Disston 2 man crosscut saws

Re: Disston 2 man crosscut saws

Mike G.


>Oops, I forgot to mention it's a No. 128.

Re: Disston 2 man crosscut saws

Stephen Kirk in Quakertown PA


>I have something like what you are talking about, only mine is about 4 feet long. It works one or two man (with the other handle installed). I identified it as a 1-2 man felling saw, used to take down small trees. I never did look for a price on, since I didn't want to get rid of the saw.

Re: Disston 2 man crosscut saws *LINK*

Fred Peake


>Like most other categories of tools, prices depend heavily upon condition and the buyer. A good saw in like new condition will command a premium price to someone interested in putting it to use, such as logging competitors. However, most that are found are wall hangers. The attached link is to the Crosscut Saw Company's catalog offering.


Retail Crosscut Saws

2 man crosscut saw prices

Dave Thompson


>Hi Mike, I can't speak specific to the Disston brand, but rather 2 man crosscut saws. This summer I did some shopping for one of these. I found an antique store selling three different brands, each $35 a piece. Teeth were all quite sharp, and all very useable though the blades were brown. I ended up buying one of them just in case I get a wild hair and decide to tackle an ash tree that's too big for my chain saw and fell on it's own this spring due to some tornado activity. Anyway, I recall glancing on e-bay and seeing these go for around $25 (+ shipping ofcourse).

A side digression... while looking on e-bay, I did run across a shiny new "competition" razor sharp two person crosscut. It had a very non-traditional teeth pattern, which looked designed to demoralize any competing teams in a lumber jack competition. If I recall correctly, the original owner said he had paid $1600 for it new the year before, and had a starting bid around $800. It's not a Disston competition two person saw is it??? ;-)

Re: 2 man crosscut saw prices

Mike G.


>Thanks everyone for the responses. Those competition saws are kind of pricey. :>( My friend buys and sells well...anything and everything, although he calls it "trading" instead of selling. And he's always got something to trade, from axes to old pocket watches.

He's also got another crosscut saw that looks like it had a ship's name on it, but it's kind of illegible after the USS part. Perhaps two man crosscut saws used to be part of a ship's "kit".

Thanks again, Mike G. in SC

Re: Disston 2 man crosscut saws

Todd Hughes


>Interestingly looking in my old Disston Catalogs I didn't find a No. 128 cross cut saw...are you sure of the number? Disston made LOTS of different types of these saws, more models then thier handsaw line probaly and they must have been an important part of thier bussiness.

...In my experance most of these large cross cut saws can be bought on the cheap in the wild....maybe $10-$25. Most are rusted when found. I have seen a few in better condition where you can read the etch which I take this one must be in.This would probably help the price some.The problim with a tool like this is that I believe Tool Prices are for the most part driven and set by users [or collectors that like to think of thierselves as users!] and just not many users of these large two man saws. What true collector interest there may be in these saws it is probably lessened because the difficulty of storing or displaying 7 foot saws.I do know lots of people like them for decorator pieces but they will be happy with the many rusted junk ones out there so they won't be raising the prices up much

When new these saws were very expensive....for the price of one of them you could have bought 5 or so Stanley no. 1 planes ...Just somthing to ponder....Todd

I can imagine

Bill Houghton, foggy mornings in Sebastopol, CA


>When you read the histories, you read about ships losing a mast and limping to some forested island, where they cut down a likely tree and make a new mast. The felling might have been with an axe, but I suppose a clean cross cut would have gone better with a saw.

No value info, but *LINK*

David Miller from Iowa


>more than you ever wanted to know about these things


DOT Crosscut Saw Manual

Interesting...thanks

Dave Thompson