spike60
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Anybody got any good stories to share about cutting firewood before people argued about which chainsaw was the best? With all of todays saws and splitters, cutting firewood would seem awful easy to people who never had these tools.
I read a book last year where a guy made a mobile buzz saw in the 40's. He stripped the body off a early 30's plymouth and put another engine where the back seat was to run the buzz saw. He would come to your house and cut your wood into stove lengths. Of course, people still had to cut down the trees that this guy would saw up. That was done with hand saws, which meant that most of the wood was 3" to 6" in diameter. Easier to cut by hand, easier to move and easier to work with the buzz saw. Even with that guys "invention", you're talking an awful lot of work to get in the winters wood.
A few years ago, an older guy told me that when he was a kid on the farm, they would drop a tree with a two man hand saw. Then they would drill a hole or two, fill them with black powder, and BOOM, split the tree. A few more cuts with the hand saw, then stove length wood from a buzz saw run off a tractor. Splitting wood with gunpowder sounds like fun, doesn't it? It would be a blast! (Get it! )
I read a book last year where a guy made a mobile buzz saw in the 40's. He stripped the body off a early 30's plymouth and put another engine where the back seat was to run the buzz saw. He would come to your house and cut your wood into stove lengths. Of course, people still had to cut down the trees that this guy would saw up. That was done with hand saws, which meant that most of the wood was 3" to 6" in diameter. Easier to cut by hand, easier to move and easier to work with the buzz saw. Even with that guys "invention", you're talking an awful lot of work to get in the winters wood.
A few years ago, an older guy told me that when he was a kid on the farm, they would drop a tree with a two man hand saw. Then they would drill a hole or two, fill them with black powder, and BOOM, split the tree. A few more cuts with the hand saw, then stove length wood from a buzz saw run off a tractor. Splitting wood with gunpowder sounds like fun, doesn't it? It would be a blast! (Get it! )