Just picked up a one man saw ($35!) in need of a little sharpening, but only a little. I'd love to see more details on this, but learned a lot just from this simple demo. Thanks!
heck yeah!!! awesome, love it, I always wanted a "D" handle CC w/ a vert grip on the end. I dont think I'd ever use it but I have a few tools that realy dont get used.
I have one of those I kind of bowed it a little and bolted it to the wall and put some Planks on top of it and kind of made a shelf out of it over my workbench looks pretty awesome
I’m restoring my great grandpas old Simonds 6ft that I found in the rafters of my grandpas garage. It was put away 45 years ago and my grandpa used it as a kid in the 40’s! Also, who makes those jeans? I want a pair!
Actually, both saws are "one man" saws, you can tell by the thickness/gauge of the metal of the saw. A "two man" saw is lighter gauge and thinner through the body usually 10-14 foot in length. You would take the bucking saw out in the morning, use it all day (under normal conditions.) At the end of the day, you woould pull your handle, leave the saw under whatever you were bucking to keep it out of the weather. Take the handle with you back to camp . Next day, reverse the saw with the handle on the opposite end, buck all day and at the end of the day, bring your saw in and exchange it with the other saw assigned to you. Fallers left their saw in the woods also usually hanging from a wedge driven in to the tree. they would use their saw anywhere from 2-3 days depending on the wood they were cutting. Grandfather taught me to file saws, he worked as a faller and a windfall bucker. Later he went filing. If a man treated his saw poorly, the filer saw that he was fired.
A few years ago I lucked out and got a one man crosscut with both handles on Ebay for a good price, don't recall what price but probably around $50 seeing as I was poor and in college at the time. It cleaned up really well. I'd gotten a two man cheap at a junk store in Memphis a few years prior for about $40 but it's hard for me to find folks willing to help out with bucking wood :D