St. Landry democrat., 1891-05-16
Hammerlng VS. General Care of Saws.
Catholic NezUs

Hammerlng VS. General Care of Saws.
IL may be useless to talk, to attempt, to
convert the world to your own opinion.
Indeed, l think it is myself; but il the
world Is on the wrong track clearly, q
general crusade against the evil will no
doubt help to fetard 1t, while IL we are
earnest and persistent, others will take nm
the subject and help ong.
There is q prevailing opinion among
mill men that saw makers do not and can
not make as good Jaws now as they did
twenty five years past One man wrote
me not long since that he had read with
interest an article of mine In the Wood
worker, as to what constitutes good saw,
and he was of the opinion that it was n
lost art that do his best for saws sno
mills, his sawyer could not make his ga WIS
60 as they used to that they could not
make as good circular saws as when he
was young man. Now mill men friends
the trouble with this man, as see it is
three-fold. First, he looks ba,k to his |
his own experience twenty five years ago |
with partial eye his own work shows In |
the distance. Like history, only the great
deeds are recorded-all the little foolish
ls more real-the sawyer. Good sawyers
are more scarce. Any mau who has Sood
health and some push to him soon works
from the tall end to the brakes be can
move the carriage up and back, and set a
board as quick as the old sawyer The
proprietor notes this and says: Cant
You run this machinef" YES don't / as
fast. or faster thana Mr. App You are
~ I'll l. !
No. 3 takes his place. Things 90 we'll for
. tewoays. Finally, the saw has cot to be-
hammered she is .'rim-bound.s fNots
here that 30 per cent of the saws are mot
Tim- bound. but the reverse He las fled
the points until the backs are higher than
the edge of the tooth this causes the saw
to buckle. "What is bucklsP' snake.
this way and then that, heating at the
guide pins eta etc. He further more has
nled right handed, SO that the teeth are all
sheared one way on top, then swaged until
the set liz oil one side and the teeth bent l
out the other way, SO he 10 running half
bent and half swaged saw-thst is, set
swaged one side and bent set the other.
Now you sight across the top of the saw =
wben under motion, and the teeth shoe
az angie OF o or 10 degrees one way He !!
puts paper on to dish the saw to make I, :
have enough to offset for this, and, ooh
dear 7" This man Is learning his trade a,
the expensesof others. He boasts that he
never gave any time to learn a trade. No.
ne u like O machinest who told this: b.
worked up from 81 S5 day, now he gets a
S5 on, and he never gave e moments time ~
bow are you out Of job2" said /: .:
The boss ana / could not agree, so .
lsft suggested (meekly) that perhaps i
The boss was mot suited with the work. %
wasn't suited with him" he said; II can y
yet $3 60 easy, and better lob p
md better tools than that shop hasr ca
20 he went his way. Now this sawyer 81
roes Mr. A. promotes another sail man. Sc g
There Is third trouble; people are trying u
0 run too this saw. They think that they !.
ave two gauges of a saw cut, when In a
ruth they waste 10 to 30 per cent more 10
lumber in thick or thin boards. A thick W
'osfd means thin enc. have not over ~
ravn, this Of ALL was called to a mill ", w.
ast week: before this writing, where 4 n ns
hammered their saws, and found this as % q
vrits, only more So The teeth were ONT ~
fifteenth of an inch higher, one linen back "a
rom the points, than at the poin his 70
Rw d'shed by papering, and shesred to r'
IN out of the cut. l filed the saw as Il, ~
hould be, and 1t run wei then. The pro. ~. nc
Efetor said, "This may be so, but / wan, ~ ~
ou to 6x the saw SO Smith can run it. eu
70 ran IL all right in the summer wan sei
on to hammer it 80 it will 20 Well In the 70.
inter" .,s. EEEEkE= sei
There is fourth trouble: The SAWYER az
too superficial in his observations ano W
lre; he does not use his brains, 1t is too u sl
ksome. He let's his arbor get out OF o n'
vel or track get crooked, and lays it ali ="
the saw; when, if the machine
I'd been all righi, the saw would have run
ell. Indeed, have been called on, "f
thin short time of this writing to see Y
hat the trouble was with the mill, If any. son
'cause had hammered the saw and yel VIC
olo not run We'll found that the aroor | knC
rs out, not level by of an inch Thi. .ws
rev she top OF, the saw oat Of an inch maj
om plumb; this caused Ii to run out of for
o Log. i leveied the arbor and the saw line
n we'll In any, kind of . log. They tried are
OK maple. tthe mercury was 90 below No,
ROY, which is the hardest timber to saw mar
hen frozen that know Of yet the saw thei
mt we'll. 81 tbs,
saWelH Well p said the sawyer .tha, We
ats all. | should not suppose that would 1un
IKE such difference IND,
Again. have found the collar out the
her worn convex or twisted 90 % TO SUMO
row the solar out one side more that | bier
, other. place them I'm thes bearing Oh | has
|, machine by using an old file for hand Rob
], having solid rest. or course this Epefr
Ways sst matters right. OF course o Sws
ok saw would help matters some, be- cont
Ice i'm measure il would hold BY its of 81
n Stiffness Now, lesve all comments have
others to make. What does o mill betti
n expect or think off IL he is q man nam
good Judgement, shrewd enough to the
he mo ney can't he see that IL is better men
mn Z. gauge saw and have q sawyer we d
: Ii competent TO run IL we'll, one that that
l boistths gate promptly at q. m, beinI
30 manage 10 keep thesaw In the cut FIRST
II 10 M, and from p. m. to 8 p. M. Gle Il
ard Gle ont OF hours2 But he says, oLcs,
,an q 6nd snch man." Well, con- tain
that ID somewhat the course mill frien
has pursued for the last de- tain
}. and It has q tendency 10 make them whis
cs. The fact is, good sawyer has most
10 have quick perception and good told
lone that reads good papsRs. and la sicisr
lghtfhl, and takes pride I'm hisswork, hsr d.
gets good pay. Is il not better 10 pay me to
o per day for 10 900 feet OF good lua.- gsmb
than o., 80 for 4, 900 feet Of poor lum pnrpe
Ask this OF yoprselves--G IT. steam
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