portable drag saw

Open end of steel frame rests on the log, securely fastened during a cut by 2 steel dogs attached to the frame. Lower end rests on ground. Motion of the saw gear parts was through a chain over a small sprocket on the engine shaft. Large sprocket is fastened to a counter shaft that carried the saw gear and driving crank. Of the tanks, the smaller held gas; the larger water – which usually boiled over. Inscriptions : 1) in rectangle : CHR ONE IVIC KEL 2) R. M. Wahl & Company Since 1865 Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Model S5M1 No. 101465 Condition : Rusted from long exposure to weather. Found recently by Mr. Knowles as he cleared his land near Battle Creek. This kind of saw was widely known as a “Wee McGregor” and for many B.C. residents gave the first respite from the cross – cut saw (ca. 1920). A friend of the late Leonard Fowler speculates that he made the frame : ” the welding looks like Fowler’s.”.