Add to ORKGpit sawThe houses were built out of logs. The boards for the roof and floor were also ripped out of logs from a scaffold built about eight feet above the ground. The saw they used was called a bit saw. It was used by two men. One worked on top of the scaffold and one in under it. The saw itself was about ten feet long.PRINTED ITEM G.M. STORY JUN 1974JH JUN 1974Not usedNot usedWithdraw
pet saw[see other side, and see 'pit saw'] [reverse] 68-7 088 24. _Pet saw_ - This is a saw used ...
pit sawII. _"PIT SAW"_ [image] about 5ft Unlike the "crosscut", the "pit saw" is much longer a...
pit sawI had a sawpit in my stage up there. He was high enough to saw up on the beams. One man on t...
pit sawRoofboards, floorings, ceilings and clapboards were sawn by hand with a pit saw.PRINTED ITEM...
pit saw- A twelve-foot long saw with very large teeth used for sawing lumber. A board or two were t...
pit sawThe saw-pit and the pit-saw were familiar objects of the olden days. All the rough boards, c...
pit sawuntil late years, the only means of preparing [the wood] for use was the "pit saw;" but now ...
pit-sawyerMeans a "pit-sawyer" - one of two men (top-sawyer and under-sawyer) sawing with a pit-sa...
pit saw[image] ADJUSTABLE This saw was used for sawing lumber and get its name from the frame whi...
pit saw[image] ADJUSTABLE This saw was used for sawing lumber and get its name from the frame whi...
pit sawlong saw with crossbars for handles at each end. Used by two men to saw logs into boards, lu...
pet saw[see other side, and see 'pit saw'] [reverse] 68-7 088 24. _Pet saw_ - This is a saw used ...
saw nTwo Men were kept busy all winter long using a Pit Saw to Saw logs. those two men were Conside...
saw logsThose men who were not engaged at building went to the woods and spent the winter cutting a...
pit saw....we never knew what 'twas afore now, sir, in this harbour if we didn't take the saw, one ...
pet saw[see other side, and see 'pit saw'] [reverse] 68-7 088 24. _Pet saw_ - This is a saw used ...
pit sawII. _"PIT SAW"_ [image] about 5ft Unlike the "crosscut", the "pit saw" is much longer a...
pit sawI had a sawpit in my stage up there. He was high enough to saw up on the beams. One man on t...
pit sawRoofboards, floorings, ceilings and clapboards were sawn by hand with a pit saw.PRINTED ITEM...
pit saw- A twelve-foot long saw with very large teeth used for sawing lumber. A board or two were t...
pit sawThe saw-pit and the pit-saw were familiar objects of the olden days. All the rough boards, c...
pit sawuntil late years, the only means of preparing [the wood] for use was the "pit saw;" but now ...
pit-sawyerMeans a "pit-sawyer" - one of two men (top-sawyer and under-sawyer) sawing with a pit-sa...
pit saw[image] ADJUSTABLE This saw was used for sawing lumber and get its name from the frame whi...
pit saw[image] ADJUSTABLE This saw was used for sawing lumber and get its name from the frame whi...
pit sawlong saw with crossbars for handles at each end. Used by two men to saw logs into boards, lu...
pet saw[see other side, and see 'pit saw'] [reverse] 68-7 088 24. _Pet saw_ - This is a saw used ...
saw nTwo Men were kept busy all winter long using a Pit Saw to Saw logs. those two men were Conside...
saw logsThose men who were not engaged at building went to the woods and spent the winter cutting a...
pit saw....we never knew what 'twas afore now, sir, in this harbour if we didn't take the saw, one ...
pet saw[see other side, and see 'pit saw'] [reverse] 68-7 088 24. _Pet saw_ - This is a saw used ...
pit sawII. _"PIT SAW"_ [image] about 5ft Unlike the "crosscut", the "pit saw" is much longer a...
pit sawI had a sawpit in my stage up there. He was high enough to saw up on the beams. One man on t...