"Crosscut Saw Data"

Saw Inventory Data Files

Updated: 4:40 PM 9/1/2025

When I first became interested in cross cut saws, as used in trail maintenance work in wilderness areas, I got out the three saws that I had grown up with. Then I bought some more on the internet, local antique stores and flea markets. I thought that I would clean them up and maybe give them to an organization that was doing trail work. Before I got to the process of cleaning them up and getting them sharpened, other things in my life got in the way. The result was that I put them away and out of my mind for several years.

Recently, summer 2021, I decided to get back to cleaning the various saws that I had and deciding what to do with them. I first decided to determine how many of each type I had and to then document them. I thought that I had 10 to 20 saws in storage. I was quite surprised to find that I had over a 100! To determine how many saws, and what their types were, I decided to do an inventory. For the inventory, I used my cell phone to photograph and then to measure and weigh each of the saws. These are the results of that inventory. "Inventory" type of pictures are not "Presentation" quality, but rather just good enough that a particular saw should be able to be identified at a different time. In several inventory pictures the lighting is poor which results is parts of the saw being not viewable.

Eventually I plan to clean, measure and better photograph the saws I have on a "time available" basis. I have completed the inventory photography phase and now I am on the preliminary documentation phase. In the "thumb nail" pictures, the colors tend to be strange. This is due to the image compression software that I used, where a 2 MB file was compressed down to 60 KB. Clicking on the image will get a full, or so, size version of the image. Usually clicking a second time will ge the full, much larger, image. (Each browser or cell phone OS gives slightly different results.)

I recently, Summer 2025, decided to sell most of my collection. Items marked with NFS are Not For Sale. Items marked Sold are no longer in the collection having been sold.

Notes about the data

In each saw's data there are three sets of information:

A list of important features of the saw. This includes:
1. Manufacturer Name if known, many times this is an educated guess. Sometimes spelled correctly.
2. Length in Of the saw as measured along the teeth in inches.
3. Weight lbs The weight of the saw as pictured. This includes its label, handle(s) when attached and any dirt or crud that is one the saw. The saws were not cleaned up for the pictures.
4. Man The number of men/women that the saw will require for its normal use.
5. Type "Felling" or "Bucking" are the most common. These are most of the minor saw types:
  1. Back: E99
  2. Bow: E96
  3. Butcher: E115, E116, E119, E120
  4. Carpenter's: E101, E103, E106, E121, E122, E123, E124, E125
  5. Compass: E107
  6. Coping: E111
  7. Dry wall: E108, E110
  8. Hay: E25
  9. Ice: E71
  10. Limb: E2: E3
  11. Pruning: E100, E102, E104, E105, E109
6. Teeth The type of saw tooth that the saw has. As I get better at identifying the various tooth types these will get updated.
7. per Raker This is the number of cutter teeth per raker/cleaner tooth. Typically a cutter/raker set repeats on the full cutting side of a saw. At the start/end of the cutting side the cutter/raker count will usually change due to the end of the saw's cutting.
8. Lead This is the count of the small teeth at the start of the cutters and that are to be used in getting the saw to start easily. Sometime each end will have different counts. Sometimes one or two will be intentionally broken off so that a "loop" style of handle may be used.
9. Grind If the "grind" of the metal in the saw is known, I put it here. Usually it is indicated with a "?" as I don't yet know the grind. To accurately determine the grind the saw must be carefully cleaned, which is not common here. When I determine what it is, this field will be updated.
Any optional notes that seem to be appropriate for this saw.
Full length picture of the saw. Each saw has a "saw ID" on it with the format of "E" and a number, the "E" is to indicate that the saw is mine. (My first name starts out with an E.). I have also made records of saws and handles from the old High Sierra Trail Crew (HSVTC) which use "HSVTC" for saws and numbers from 34 through 67 (there may be some number overlaps between HSVTC handles and here. I have kept both sets of information seperate both in my documentation and saw/handel location. With the HSVTC going out of existance I understand that most of their tools were given to a local Indian tribe near Fresno.
Sequential small detail pictures of the saw starting at the label and working to the other end. I wanted to merge these into on a single picture but I couldn't find software that would do it for me. Also some of the small detail pictures have unnedded gaps between them.
Saws that have been sold: E15, E29, E55, E73, E86, E89, and E90.
Saws that are not for sale: E1, E2, E3, E11, E100, E101, E103, E104, E105, E106, E108, E109, E110, E112, E113, E118, E121, E122, E123, E124 and E125.
Temporarly lost saws: E38, E48.

Saw Inventory Data Files

Updated: 4:40 PM 9/1/2025

Notes about the data

Data that is not on this web site

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