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<p>[QUOTE="Potteryplease, post: 11531057, member: 16407"]They're both called 'cross cut" saws, and they're for 'bucking' logs-- for cutting perpendicular to the grain, and chopping up larger logs / trunks into smaller, splittable-with-an-axe sizes. </p><p><br /></p><p>I once found a two-handled cross cut saw, the kind that would be used with one person on each side. Blade was maybe 8' as I recall. I got it at a rummage sale on my bicycle, maybe $5. I tied it wide-ways across the rack on the back of my bike, teeth forward, and tried not to cut any corners (or pedestrians!) too short on the ride home.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Potteryplease, post: 11531057, member: 16407"]They're both called 'cross cut" saws, and they're for 'bucking' logs-- for cutting perpendicular to the grain, and chopping up larger logs / trunks into smaller, splittable-with-an-axe sizes. I once found a two-handled cross cut saw, the kind that would be used with one person on each side. Blade was maybe 8' as I recall. I got it at a rummage sale on my bicycle, maybe $5. I tied it wide-ways across the rack on the back of my bike, teeth forward, and tried not to cut any corners (or pedestrians!) too short on the ride home.[/QUOTE]
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