Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . are at least a great improve-ment over anything that could be bought in the open were all made up on special orders, by one of our largesaw manufacturers. The largest saw is designed for renovation work primarily,and any one who has * fiddled along with one of the ordinarysmall pruning saws, or who has in desperation resorted to abig, clumsy carpenters saw, will be delighted with the way thissaw works. It was modelled after an old carpenters saw thathad been filed so often it had been reduced nearly to a point,
Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . are at least a great improve-ment over anything that could be bought in the open were all made up on special orders, by one of our largesaw manufacturers. The largest saw is designed for renovation work primarily,and any one who has * fiddled along with one of the ordinarysmall pruning saws, or who has in desperation resorted to abig, clumsy carpenters saw, will be delighted with the way thissaw works. It was modelled after an old carpenters saw thathad been filed so often it had been reduced nearly to a point, 132 PRUNING and the narrowness at the point of this saw shown will beappreciated by the orchard renovator who gets into a narrowplace. The specifications of the saw will be found beneath thepicture. In developing this saw the large type of tooth was firsttried; this is known technically as the lumbermans tooth, and isshown in the cut of the two-edged saw. This tooth was triedbecause it seemed reasonable that a large tooth, on a saw of this Fig. 60. Fig. 61. Fig. Fig. 60.—A good saw for small trees. It is 14 inches long, three inches wide at the butt, with seven teeth per 61.—An excellent saw for heavy pruning. It is 26 inches long, 6 inches wide at the butt, 1 inch wide at the tip and has five teeth per inch. Fig. 62.—A good saw for ordinary pruning. It is 24 inches long, 4 inches wide at the butt, 1 inch wide at the tip, with five and one-half teeth per inch. type, would cut faster than a small one, but in actual orchardwork it was found that it required more effort to cut off abranch with the coarse-toothed saw than with the finer saw simply did not have weight enough to carry suchheavy teeth. The second and third saws are intended for use on treeswhich have been well cared for and regularly pruned and whichtherefore do not need to have any very large branches taken out. PRUNING SHEARS 133 The writer is still experimenting on both, of these siz^e
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