This is probably part of some larger device or mechanism, though I can’t imagine what. Is the forged name CC Lemi? Anyone with any ideas or guesses?
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Dave
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That's a hammer-type field saw set. You tap the sharp end into a crack in a tree stump and use it to set your felling saw before or after you sharpen the teeth. It might be missing a spring, but I'm sure works without it.
It's a relatively crude tool but in the hands of a professional tree-feller I bet it worked wonders.
I don't know when that one might have been made. The pivot looks relatively modern, so if I had to guess I would say around 1900 but that's just a guess. I bet that most of them were tossed out the moment the gas-engined chainsaw became available to lumbermen.
3 comments:
That's a hammer-type field saw set. You tap the sharp end into a crack in a tree stump and use it to set your felling saw before or after you sharpen the teeth. It might be missing a spring, but I'm sure works without it.
It's a relatively crude tool but in the hands of a professional tree-feller I bet it worked wonders.
Thanks! It looks almost handmade. Would it date to the previous century?
The Aikin patent, which that one is based on, dates to the early 1800's:
http://members.acmenet.net/~con12a/saw%20set%20website/hammer2.htm
I don't know when that one might have been made. The pivot looks relatively modern, so if I had to guess I would say around 1900 but that's just a guess. I bet that most of them were tossed out the moment the gas-engined chainsaw became available to lumbermen.
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