2ndgclimber
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I was looking through the baileys catolog and saw in there Bow bars and clearing guides.what are these used for? Thanks in advance for the info.
what are these for?
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For cutting your legs off! Very, very dangerous, especially if that lil'pawl gets away from the log!
Less, bar drag on cut, but i don't know anyone that uses them any more, especially with sprocket nosed bars as a standard.
Less, bar drag on cut, but i don't know anyone that uses them any more, especially with sprocket nosed bars as a standard.
2ndgclimber
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I wasnt intersted in buying them ,I just cant figure out what they do and how they mount to the saw
eyolf
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When I was a young kid, I knew one pulper that used one in the yard. Skidder would drag tree-length stems, yard guy would unhook and cut sticks, then the skidder yarded. This guy liked the bow best for this work. If he was dropping trees, though, he didn't use it.
There's a hook on the bottom that must be up tight to the log to avoid accident, and most of them had a guard over the top of the bar. Watching this guy work that bow, made it look easy. It looked a little like he was stabbing the logs with his saw; he never pinched, and was so smooth and fluid in his motions, always stopped within a fraction of the bark on the back side. I tried his saw and it wasn't near as easy as it looked
I hear the bow guides were far more popular down south, in the pine plantations. Now that work is mostly handled by big harvesters, so the bow guide is probably pretty much dying out.
There's a hook on the bottom that must be up tight to the log to avoid accident, and most of them had a guard over the top of the bar. Watching this guy work that bow, made it look easy. It looked a little like he was stabbing the logs with his saw; he never pinched, and was so smooth and fluid in his motions, always stopped within a fraction of the bark on the back side. I tried his saw and it wasn't near as easy as it looked
I hear the bow guides were far more popular down south, in the pine plantations. Now that work is mostly handled by big harvesters, so the bow guide is probably pretty much dying out.
Stumper
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As already stated the bow bars were popular with southern pulpwooders. They are hard to bind/pinch in typical pulpwood cuts. IMHO they were only "better" because they offset a degree of incompetence on the part of the operators. (If anyone out there used to pulpwood and loved bows please don't throw things at me.
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