Strange chainsaw?

[RadarTech]

Well we are exploring a property we have purchased and are finding lots of really old and unique items…

This particular saw body is one of them.. today I was in a hurry and just grabbed this picture… but zoomed in it is some kind of chainsaw …
I’m told bow saw, brush chain saw.. but I’m not sure… I’ve googled a lot of stuff, but this has not appeared…

What do y’all think?

RT

 

[MossRoad]

Yep. It's called a bow bar. Many iterations.

Google 'bow bar chainsaw' and you'll see.

Neat find.

 

[RadarTech]

Yep. It's called a bow bar. Many iterations.

Google 'bow bar chainsaw' and you'll see.

Neat find.

I’m pretty sure I’ll find lots of other stuff… check this one out..

 

[MossRoad]

Looks like the business end of a thingamadoo.

 

[dodge man]

Looks like the business end of a thingamadoo.

Sorry that’s not correct, it’s one of those things that’s goes in that one implement that does that farming stuff.

 

[xyz123]

I hate to see that, just ruins them by weathering and corrision. The woods behind my place at least 600 yds back is full of 50's 60's 70's discarded stuff. Some car wheels etc that is really worth good money etc along with agricultural stuff.
But that is the way it was on the farms back then.

I did enjoy going through and checking things out. But left everything as not on my place.

 

[MossRoad]

Sorry that’s not correct, it’s one of those things that’s goes in that one implement that does that farming stuff.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[5030]

Bow bars are used for on ground bucking of saw logs, had one years ago, think I gave it away, PITA to use and takes a big sized powerhead to run it.

 

[JasperFrank]

Inherited one of these from my Grandfather. Got it to run, but never had the guts to use it. Quit watching at 6:04. The rest is just silly stuff.

 

[RadarTech]

So— today we met a man that USED TO RUN this exact saw… and strangely he still has the motor for it…
It is a McCulloch 2 man saw….

 

[MossRoad]

WOW!

 

[cqaigy2]

Ooftah! Is the handle on the end mostly used to pick up the bar for the next cut or is that person pushing down on it?

 

[yomax4]

Sounds like they got it tuned in pretty good. I thought it would be a little more wild but very cool just the same.

 

[grsthegreat]

did the guy still have all hands and fingers

 

[RobertN]

Strange one I remember is the Wright Saw. Was a big reciprocating saw, like a big gas powered Sawzall.
My Grandfather had one; I remember my Dad using it a couple times in the early 1970's.

 

[RandyT]

Strange one I remember is the Wright Saw. Was a big reciprocating saw, like a big gas powered Sawzall.
My Grandfather had one; I remember my Dad using it a couple times in the early 1970's.

I have one of those saws. Been several years since I have ran it but it did run. that saw was invented about 40 years too early. They make a very straight and smooth edge cut through some thick material, and were in demand by the log cabin builders. they were going for like $600 in early 2000's. Along with the wood tooth blade they also made a bone saw blade for quartering large animal.

The reciprocating part is actually connected to a rod that sticks out of the top of a second non firing piston and cylinder.

 

[RobertN]

I have one of those saws. Been several years since I have ran it but it did run. that saw was invented about 40 years too early. They make a very straight and smooth edge cut through some thick material, and were in demand by the log cabin builders. they were going for like $600 in early 2000's. Along with the wood tooth blade they also made a bone saw blade for quartering large animal.

The reciprocating part is actually connected to a rod that sticks out of the top of a second non firing piston and cylinder.

I had read a while back that the Wright saws were used to cut up things like railroad ties too. Those raise havoc with chainsaw chains and bars.

 

[Captain Dirty]

After watching JasperFrank's video of the 2-man McCulloch taking almost a minute to make the first cut (1:34 to 2:30) I Googled "North American record for 2-man crosscut saw" to see how fast competitive sawyers were. Most relevant hit was an article from the Lewiston, ME Sun Journal of 6/15/2014, 1999-world-record-shattered-two-man-crosscut-debut-rumford-lumberjacking-contest. It reported "Jerry Gingras of Errol, N.H., and Richard Jordan of Canterbury, Conn., cut through the [14" x 14"] block of white pine twice in 6.1 seconds, shattering the 1999 record of 8.4 seconds . . ."

A little math: 14" x 14" x 2 = 392 sq in; 2 x √(392/pi) = 22.3. So the cross section of a round log 22.3" in diameter would be equal to cross section of two, 14" square timbers. No doubt Mssrs. Gringas and Jordan's saw was sharper than the McCulloch's chain, but I doubt the record breakers were more fatigued than the chainsaw operators at the end of the cuts.

 

[repete]

Sure it is not a meat saw for splitting large animals?

 

[flyerdan]

Like everything in motorsports, it keeps escalating until you have top fuel chainsaws.