Two-Man Crosscut Saw: Bellied Blade, Scorers and Cleaners

The two-man crosscut saw cuts a log across the grain, a handle at each end. Grimshaw (1882) describes it: the blade is twice as wide in the middle as at the ends, for stiffness and for the wear there; scorer teeth cut the fibres at both sides of the kerf, and slightly shorter cleaner teeth plough out the wood between. The picture: two men bucking a white pine log with a crosscut saw, about the 1890s.