This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...Laurel, Miss. We here see our friend, Mr. Dave W. Bartran, holding the first two saw hammers used by him for tensioning saws. They are priceless possessions and nothing could induce Dave to part with them. It was in Michigan, that pioneer lumbering state, which has turned into the world so many good mill men, where his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...Laurel, Miss. We here see our friend, Mr. Dave W. Bartran, holding the first two saw hammers used by him for tensioning saws. They are priceless possessions and nothing could induce Dave to part with them. It was in Michigan, that pioneer lumbering state, which has turned into the world so many good mill men, where his father operated a circular saw mill, (moved down from Ontario when Dave was a boy, ) that his first work as a saw filer began. This was about 1885--long before band saws had been inrtoduced into that section, for in those early days the band mill was only being experimented with in a limited way. The popular saw mill at that time used circular saws, 72" in diameter, with a top saw to boot, and the high feeds which kept the big rotary rushing through the white pine logs, kept the filer on his toes to tension the saws properly to stand the strain. The veteran Disston salesman and saw maker--our own Sam Southern, of our Chicago branch, was the first man to give Dave fundamental ideas of proper expansion of metals by hammering, to give a saw the requisite tension to make it stand up to the work and cut rapidly. These ideas Dave put into practical daily use and adding to them the results of his own experience, as times and conditions changed, put Dave into the first rank of saw filers, where he knows, and does not merely think, what attention a saw needs to make it give good service. His varied experience has carried him through leading mills in Wisconsin, Louisiana and Mississippi, for he has filed the fastest and best mills in these states, and it has finally landed him in charge of the filing room in the mill of the Wausau Southern Lumber Co. at Laurel, Miss., where above photograph was taken. He exhibits with just pride Disston saws which ...
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Add this copy of The Disston Crucible, Volume 10 to cart. $49.69, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Nabu Press.
