Re: Used to Cut Wood

Posted by Adirondack case guy on October 01, 2017 at 06:52:33 from (69.207.198.19):

In Reply to: Used to Cut Wood posted by rusty6 on September 30, 2017 at 20:09:53:

I can remember back when we had a buzz saw mounted on the front of a Case SC. We always cut the limbs off the felled trees and loaded them onto a bob sleigh and hauled them out to the sugarhouse and stacked them on end around a tree out front. That Tee Pee pile would get to be 50' across. The SC would set between the pile and the woodshed, and about 6 people would go at it, My dad usually ran the saw, uncles and us kids would bring limbs to the saw or stack the 3' lengths into the shed. The logs were skidded out originally by horses, but by the time I was big enough to help, tractors replaced them, and later a 1957 Case 310 crawler became the workhorse in the woods.
We split all the logs with axes, mauls, and wedges.
When I was in high school, I built the first hydraulic wood splitter used in the sugarbush. My dad gave me holy he!! for ordering the 4x36" cylinder and single spool valve, but it didn't take him long to put down the ax when I got the splitter working. I had built it with a couple of old rear wheels of a rake to transport it, but he came up with the idea to mount it vertically on the 3pt of a tractor. He wore the rails rite off the old used I beam that I made the splitter from, and bent the cylinder. He was in his mid 80s when he could no longer cut firewood. I doubt I will make it that long.
Loren
BTW When I built my new wood hauler, I brought home the old bent cylinder and straightened the rod and used it for the tilt cylinder. I guess I have to put new packings into it though, for some reason. We still have the old buzz saw and I have a SC that I am redoing. I hope to mate them together.
The buzz saw also had a guide which was used every spring to sharpen fence posts.

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