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It was belt driven. I never thought to take it to a gtg.....when is the next gtg near Indiana??? Anyone???
 
There are lots of derelict saws laying around in the bush and most were downright scary to use. I would hate to be holding the handles on yours if it kicked back. Still, faster than a hand saw and improvements did come.
 
Kind of like this one?

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How many limbs where lost be for the improvements, and by limbs i mean arms and legs
 
Could you imagine the product liability and safety features needed on something like that if it was manufactured today? There would be so many guards, safety switches and other crap nobody would use the thing!
 
AOD said:
Could you imagine the product liability and safety features needed on something like that if it was manufactured today? There would be so many guards, safety switches and other crap nobody would use the thing!
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Heck even if it had guards, I still wouldn't want to be behind the handlebars.
 
How much safer could the make it? You're more than 4' away from the blade, and if it did kick back it would safely sail over your head as long as you kept your arms straight.

Where can I get one?

We used to cut up slabs on a buzz saw mounted to the front of the Allis Chalmers WC, flat belt driven off the PTO pulley on the side of the transmission. No guards anywhere on that thing. You could feel the wind coming off the blade on that thing...

Mark
 
A budy of mine worked at a mill and one of the big circular crosscut blades exploded and a large section of it came through the "bulletproof" shield in front of him and stuck in the wall 30 feet behind his head. He quit that day and never went back
 
Looks similar an old Hargan swing saw.
I know blokes that still use widow makers like that.
Here's some pics I found of the Hargan saw.

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A mate of mine used to use one in the bush, he reckons they are deadly. One bloke was using one once, had the blade let go and went flying across a nearby highway ! (the blade can swing and rotate in any direction)

There's an old timer that lives on one of the t/bred studs near here that still uses two on a daily basis.
Mad old coot he is.
 
Seeing these saws make me more thankful for todays technology. Not trying to sound like a wimp. But those are just plain scary. Guessin the A/V is terrible on those :)
Has anybody ran one? I was just wondering how heavy it was.
 
I think it would be a blast to run one of them on the front of a Bobcat, as long as you had a full cage around the cab.
 
ironman_gq said:
A budy of mine worked at a mill and one of the big circular crosscut blades exploded and a large section of it came through the "bulletproof" shield in front of him and stuck in the wall 30 feet behind his head. He quit that day and never went back
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I 've heard of that happening usually when sawing in the winter. I was always taught to "Take the frost out before coming up to speed". You do this by taking a 4-5 foot piece of 1X4 and pushing on the side of the saw plate with the saw turning slowly starting at the hub and slowly working your way out to the teeth. You can actually see the frost build on the board as you work your way out. It was said that without doing this first in real cold weather you ran the risk of possiblity cracking the blade. Which as your buddy found is quite dangerous and expensive as well. A new saw plate all set up with bits and hammered to your RPM runs around $2,300.00 these days. (48")
 
My dad had one like in the late 60s. We cleared a lot of yaupon thickets with it . I was in my mid teens back than and always thought it was dangerous as Hell. Man when that big blade got wound up it sounded like a jet fix in to take off.:dizzy::dizzy: That was the good old days.LOL:givebeer::givebeer::givebeer:
 

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