Sharpfinger
Slightly Addicted
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Aye Up,
25 years ago we moved into our current house.
In the garden was a wooden pergola.
It was already well weathered with grey timber showing through the rusty coloured preservative in many places.
The joints were loose and there probably wasn’t much more than the wisteria growing over it keeping it together.
We tolerated it for about 5 years but when our first grand child came along the thought of one of the heavy cross spars coming down inspired action. I took it down and most of it was skipped but I did keep some of the uprights and a couple of the cross spars in the shed ‘just in case’.
Doing as I was told last year (sitting on the sofa) I saw a bloke on UToob raving about a ‘buck saw’. That’s a frame saw I thought, thinking back to my school woodwork days when they were still commonplace.
Several days later the shed was a bit tidier and I’ve got a buck frame saw.
It was made using only hand tools.
It’s been used in anger many times in my garden and also on a large wind blown hornbeam which was partially blocking a lane near us last winter. It is seriously effective.
Now my arborist pal says that the wood - oak - probably wouldn’t have been originally harvested until it was decades old. He says that back in the eighties a load of 80 year American oak was imported into the U.K. at least some of which would have found it’s way into products sold by garden centres.
If that is the case my repurposing means I’ve possibly got a saw thats made from wood at least 120/130 years old!
Who needs plastic!
25 years ago we moved into our current house.
In the garden was a wooden pergola.
It was already well weathered with grey timber showing through the rusty coloured preservative in many places.
The joints were loose and there probably wasn’t much more than the wisteria growing over it keeping it together.
We tolerated it for about 5 years but when our first grand child came along the thought of one of the heavy cross spars coming down inspired action. I took it down and most of it was skipped but I did keep some of the uprights and a couple of the cross spars in the shed ‘just in case’.
Doing as I was told last year (sitting on the sofa) I saw a bloke on UToob raving about a ‘buck saw’. That’s a frame saw I thought, thinking back to my school woodwork days when they were still commonplace.
Several days later the shed was a bit tidier and I’ve got a buck frame saw.
It was made using only hand tools.
It’s been used in anger many times in my garden and also on a large wind blown hornbeam which was partially blocking a lane near us last winter. It is seriously effective.
Now my arborist pal says that the wood - oak - probably wouldn’t have been originally harvested until it was decades old. He says that back in the eighties a load of 80 year American oak was imported into the U.K. at least some of which would have found it’s way into products sold by garden centres.
If that is the case my repurposing means I’ve possibly got a saw thats made from wood at least 120/130 years old!
Who needs plastic!
Often thought about making one 
what type of blade do you use ?
