Dragsaws - videos and photos
Prior to the popularization of the chainsaw, mechanized log sawing was done with reciprocating dragsaws. Dragsaws were the replacement for long manually-operated crosscut saws; they were usually run by gasoline engines or by steam-powered winches, AKA "donkey engines", "steam donkeys", or "logging engines".
Dragsaws were advertised as being portable, although, 100 years ago, the word "portable" did not mean what it does today.
Here's an example dragsaw:
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...m/dragsaw1.jpg
Now some black-and-white dragsaw photos and a newspaper advertisement:
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...m/dragsaw2.jpg
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...m/dragsaw3.jpg
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...m/dragsaw4.jpg
Here's a 1:48 video of a 1926 Witte dragsaw in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7kZGlrSeso
And here's an interesting 3:06 video of a restored human-powered dragsaw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slzgIv5tWns
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...0668#post72907
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...1408#post74350
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...2565#post76591