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Antique Drag Saw [Restoration] - Part 2

🕑 Added 2020-07-16 13:01:59 +0000 UTC

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Don H.

When you started sawing I was laughing while simultaneously yelling at my TV begging you to stop before you sawed yourself in half. Thanks for listening to me.

You really sounded "up" in this video. Like you have a little bounce in your step. Super cool video, thanks for sharing! ATB, Bill

Hand Tool Rescue

Hmmmmm...

Excellent video. The most terrifying contraption I ever saw was a rotating log splitter probably from early 1900s at the neighbor farmer's place in the north of Sweden. This thing wouldn't give you a bruise, it would rip your @#$%& arm off... It was a 4-5ft flywheel with axe heads welded on to it...

Is it possible to mount the antique flame thrower along side the saw. For wood drying purposes only.

That’s scary...😱

Louis Ross

Don't wear a tie while operating this machine!

Hand Tool Rescue

Maximum danger!

High level of worry cringe when you were fiddling with the speed. Fun watch as always.

Hand Tool Rescue

Big time. It needs to be metal.

R l

1:58 - dawg...you gotta shore up that bench. great job

Hand Tool Rescue

Hahaha, I actually started out as a woodworker.

Hand Tool Rescue

More danger = more fun....until I die.

Hand Tool Rescue

Hahaha, it's tough to turn!

Hand Tool Rescue

but fun!

Hand Tool Rescue

It's the worst to cut.

Hand Tool Rescue

I would have loved to do 10-parts but then it's just a drag saw channel, haha

Hand Tool Rescue

Probably killed at least one guy a day.

Hand Tool Rescue

Don't even look at it.

Hand Tool Rescue

I really need to up my log game next time I use it for sure.

ChuckD

And we appreciate you too HTR... as a mechanic. Not a woodworker.

Christopher Woolley

Very nice machine of death. This video moves into the top 5 of my favs , I hope you have or keep finding and rescuing these implements of death and beauty

Eric Olson

OSHA approved!

When he flipped the flywheel I got shivers, and wondered if we were going to call him lefty!

Stephen Boots

Love it! What an insane machine!

Brian Myers

13:25 DEATH MACHINE!!! Holy crap! Can you imagine something like that made today!?

Bukka

Well this thing certainly explains the lower expected lifespan back in the day.

Brian Myers

Man, when you were cutting that thick elm I could almost hear your tools crying for their own rescue.

Goose Gosselin

Would have watched this in a 10 part video! Well done, that slow motion shot was amazing. My Grandfather was a proper old school, six fingered lumberjack, I can picture him cursing this machine in french, and loving it. Fantastic restoration.

Janet Dupree

Brilliant!

Hand Tool Rescue

I'm still excited! Plus, I'm not going to tone down how very loud this thing is.

Marco

This thing is totally ridiculous. All those moving Parts, some of them near the speed control... But great to see it runs and works as it was designed. I wonder, how many men got injured using these machines back in the days. Great work and great choice not to color this whole thing, imho.

Marshall Horton

Man that was fucking crazy. I love how you just yell louder into your mic instead of turning the levels down when that engine kicked over lol.

Master of None

Safety..Safety??? You don't need no freaking Safety. Don't stick your fingers in there if ya don't want to loose them isn't that all the safety you need?

Peter Laws

Where my facepalm at?

Old Crow Bourbon

Nice work! I met a US army general in Alabama recently, and he had a brass accent.

Peter Laws

I took it to mean that he was going to release these two to the unwashed masses but that going forward, the plebes would only get the silent ones as it was before. HTR can speak for himself, of course. :-) I usually end up watching both versions. And I usually watch the silent ones first. :-)

Peter Laws

Insane right there in the membrane! Wow. Nice work. Would love to see a video of it cutting through a suitable, non-moving log Here with my unnecessarily prominent adjustable wrench that Canada Post managed to get to the USA in reasonable time (Saskatoon -> Vancouver -> SFO -> OKC ...) looking for things that need tightening.