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We put this drag saw together last couple days, don`t know if it will saw yet have to build a frame to hold a log.

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Good job bud! I'll bet that beats dragging a crosscut or buck any day!
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At first I thought you meant a hot saw! That is a real neat set up Pitchy!
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Thanks guys, the motor is going to be the hang up if it doesn`t saw, belt slippage or not enough power.
It`s neat none the less. :)
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The Eletric motor should have enough to make the cuts, but as you sat the belts might give you fits. I'm sure you could go to chain drive, just have to find the right sprockets.
Might have to do some fiddling with sprocket sizes to find the best gear reduction.
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GunnyMack wrote: Sun Jul 23, 2017 5:58 am The Eletric motor should have enough to make the cuts, but as you sat the belts might give you fits. I'm sure you could go to chain drive, just have to find the right sprockets.
Might have to do some fiddling with sprocket sizes to find the best gear reduction.
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Thanks GunnyMack, that motor doesn`t seem very powerful, I think it`s a 220 motor wired for 115 v.
Yep pulley`s is the other problem, both the flywheel and the bigger jackshaft are flat so that`s a issue right there.
Running a serpentine belt on the flywheel, V belt on the other ya gotta have them lined up just right as they're only a inch wide.
I generally try and build things from stuff I have laying around and my pulley supply is real low.
The blade and with all it`s connected too is real heavy so I might try putting a garage door spring on it to help a bit.
Should know something today. :)
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Looks good Lenn. Would be a great place for a hit-n-miss engine? Or I have an extra Harley motor.
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M. M. Wright wrote: Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:28 am Looks good Lenn. Would be a great place for a hit-n-miss engine? Or I have an extra Harley motor.
Thanks buddy, we just sawed a small popular, it cut it off took 3 minutes but I had to hold up on it a little or it would stop.
Video coming in a bit, it`s a little slow also but it`s a start.
I don`t have and stationary engines anymore and if I had a Harley engine I`d build the wood snowmobile.
We`re going to put a garage door spring on it next to take some weight off the saw. :)
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When I worked in a rock plant They had a tube of belt dressing, sticky anti slip stuff! We would peel off the wrapping and let the belt rub on the stuff. Worked pretty good at keeping the belts from slipping. Maybe they have some of that in you part of the country ?
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Bronco wrote: Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:08 am When I worked in a rock plant They had a tube of belt dressing, sticky anti slip stuff! We would peel off the wrapping and let the belt rub on the stuff. Worked pretty good at keeping the belts from slipping. Maybe they have some of that in you part of the country ?
Yep belt dressing, I don`t have any right now and I`m not sure how it will work on the rubber belts but will try it.
We got it working pretty good now. :)
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Pitchy -- that is so cool, as for me I can build my way out of a paper bag... :)
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I'd call that a success.
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If the motor is too small you're better off letting the belt slip! It wont take long to burn up a motor that's too small if it gets bogged down and the belt doesn't slip.
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We see a lot of the gas-powered antique drag saws here in Oregon, where so much timber was cut back in the day. Slow but sure. Yours looks swell, Pitchy.
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Thanks guys, Bill I`ve had a couple of those saws like your talking about wish I`d kept them.

Ok we geared it up a little and it saws a little faster, I may search for another motor this motor is really noisy.
Maybe a one HP that's made just for 115 v.
Vid got blurry for who knows what reason.
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Greetings
That looks fine from down here in LLama Land ! A bit of tweeking and it should cut right along. Home built is an adventure.
Grew up in SW Michigan and that looks similar to a saw rig a neighbor had out at his place. But he had some kind of "motor" on it that burned a fuel.
There is a "steam show" out in West Indiana . They have a wood cutting rig that works off the flywheel of one of those big old steam tractors.
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Thanks Mike, appreciated. :)
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Pitchy was gonna send you a msg to see what your doing.. See your ok. Todd/3leg
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3leggedturtle wrote: Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:37 pm Pitchy was gonna send you a msg to see what your doing.. See your ok. Todd/3leg
Doing fine, I think,
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Pitch, there will be a bunch of them running and a bunch for sale at this event the next two weekends.

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Cool Bill, ya better go and take some pictures of them 8)

Here`s another clearer video of our saw, installed some oilers.
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Moved the saw to the shed and set it up, works good and we`ll saw a lot of the winter wood with it. :)

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Mighty impressive stuff Pitchy.

I wouldn't worry about the speed, it's safe and you can walk away from it to do other stuff.

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Thanks Nath, it takes about 2 1/2 minutes to cut through that log, that`s about the same speed as doing it by hand.
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Looking good Lenn. That would be way faster for me. I'd have to stop and take a break about every 30 seconds :D
Then I'd remember there was something else I had to do......then I'd think how good a cold beer would taste.......then I'd have to take a leak.......probably should see about lunch. :D
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OldWin wrote: Tue Aug 01, 2017 2:49 pm Looking good Lenn. That would be way faster for me. I'd have to stop and take a break about every 30 seconds :D
Then I'd remember there was something else I had to do......then I'd think how good a cold beer would taste.......then I'd have to take a leak.......probably should see about lunch. :D
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Thanks there`s nothing like old ways, just satisfying to watch it go, if I run across some better pulleys ect I`ll hop it up a little.
Everything has become an antique now days and cost to much, fun anyway some of that being retired activity to much time on your hands. :)
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You build some cool stuff bud! I really like stuff from the old logging days.
Probably cause I don't need to use it to earn a living haha.
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work done, went to the woods with cross cut and axe hauled them in then built a skid way then sawed all but one up, whew.

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This is how to saw wood.

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Awesome pics bud. Now thats how to work!
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Thanks guys, have to get a picture with spenders on smoking my pipe, going after a nice jack pine in the morning. :)
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Got a correct drag saw blade today, it really cuts nice and is heavier than the other one. :)

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Oh yeah pal. That should just drop though them logs.
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Thanks, that`s oak we just tried it on and it really spit out the shavings. :)
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Well guys it`s a learning experience. :lol:
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Todays video of the drag saw, it`s working good and probably sawed five coed of wood so far.
Got a new drag saw blade fore it which works great and to day made a lifting device to help move the log down for the next cut.
Been fun getting up wood with less work than using the chain saw, cut and dragged in another six trees this morning. :)

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Pretty slick Pitchy. You got yourself quite a setup, now.
How long will the blade go between sharpenings?
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OldWin wrote: Wed Aug 23, 2017 2:25 pm Pretty slick Pitchy. You got yourself quite a setup, now.
How long will the blade go between sharpenings?
Would think quite a while if it stays out of dirt, we wash the dirt off the logs that got dirty from dragging them in..
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Few of the trees we hauled in this morn and the wood we have finished.

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Pretty good pile bud!
Good thinking! Many don't realize how the dirt on the wood can dull a saw.
If I tipped the ground with the chainsaw, my ole man would give me what for when I was a kid. But, it worked. I'm still careful. :D
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