Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — WOOD-CUTTING DEVICE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOOD-CUTTING DEVICE.

Its Inventor Calls It His ‘’Hard* Times Hired Man.” Rural New Yorlter. This is the name given to tho device shown in the cut by Mr. C. A. Wells, of Pennsylvania. He says that the “hard times" compelled him to cut his wood alone* Like a good housholdcr he cuts enough wood in the winter to 'last a year. The machine is easily understood. Three poles or rods make a frame for tho saw to swing on. Another rod fastened to a bolt at the top of tho frame plays inside two pieces of

A “IIAUD-TIMES HIRED MAN.” board. The saw is made fast to the lower end of this rod, and then it will swing back and forth as shown in the cut. You can have a horse for the wood, or drive stakes into the ground with the tops crossed, so as to hold the logs. Mr. Wells says he can put up five cords in ten hours .with this machine. Of course, he says, it takes some little time to learn how to run the saw just right. In this machine the stakes are nine feet long for the sides and ten for the other. The pendulum upon which the saw is fastened is eight feet long, and has holes bored in It so that it can be easily raised or lowered. Mr. W. uses the “horse" or stakes for sawing polles from two tqsix iuches in diameter. For sawing large logs he uses a rolling plaV form like that on buzz saws.