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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2004, 11:42:56 am »
Run across this feller in a cracker barrel. Durn them Cracker Barrels! Ya cant buy thier stuff!  My first ever glimpse of a riding drag saw!

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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #21 on: October 24, 2004, 04:11:24 pm »
Jeff, what would be the purpose of riding the saw, how would it have been driven ???
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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #22 on: October 24, 2004, 05:30:53 pm »
It works lie an exercise bike. Pumping action moves the saw back and forth to buck the logs. All human powered. :)  Sure  would have liked to have that riding drag saw, but there's no way to get that.

 I aint told my secret yet.  I DID find me another manual dragsaw this weekend. ;D I'm cleaning it up right now. Gotta do it pretty much one handed but I'm getting there. :)
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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #23 on: October 24, 2004, 05:35:30 pm »
Here is a picture of the seat area of the riding drag saw. Its like an old tractor seat.

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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #24 on: October 24, 2004, 06:18:25 pm »
I see it now :o, it's works like one of those swings for two kids, I wouldn't trade my chain saw for it, well maybe the Echo :D
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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #25 on: October 24, 2004, 06:35:22 pm »
I'd trade ALL my chainsaws for it!
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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #26 on: October 24, 2004, 06:45:28 pm »
You've got it baaaaaaaaaaaaaad Jeff!  ;D :D :D :D
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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #27 on: October 25, 2004, 05:33:50 pm »
My new old toy. ;D

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« Reply #28 on: May 24, 2005, 04:54:45 pm »
A Hercules dragsaw. Pretty rare for around here, maybe anywhere. Went down to Saint Johns Michigan this morning and dug it out of an old barn.





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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #29 on: May 24, 2005, 05:06:11 pm »
Wow, these things are interesting.

I am serious thinking of starting to acquire old saws here in Costa Rica.

You see some really big two men saws here.

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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #30 on: May 24, 2005, 06:40:37 pm »
A little Rust Reaper degreaser, and a trip to the car wash and it looks a little better. Its a shame that I am going to have to replace the wood as there is so much original paint there yet. :-\


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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #31 on: May 24, 2005, 06:47:32 pm »
Quote from: Jeff B on May 24, 2005, 06:40:37 pm
A little Rust Reaper degreaser, and a trip to the car wash and it looks a little better. Its a shame that I am going to have to replace the wood as there is so much original paint there yet. :-\



Yep, but on the up side you can saw the new boards your self... 8)
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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #32 on: May 24, 2005, 08:21:08 pm »
 ;D  If I can ever find some pine. I think this thing is pine because of what looks like pitch ooz on one of them. Seems like it would be smarter to use ash, but I want to keep it as authentic as possible.
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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #33 on: May 25, 2005, 06:30:48 am »
Jeff glad to see you  got that drag saw, I bid on it some but got busy at the end and forgot about it. I had it pegged to be an Economy,I'd like to see what I missed out on     Fred.
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« Reply #34 on: May 25, 2005, 07:54:34 am »
Fred, I guess it certainly could be and economy or a Hercules, since Hercules made economy I beleive. Next chore will be to find a 1 3/4 horse engine. I'll have to save up awhile for that as I dont want to trade anything I already have. :D

Below is a link that shows what I have (middle and bottom illustration) that talks about that.
http://www.herculesengines.com/hercules/hercnews/Hercnews0299.html

Fred, where are you located? Come on over sometime!

This auction was one of those weire things. I knew the saw was in St. Johns, butafter I win I get an email with a HArrison phone number!  Turns out the guy that ran the auction lives just over near Lake George and this was in his Dad's barn. He had a check in his hand and we were chatting in his garage less then an hour after the auction ended.  I had to wait till Yesterday to get the saw only because I had a brak pad fail on my truck and had to get that fixed first.
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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #35 on: May 26, 2005, 09:18:06 am »
Hey Arky, when ya come up for the roast jeff needs some pine logs...

I would bring ya some jeff, but I dont know how I would get them in the motorhome. ;D
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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #36 on: May 26, 2005, 09:31:41 am »
Now don't be bringing any logs from out of state into Michigan. We have enough problems with plant pests here without importing more.   :)

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« Reply #37 on: May 26, 2005, 04:27:10 pm »
Yessir, I dont think that would be a good thing for the forum to get hanged with.  :D
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Re: Drag Saws
« Reply #38 on: May 27, 2005, 04:33:21 pm »
THe restoration on the Hercules has begun. :)


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« Reply #39 on: May 31, 2005, 06:58:46 pm »
I get to blame Furby for this. He sent me an auction link last week and it just so happened it had the right engine listed for my drag saw.  Furby, Tammy's looking for you.... ;) ;D

Here it is after about 12 hours of clean up and another couple fiddling around. Harold Bobo and I messed with it today and got her running, although only on a squirt can. I don't have a tank for it rigged yet, plus it needs a needle valve for the J carb and a couple new pins to replace the worn governor weight pins..




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