Woodsman's Gear of the 20th Century Part 2

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In this series we will discuss the Gear used by Woodsman of the 20th Century, this time was the actual beginnings of Sporting outdoor recreation and many companies created some innovative gear choices for the outdoorsman, we will explore both the common and the obscure in this series to get as lesson in both History and Development of this Gear. Throughout the 20th Century Woodsman have relied on the Bucksaw to stack Fire wood faster and with less calorie consumption than with an Axe alone.

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitters in the pathfinder school back with another video in our woodsman's gear of the 20th century series another cold rainy day here in Ohio so I'm going to take you down to the classroom we're going to talk about what I figure is the first takedown style bow saw that was made for the outdoor market now remember that they had take down buck saws that were made in large pieces that were sold even a Sears Roebuck catalog in the early 1900s but none of those were really designed for the sportsman to take into the woods in the 1950s CF Peters patented a takedown style buck saw that was meant for sportsmen to take to the woods to camp - buck up firewood we're going to talk about that saw today stay with me

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okay let's talk about folding buck sauce for a minute there's lots of folding buck sauce on the market today nabob dust Roode and the boil 21 both being very popular today and there's lots of take down buck saws made out of wooden frames adventure Sauron has one my buddy Nick Stoll has a really nice one that we sell on our website and there are other metal frame buck saws folding or takedown that have been made throughout the 20th century but I believe that this one patented in the early 1950s May of 1952 to be accurate is probably the first one that I've seen that was a designated folding bucks off designed for the camper or the outdoorsman so it came in a tube that was made from cardboard with a metal cap and this is the actual original packaging that I have with this saw this is one out of my collection and so it came out in one piece just like this and we're going to kind of unfold this fold it up and talk about it here and demonstrate it as well here just a second so let's get started okay so let's look at a couple things on this saw obviously you have a metal frame saw here that folds on itself and has a pin through the middle that's designed to actually go through the teeth to prevent the blade from coming out and so you would have to push that pin aside to allow the blade and everything else to slide out okay so once you pulled your blade out and you can see this is a fairly wide proof style blade with rakers and gullets but it's a wider blade than what you see on saws today and it has a tab on this end to catching the frame and a wing nut and washer on a bolt on a piece of all thread here for the other side of the frame so it's a very typical design of what you would see today and I'm sure that most of the folding saws of today are copied off of a similar design to this and that's why it's so important for us to understand the history of where this stuff came from because this guy created this saw back in the 1950s and it folds out here and folds down here on a steel frame and this is steel not aluminum so it's a heavy saw it probably weighs two and a half three pounds all said and done one end has a hole and the other end just has a slot so you would drop your slotted in would capture the stop on the blade here just like this and the other end you would simply take off the wing nut and the washer just like this and you would actually push that through this hole just like this and it would stop so you had adjustment there where you would pull that through once you had this front side hooked in you could push this in to adjust it over to get that hole to line up to come through just like that and then you could at that point get your washer and your nut on there to start tightening this thing up and it's a pretty tight fit

you can barely grab those threads but once you get ahold of them there's actually a slot in here beside the hole so you can actually pull the blade into the slot you just have to line it up at he do it there's almost just tight enough that it doesn't go into the slot you have to be cognizant when you're lining this thing up to pull into that slot but once you get that done then you can get all that tension of this you want and it's a very very stable design and a very stable saw so you just crank that wingnut down to get the desired tension then you have the pull on bucks off we'll test this thing out on some lumber show you how she works [Music]

that was a piece of hardwood maple probably three and a half inches in diameter or something like that not completely dried out but fairly dry so you're cutting dry wood instead of green wood with a green wood blade however for a 70 year old saw I'd say that thing does is fine now once you were done at camp and you wanted to put this thing back away you know it's just the reverse it was pretty quick and simple you just loosened the wing nut to remove the tension you have to take everything off because you have to pull a clear out of the hole just like that and then you would replace these two so you didn't lose them leave it drop out the whole frame fold it up and then you just slid the blade into the center of the box frame just like that and once you got it in there you would come down to this in and you would adjust things to where you can get a tooth caught with that pin so the blink wouldn't come out slide it back into the tube and throw it back in the canoe or whatever your conveyance was unless you decide you're going to carry this thing in a backpack but it's a very innovative design first time is probably one of the first of its kind that was designed for the sporting market I think it's important for us to understand the history of things like the folding buck saw in videos like this okay folks well I appreciate you join me today for another quick video in our woodsman's gear of the 20th century this is the CF Peters Forrester folding soft patent date on this was May of 1952 so I believe that this is the first folding saw designed for sportsman the market so it's kind of an obscure piece of gear I've never seen one like it other than one of my collection and I wanted to show it to you today they're just T in this series I hope you enjoyed it I thank you for your views I thank you for your support I thank you for everything you do for our school for our family and for business following our sponsors instructors affiliates and friends and I'll be back to another video in this series as soon as I can thanks guys