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Cutting timber logs with the power of steam! 
A great favourite with our visitors, not only can you enjoy watching the logs being cut, but you can marvel at the traditional steam engine that powers the saw. The racksaw was used to saw up large tree trunks to provide a source of timber. It differs from a conventional saw bench in that the large trunks are held on a carriage and the whole carriage moves along on rollers. The blade would have been driven from a fairly large portable steam engine or a traction engine. Prior to cutting large bulks of timber by this method, they would have been cut by hand with two men using a very long double handled saw. The trunk was laid lengthways over an oblong pit with one man in the pit, under the trunk and the other man at the top.  |