PATENT TREE-FALLING AND CROSS-CUTTING MACHINE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3166, 8 October 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

PATENT TREE-FALLING AND CROSS-CUTTING MACHINE.

[KUUM X.Z. TniKS, SKITi.MIiKIi 1!», \S'.)-1] UN Saiuvilay afternodn, at Si'a.'er'.-|-'oundry, thnre was a public trial of a Hurt , patent ii'. >iw. A lii-^i , number of jrontiemeii intcr<'-!■■,i in >a\vand I'olvsl-clim; wen' [iri'-eiit. and ?|ioki: of i ii.-" invi'iiri'lti in lii<t<rnn ot comuiiiidation. 'Hi- ])i-iin:i[ib-of the patent i* lliai nf a cr.-.nlc worlceil by a liand-lurn.-.i uvwlm-I, whi<di .Irive, Hit olilill-irv cros-cut saw -it qui,-!t rpi-pil hiicKwards' and f,,i-wanU lliiou.'h the loff. Any sizi'd !o<r may I)" sawn (lin.u.'h by the hiiioiir <it one ni.m in a I bird of tin , lime in wliiVn i' now tale-i two iin-u to do it. Th'j .-aw in iy a!-o be u-i-d for falliiiL' l!i.: 1-iixi-i. 1.r,.. s: , li,' fronl: s>«alf may 'be cut oil I quickei- than by thu smartest, bu-liman I hat evei , swit'i.y an

axe. Tliun it may b<; roversed, and can b<) louk<!(l-u>i by mill and wnluv in the UMia.l way. A loiiir <ji- .-hart .-:nv may bu usuil to suit lliu cla.s> of timber to b^ , uporated upon. Tins machine may be profitably used at private Inm-ri.-, on farms, on stations, and in wood-yards, and if tie wood is liylit a boy can cut. up more wood in tho wtiuc time than could be sawn by two men. Tin; machine itself is light, handy anil pot-table, and the inventor informs ub that it can be put in thu mnvkut for £5 or ,UG, The patentee, Mr Ole Olsen, of Waiutu', saw-miller (a youna . New ZeaUmder), i.h iio'iv ;u Wellington making- for the manufnoturo and sale ot this very important labuur-saving- invention.