Biology:Sally Saw

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.