Thread: for sale on ebay (no not mine) -eek!

What the heck is that. Looks like something from Saw. I would have nightmares if that was kept at my house.
Did the seller build it himself? Is it meant to look like a little robot dude?

I can't remember the true name but they were a commercially built saw used for cutting up logs. The old boy had one for years out the back of his place but never used it. We ended up scrapping it for parts.

Its a swing saw.
The blade can also be rotated so it cuts horizontally for felling trees instead of using a chainsaw.

I remember reading an article in the 'Readers Digest' many years ago of an American logger who was trimming logs with a portable 'Swing Saw' when the beast bounced back over his head hitting his mate who was standing behind.
The saw opened him up from the collarbone and shoulderblade through the ribs. [ He survived to tell the story that's why it was in the Digest]
I don't know whether they have been banned but technology has greatly improved since then
I definitlely wouln't buy it

I think it'd be a great replacement for those with a Triton who are looking for a tad more accuracy.

I remember seeing one being used to cut red gum sleepers in the Hunter Valley in 1992 so they were still in use then. It was one of the scariest things I have seen and not something I wanted to close to for a good look.

We had one on the farm for cutting felled trees into posts. The sawmill next door used the same setup but they had a car engine hooked up through a transmission for rough cutting planks out of trees
Steve

So where am I going to fit the incra?

As god is my witness when that beast is sharp it would EAT through wood at a rate that would scare the beejeezers outa me!

Pete

Barmah Sawmill still uses a swing saw to give them a square side on the logs.

Dan

Originally Posted by Doughboy

So where am I going to fit the incra?

As god is my witness when that beast is sharp it would EAT through wood at a rate that would scare the beejeezers outa me!

Pete

Not just wood, it would eat ANYTHING

Originally Posted by DanP

Barmah Sawmill still uses a swing saw to give them a square side on the logs.

Dan

Barmah.... is that spelt correctly

Affectionately known as a "suicide saw".

With the blade swung horisontal they were known to rip themelves out of the hands of the operator, swing arround and cut the poor bloke in half where he stood

Stan keglinski ( i think has one) he trots off to the wood show to frighten children with . No he wont start it.

Thats a little one. A mate of mine tells me he worked on a crew that used one back a quite few years. That one had a 186 holden motor for power, direct coupled.

He reconed the look of the thing is nothing compared to the noise and vibration... a truly frightening item.... and that was from 10m away..... and that was about as close as he would get to it...... he found other work real fast.

I recon that if WHS found you using one of those they would have more than a few words to say about it.

remember... it has sharp teeth and eats meat

cheers

I'm gonna pass up this one. I'm quite satisfied with my scroll saw.

Joe

Now that brings back memories (bad ones). I was up at Wingham, NSW in the early 70's and helped a bloke haul sleepers out of the bush. They had a similar saw but it was a bit more dangerous in the fact that the drive was done by 3 long belts. If the blade didn't get you the belts would have, as they were probably at least a metre long. From memory they called it a Hargon? saw. The bloody thing frightened buggery out of me and I resisted all attempts to get me to operate it. Getting the sleepers off the mountain was another problem as they used to load the truck (an old Leyland or Austin I think) until the springs were bent downwards and then toss a coin as to who was going to drive it down a steep dirt track with BIG drops off it. No OH&S in those days. I didn't last long in that job.

One of these was featured on a television show recently. It was a documentary on the re-furbishing of a paddle wheeler or something like that (on the Murray I suppose). And they needed some planks.

The fella who used the swing saw on the show is notoriously an expert with them, and can cut with amazing accuracy by eye. They showed him cutting some 5 or 6 metre planks from whacking great log with a swing saw that looked twice as long as the one in the Ebay ad.

I was completely impressed, especially when they showed a stack of the planks and they looked like they were straight from a saw mill.

I told SWMBO that I want one and she said "NO".