals his rakers so he can peen them without worry of chipping.
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Yup, thats a Warren Miller style softwood cutter. Real sharp and sword like. I like them like that.
 
moosecreektrails said:
But with all your axes,:) you didn't bring 1?
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I had my Pulaski with me and I took out one fall with it. ;)
Our instructor brought a 2-1/2 pound HB and a 3-1/2 pound Jersey both on 30" straight octagon handles. They were both nice axes. Sorry I didn't take photos.


trailtime said:
The woman sawyer looks to be using a felling saw (513?). You can wedge in sooner on those. Nice work!
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The two sawyers in the 4th photo are both women and both good strong trail hands, too. And those are both bucking saws but one has had the back bellied out to receive wedges. Good eye!
 
Looks like I will be reading through this whole thread here sometime soonish. I have recently acquired an approximately 7 foot crosscut saw.

I was on the jobsite a few weeks back and noticed an old crosscut saw laying in the grass next door. I asked the neighbor about it and he said he didn't know where he got it or really anything much about it. He is cleaning up his yard and generally getting ready to "remodel" or basically build a new house around one or two walls of the existing house. So, the other day he asked if I would be interested in the saw. I don't really know much about them but I eventually agreed to take the saw off his hands for free.

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I think I will be doing an electrolysis bath on it to see what I can see under the rust. Then I will need to figure out how to sharpen it and fit a second handle on it.

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I hope to someday hear this baby sing.
 
Could be some good steel beneath all that crust. Suggest you build an electrolysis tank to de-rust it and the handle hardware.
 
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