Biology:Sally Saw
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Short description: Portable tool
A sally saw is a portable, mechanical, motorized saw.
It was used for limbing (removing branches from the stem of a felled tree), and bucking (cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs).
Construction
A sally saw consists of several parts:
- An engine (internal combustion)
- A drive shaft that transmits power from the engine out to the cutting blade
- A cutting blade - a circular saw, sometimes hidden within a guard
History
The sally saw was created by the Cummings Machine Works in the first half of the 20th century.[1]
References
- ↑ "Portable Power Actuated Rim-Driven Annular Saw" US patent 2490255, assigned to Cummings Machine Works
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