Wheel Horse Saw???

[dcrage 628]

Anybody know if this is a Wheel Horse saw or not -- Not something I have seen before -- This is in a KC Craiglist offering

[AMC RULES 37,132]

I don't know...kinda sorta looks like it's homemade to me. :dunno:

[bowtiebutler956 650]

I'm no expert either, but it really does look like something someone biult themselves. I'm sure someone hear will let you know for sure, here shortly.

Matt :flags-texas:

[squonk 41,166]

I don't think made a buzz saw for a little Lawn Rocket There's a dangerous combo. A Tecky mated to a Buzzer! :naughty:

[SgtBob 27]

That looks like the most dangerous option I have ever seen. Definitely not OSHA approved !!!!

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,350]

Do you really want sawdust flying aroung the intake of a Tecumseh? The carbs are finicky enough with out the possibility of sawdust getting in it !

Neat looking attachment but I dont think its factory.

Mike.............

[jachady 130]

That same tractor was for sale up in the Minneapolis area last year.

[bowtiebutler956 650]

I bet the other 's wouldn't give that little guy any lip, packing that kind of artillery.

Matt :flags-texas:

[312Hydro 474]

Battle-bots,anyone?

[smoreau 658]

I have seen pics of them before. It looks the same as I remember, so it might be a aftermarket attachment. Its as scary as the log splitter cone type.

[AMC RULES 37,132]

:teasing-poke: Imagine the carnage one could cause by mounting both, the cone splitter, and the saw on the same machine. :auto-ambulance: :auto-ambulance:

[gwest_ca-(File Mod) 11,060]

Wonder how they got the saw blade to turn in the correct direction?

Garry

[Anglo Traction 761]

:omg: That look's pretty iffy !........ Handy for chopping off low branches when mowing under trees though . There have been a couple of 'So called' WH Saw Tables on Auctions over here, but have doubts they were the Real Mc Coy. That look's like a Heath Robinson build

[dcrage 628]

Gary

Here is a picture of the otherside of this setup

[SousaKerry 501]

Wow that is for sure a Redneck innovation. Pretty sure Wheel Horse would have never used a flat leather belt to drive it.

Wonder if they had a table to go with it, would have been real hard to hold the logs without it.

When I was a kid we burned railroad ties to heat the house Dad had a buzz saw that was bolted to the front of the Farmall H, much bigger blade and it had a pivoting table that you loaded the ties onto and tilted them into the saw, worked pretty slick but the rocks and crap in the ties dulled the blade in short order. When the railroads stopped giving away ties and started contracting the work out and selling them we finally got a new fangled propane bottle and furnace, heck you didn't even have to get up in the middle of the night to add more wood anymore.... Imagine that, and no creosote fumes in the house either.

oh and believe it or not we were burning them up until about 1989 or so

[dcrage 628]

I have vivid memories of my Granddad cutting firewood and sharpening oak posts for driving into the ground on a buzz saw (2 ft blade on a rough cut frame; no gaurds anywhere) connected by a big leather belt to the side pto on one of his Farmall Hs -- Throw a little used motor oil on the blade every once in a while to lower the friction; you were good to go -- Mind you this would have been back in the mid 60's and OSHA wasn't anywhere to be found -- Boy did that arrangement put the fear of God into me -- It was scary

[CasualObserver 3,408]

I remember that tractor being for sale up here in MN for a long time last year... Pretty sure the guy said in the listing it was a homemade saw setup. Odd trivia though... across the pond there was a aftermarket saw table made for Cub Cadet!

[DoctorHfuhruhurr 137]

just don't trip or you could lose a hand arm or head

[Anglo Traction 761]

That last picture Dave posted is bugging me. That Belt/Pulley set up shows it rotates anti-clockwise (viewed).

So why are the Buzz Blade teeth pointing forward to the Front (clockwise) ?.

[CasualObserver 3,408]

Maybe they were cutting metal with it last? :lol:

[gwest_ca-(File Mod) 11,060]

Wonder how they got the saw blade to turn in the correct direction?

Garry

Guess they didn't. There is a never used saw as it sits because there is no way it would cut. Just finished 6 hours of using an old Simplicity 2-wheel with a 20" blade. Great for cutting up the light wood that is too dangerous to cut with a chainsaw.

Garry

[Jumo 0]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't PTO rotate clockwise? Assuming you are looking right at the PTO. So why wouldn't the blade rotate clockwise like a snowblower?

[gwest_ca-(File Mod) 11,060]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't PTO rotate clockwise? Assuming you are looking right at the PTO. So why wouldn't the blade rotate clockwise like a snowblower?

When looking at the pto side the pulley rotates counter-clockwise.

A snowthrower's direction is reversed by the roller chain going over the auger instead of around it. The same could be done to the saw if one could find a 6-sided double-V belt the correct length.

Garry

[CasualObserver 3,408]

If you want to figure it out....Don't bother thinking about it as clockwise or counterclockwise.. as that is relevant to the side of the engine you're on. Look at the pull rope. Figure out which way the flywheel is going to turn when you pull the rope. That's the direction it runs.

[Jumo 0]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't PTO rotate clockwise? Assuming you are looking right at the PTO. So why wouldn't the blade rotate clockwise like a snowblower?

When looking at the pto side the pulley rotates counter-clockwise. A snowthrower's direction is reversed by the roller chain going over the auger instead of around it. The same could be done to the saw if one could find a 6-sided double-V belt the correct length. Garry

Gottcha, makes sense now thx.