You guys ever seen or heard of such a saw?

[thombat4]

Tractor driven splitters I've seen but not chainsaws. This has got to be a classic!

http://cleveland.craigslist.org/grd/1327867135.html

Matus Winery has a very unique, vintage Von Ruden PTO driven chainsaw. Von Ruden is now the General Equipment Company. It is complete minus the hydraulic hoses. It's a unique piece from the 1940s-1950s. With your reply, please include an offer and contact number.

* Location: Wakeman

I'd post the pictures but haven't figured out how to do the direct link thing yet.

 

[kevin j]

Interesting saw.
Wonder if it predates the HTMA stuff like Stanley, Fairmont. Neighbor uses a hydr saw (Italian or Israeli mfr?) in the apple orchards. wicked power for a hand held unit.

von ruden mfg used to be a mile down the road from me, now they moved an hour away to buffalo mn. A major product was rolseal hydr motors for robotics, and they still make gear pumps and motors. I wonder if it the same company.....
http://www.vonruden.com/

Fascinates me how companies sort of accidentally find a niche, until it dries up and disappears.

kcj

 

[thombat4]

Fascinates me how companies sort of accidentally find a niche, until it dries up and disappears.

kcj

So true...

 

[coog]

I think they use a variation of this saw for underwater cutting.I'd like one.

 

[gink595]

I think I've seen a newer variation of one, I think it was a Bobcat attachmant. Sam type of deal. It might have been a military deal, I've air powered chainsaws from WWII.

 

[ray benson]

Never saw one but here is a picture.
http://www.tractorshed.com/contents/tpic26918.htm

 

[carvinmark]

Tractor driven splitters I've seen but not chainsaws. This has got to be a classic!

http://cleveland.craigslist.org/grd/1327867135.html

Matus Winery has a very unique, vintage Von Ruden PTO driven chainsaw. Von Ruden is now the General Equipment Company. It is complete minus the hydraulic hoses. It's a unique piece from the 1940s-1950s. With your reply, please include an offer and contact number.

* Location: Wakeman

I'd post the pictures but haven't figured out how to do the direct link thing yet.

I have seen a few hydrolic chainsaws, man are they pricey.

 

[thombat4]

Never saw one but here is a picture.
http://www.tractorshed.com/contents/tpic26918.htm

Wicked looking beast...!

 

[EastwoodGang4]

gravely saws

Hard to see in the pic, but gravely used to make a wicked ol saw to fit their 2-wheel tractors.

That saw on the M-M is a bad dude!