A Home Made Sawing Machine.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 208, 25 June 1887, Page 4

A Home Made Sawing Machine.

Cross cutting and other sawing work is often a difficulty to a bush settler who has no mate or son big enough to take the other end of the saw. By means of the contrivance we here illustrate one man can use a cross-cut saw as effectively as two could work it. The following description of how this machine should be made will enable any ingenious man to provide himself with this useful apparatus at a trifling cost : — A A are boards of light material ; length, five feet ; Avidth, four inches ; thickness, five- eighths of an inch. J3,is a block of thick wood, one foot long, four inches square,

with a slot eight inches long for the saw to play in, from the bottom up. Four inches from the top of block B, saw in five-eighths of an inch, and split out to admit the boards A A, and bolt on, as shown in the figure, with two one fourth- inch bolts four inches long. Then one-half inch from the the outside of block B bore a five-eighth-inch hole lengthwise of the block B between the two bolts. E E are sticks of ash 80 inches long and two inches square, placed four inches apart. Four inches from the top, they are cut in five-eighths of an inch, to admit the boards A A, which are securely bolted on. At the bottom of E E, a piece of light wood two feet long, rounded on the upper side, is placed for a foot rest. Two inches from the top of E E is bored a three eighth inch hole to admit a bolt (H) Si inches long. On this bolt is to be strung a small piece of wood one inch thick, then an iron washer, then the handle (D, 44 inches long) hung in the centre of the stick ; another washer and another block of wood, D, being a round stick two inches in diameter, flattened on each side to five-eighth inch in thickness at one end. Fis a tapering stick 4x 1£ inches at one end, two inches square at the other, in which is an open mortite five inchos long and five eighths of an inch wide, to admit the handle D. Lengthwise of the wide end, saw in four inches to admit the saw -plate. Fasten together with two screws. Then through the stick, just above the saw, place either a large screw or a small bolt, to stiG'en the stock and save the ctrain on the two screws fastening the saw-plate on. Through the hole in the block B, put a fiveeighth inch rod 14 inches long, wedgedshaped at the lower end, with a hardened top end to be driven into the log. If the saw is limber, it may be necessary to put on a board 22 inches long, with a slot IS inches long, for the saw to play in, hung on a rod for the board to play in, as shown in the cut by K.