Good Sabbath Morning To You!

[Ole Joe Clark]

It's a wonderful, cool 61 degrees in my little part of the world this morning. I hope you, especially you, are having a blessed day, surrounded with family and/or friends that love you.

My brother came by a few minutes ago, and brought some Precious Memories with him. I told him yesterday that we were gonna purchase a gadget that scans slides and photo negatives and he gave me his memories to share. I know there are lots of family photos that no one else has a copy, but I'm gonna fix that.

We had a good week, only received a little rain from the storm that came through here after wrecking the coast. We need some rain, but not a flood.

Hope to get to the range in the next few days and expend some 22LR's and .243's that I loaded this week. I used my old Pacific Multi Power C press that I bought about 1975 or so. It's like me, a vintage model. But, it's in better shape than I am, it doesn't show it's age nearly as much as yours truly. :-)

How many of you know what a crosscut saw is? The photo is of my Dad's saw. The story I hear is that my Mother and Brother used this saw quite a bit while Dad was at work. I was to young to have that chore. My job was to pick up chips from the chop block so Mom could start a fire in the old wood stove.

Ya'll have a blessed day and week,

Leon

[billwill]

Hanging on to one end of that thing will 'wear you out'. Looks like it is ready to rock n roll

[Old_Cop]

I always enjoy your Sunday morning message.

[pawngal]

Today is my Grandson's 19th birthday, we celebrated on Friday when both of us had the day off (he is currently living with me)
Shooting range, ax throwing, supper out, and his favorite cheesecake instead of birthday cake. I forgot my phone so no pictures.
He has become a better shot than me, really killed the steel targets!

[Nevada Ed]

Glad to hear that you are getting some rain, which is always nice, if in moderation. I believe Vegas is going to break a all time record without rain this week............ ?
I hope you do get to go shooting, nothing like putting some lead down range to relax a person and take care of dangerous paper !!
As for that style of saw............
My twin brother and I started using one when we were around twelve years old and when around sixteen, we were drawing blood on a few spats, on the other guy slacking off on his end of the job, because I never fudged.......

With Fall coming, it is almost Pumpkin pie time.
God bless everyone.

[Mike, SC Hunter]

That saw......A bottle of Kerosene .....And a good man on the other end has felled many a tree........For those that don't know. The kerosene was usually in pepsi/coke bottles with a rag/wick stick in the end. This was used to "lube" the blade to keep pine tar from sticking to it during a cut. Also one the blade was full depth in the tree steel wedges were driven into the cut to keep the cut open and not pinch the blade.
BTW I've made many knives and machetes from cross cut saws.

[ACORN]

Originally Posted by Old_Cop

I always enjoy your Sunday morning message.

I’ll second the motion! Keep ‘em coming!

[kmyers]

Always great to get a Good Sabbath Morning message, hope all is going well with everybody.

[Rustyt1953]

From '75 to '79, in NC, I saw a lot of cross cut saws. I also helped out on my friends' family timber farm. It helps if the guy on the other end has rhythm as it requires timing or you will buck one another.

I, too, look forward to these weekly post as they remind me of the old Sunday Morning Farm Report.

It came on as I was coming in from the night before. Bibs rule!

[Rudi]

A beautiful Sunday morning here. The air is clean, the smoke is gone. Most of the fires are out. Looks like a million acres were burned, my old hunting grounds are burned down. Thousands of structures gone. The dead and missing are still being counted. The nearest evacuation was 15 miles from me. The rain has washed the ash away. Everything is clean. Thank the Lord for rain.

[bigwheelzip]

Originally Posted by Ole Joe Clark

I know there are lots of family photos that no one else has a copy, but I'm gonna fix that.

Great project. We've digitized thousands of stills and lots of old movies and shared them with family.

[Ole Joe Clark]

Originally Posted by Mike, SC Hunter

That saw......A bottle of Kerosene .....And a good man on the other end has felled many a tree........For those that don't know. The kerosene was usually in pepsi/coke bottles with a rag/wick stick in the end. This was used to "lube" the blade to keep pine tar from sticking to it during a cut. Also one the blade was full depth in the tree steel wedges were driven into the cut to keep the cut open and not pinch the blade.
BTW I've made many knives and machetes from cross cut saws.

I remember helping Dad and Mom cut down a tree when I was a little bitty kid. My job, when prompted, was to sprinkle kerosene from a coke bottle that had a pine top stuck down in it, on to the saw blade to do exactly what you said. Keep the pine rosin off.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

[handejector]

Originally Posted by Ole Joe Clark

How many of you know what a crosscut saw is?

aka the "misery whip". They'll make a young man sleep.

[DeathGrip]

One of my favorite versions of Crosscut Saw,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZg8sG7Pr7c

[Nevada Ed]

As a note, for those that make knives....
band saw blade material also works..............

I prefer the old deer or Elk handle but, what ever............

Yes, Sunday's are special.

I even messed up and mowed my lawn today !!

[Krogen]

A crosscut saw. Dad had one stashed in the furnace room back when I was a kid. One day "for some reason" my older brother offered to cut my head off with it! He was about 17. Now, if you knew my brother, you'd know he's the calmest, most mellow, even-tempered guy in the family. I must have done something to wind him up. Somehow, little brothers have the ability to push buttons!