Some of you know that me and my family bought my grandparents farm house, ive been busy trying to balance free time and get crud done time and its been tough for me to stay on task.

Any way, colder weather is on its way here in Wi so i decided to stat putting together a small shop down in the basement.

Well for years I've seen this homemade contraption and could never figure out what it was till about 15 minutes ago.

 

 

Edited January 8, 201610 yr by John Morris
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Cool!!

That's really neat.

Prehistoric archives! Really cool Dave. So what was the final mind grab that made you figure it out? By that way folks would pay good money to have something like that in the corner of their room by the fireplace. I know you wouldn't sell it perhaps, but the fashion value on it is worth mentioning.

It was the tabs in the tip of the arms that hold the blade and the slit in the table that finally gave it away. 

Im sure someone would pay $ for it.

On 1/13/2016 at 5:33 AM, Scout80 said:

Im sure someone would pay $ for it.

Ya but, it belonged to Gramps right!

Very nice.  I know several folks that have several treadle powered wood working tools.  A few years back I was looking into getting one of the bottoms from one of those old treadle sewing machines and making one but so far it is only a pipe dream   In the right market that treadle saw should sell nicely.

 

 

DW

Great find - Always love these old WORKING machines.  Unfortunately, mine is broken right now and still haven't found the time to fix it.