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Buzz Saw Made From Pull Type Silage Chopper
Gaylord Kaduce, Owen, Wis., converted an old Deere No. 6 1-row silage chopper into a low-cost buzz saw.
"I already had the chopper and I paid $10 for a used saw arbor with a 30-in. blade. The rest was made from scrap material so it didn't cost much to build," says Kaduce, who uses the pto-driven saw to cut firewood.
He stripped the chopper down to the frame and drive system. He mounted the saw arbor on a steel subframe that he then bolted to the back of the chopper. The chopper's pto shaft runs through a right angle gearbox which chain-drives the arbor. He mounted a slip clutch on the driveshaft coming out of the gearbox, then mounted a big sprocket on the slip clutch and a smaller sprocket on the arbor in order to gear it down. He made a 5-ft. long wood table to feed wood into the saw.
The table pivots into the saw blade for cutting and then automatically retracts.
"It'll cut through 8-in. dia. logs, and by turning the log over and cutting it from the opposite side it can handle 1-ft. dia. logs," says Kaduce. "A steel stop plate at the end of the table lets me automatically saw logs into 16-in. lengths. The plate is spring-loaded so I can push it down out of the way to cut longer blocks of wood. A small steel guard that I mounted on the table keeps wood from kicking back to-ward me. However, the blade itself should have a guard over it for safety. The pto shaft is shielded."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Gaylord L. Kaduce, W4313 Willow Rd., Owen, Wis. 54460 (ph 715 229-2285).


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1997 - Volume #21, Issue #2