The Evolution Of The Saw

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for the precision cutting of hardwood, softwood, with the grain, against the grain, and even raked out the unwanted sawdust. These saws differed in the layout of the teeth. Instead of the jawbone patter the teeth were placed in a "left-right-angled" pattern, to rake the sawdust, and were placed at different distances depending on the substance being cut.
As these handsaws progressed and continued to make the job of the wood worker less difficult logger began to take interest in the idea of a saw. This led to the invention of the large two-handled tree saw, which replaced the ax. This saw was made so that two men operated it, one on each side of the tree. The saw was designed to where it had teeth cutting in both directions. This almost doubled the number of trees that could be cut in one day.
Now that the gross number of trees being cut each day had doubled problems of how to cut the logs into boards arose. Without an effective process of cutting a straight line the log ...

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