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Title: What Is It?
Post by: maltby on April 13, 2018, 09:58:12 PM

Found this at a 100yr old sawmill site with my metal detector. 4 1/2 in. long Any ideas?
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/49569/Link_2~4.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1523670943)

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/49569/Link_2.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1523385071)

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Title: Re: What Is It?
Post by: Jeff on April 13, 2018, 10:14:58 PM

Yup. Half of one of these. ;D
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/20180413_221357.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1523672086)

Title: Re: What Is It?
Post by: maltby on April 13, 2018, 10:22:13 PM

Are these some sort of link used in a log conveyor?

Bill

Title: Re: What Is It?
Post by: Jeff on April 13, 2018, 10:25:53 PM

It's a crosscut saw jointer

Title: Re: What Is It?
Post by: maltby on April 13, 2018, 10:30:45 PM

Can you explain a little on how, when, and why it was used. Did the saws use, or just general overuse, cause them to break?

Title: Re: What Is It?
Post by: Jeff on April 13, 2018, 10:54:57 PM

The one you found is probably broke because it was old and rusted. Here is everything you will ever want to know about them.
CROSSCUT SAW MANUAL (https://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/pdfpubs/pdf77712508/pdf77712508dpi72.pdf)

Title: Re: What Is It?
Post by: WLC on April 14, 2018, 01:33:37 AM

Funny this comes up today. Last night I watched an episode of The Woodwrights Shop on PBS. He was demonstrating how to use one of those.

Title: Re: What Is It?
Post by: lls256 on April 14, 2018, 07:20:21 AM

I watched that same episode of the Woodwrights Shop and thought the same thing. Roy Underhill did an excellent job explaining how the cross cut saw and the jointer works.

Title: Re: What Is It?
Post by: moodnacreek on April 14, 2018, 08:09:26 AM

They are on E bay all the time. I tried for years to find a side file and finally made one. That did it , My tool collector friend brought me one and I won one on E bay, now I have 3. Somewhere I have seen a kit advertised for sharpening [log] cross cut saws that included this gage, probably Lehman's non electric.

Title: Re: What Is It?
Post by: Jeff on April 14, 2018, 08:10:08 AM

Great episode. Here is a link. The folding sawing machine he demonstrates is something I have on my mantle. I also have the catalog/manual he talks about with mine.

Title: Re: What Is It?
Post by: samandothers on April 14, 2018, 09:14:24 AM

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed the education.

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