Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — An Improved Saw. [ARTICLE]

An Improved Saw.

People who cut up very valuable timber into merchantable shape have always felt a certain amount of regret at the great waste as seen in the enormous piles of sawdust that accumulates. For this reason it has been economy to use band saws, which are extremely thin and durable. Circular saws have not heretofore been as available for this work on account of their much greater thickness, but, being cheaper and much more easily managed, they have been used, even though the waste of material incident thereto has been great. By a new means a 12-gauge 54-inch circular saw has been operated, and the inventor says that it behaves in the most approved fashion in all respects, doing the work as well as thick saws and standing the strain in the most satisfactory manner. This is of a great deal of importance, as a thin circular saw can be operated where a band saw is difficult to handle, and is therefore an economy and also much more convenient.