Historic Hood River
Drag Saw
11-7-2019
Notes
This is a nice picture of the drag saw, not so great a picture of the loggers. This view clearly shows the mechanism to convert the rotation of the gears into the reciprocating action of the saw.
Despite its size and complexity, it must have dramatically reduced the effort to cut down a buck up a tree.
Jeffrey Bryant
This looks like a Vaughan drag saw
Kenn
See one in operation at the Great Oregon Steam up in Brooks, next to the operating steam sawmill.