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With the Amish ,what they are allowed to use is dependent on the elders of the area .Some can use electrical tools for example as long as the power comes from a generater and not the utility company .

They also were a tad ingenious about that at times .Some used a springy sapling to return the saw therefore could be operated by one sawyer in the pit .That would be the guy covered in sawdust .

Wow,what a job that would be ,hand ripping logs into lumber .

Purely speculation on my part but I believe that handle placement as well as the curved backs were used to kind of follow the persons natural arm movements when sawing . The Japanese were pretty crafty about ergonomics before the word was ever even thought of . Another observation .It seems to...

That's pretty much the same as the old saw in my pappys barn .He had a special file which had cutting teeth only on the two faces and none on the edges . Plus there is a certain amount of "set" on certain teeth . The old man could sharpen any thing .

I remember those days well although the blasting agents were purchased at the grain elevaters .

Once and only once since I was teenager did I use a crosscut . We had a big fat dead oak on my uncles propety about 5 or so feet in diameter and the longest bars we had were 20 inch . My dad sharpened his crosscut,we cut into that thing as far as the chainsaws would let us and finished tripping...

You know it may sound odd these days but I remember a time that hardly anybody sharpened their own chains .They took the dull chain to have somebody grind it for them . I recall as a teenager working out helping a sawmill logger type guy that didn't even sharpen his own .He just kept a bunch of...

It looked like the picture that B had was big chipper chain .Easy to sharped if you had a large enough file . The one Larry S has unfortunatly hit a nail once as they were demoing it at a show and it had planer chain .He had a beech of a time refiling it from comments he had made .

Well,I don't know who Dale is but I'd just as soon he helped me pack that huge old saw over the hill as to get on the business end of a 6 foot crosscut . I tried that crosscut deal just a few times as a teenager and I didn't care for it .

If you ever saw one cut that ran good with a sharp chain you would be surprised .They really aren't that slow as compaired to say a David Bradley .They won't get with it like say a hopped up 066 but you have to remember when it was made . Now as for me,given the choice of that thing or a...

The one Larry has cuts a tad better than the one in that vid clip .

Larry Stiener has one of those things . We took turns running it at a GTG once .That thing sounded like a boat motor . I think it had like a 9/16 or 3/4 inch chain on it . Whatever it was it tossed some big old chips .