SE Manitoba | Supa Dexta - 11/14/2020 08:43
What do you mean by a cutter?
They were ubiquitous in NW Alberta from the 1950s into the 1980s.
Went looking - - - - can't find any pictures.
There was some done in the last 15 years in the far north in Alberta - - - Fort Vermilion and La Crete areas but nothing like in the 60s and into the 70s.
Maybe I can find some beginning of the week but none extant on the web right now.
visually - - - - drop off the blade and leave on the C-frame
now put on something that is a V cutter.
Looks a little like a guarded in V.
At most there was an opening up so that when the operator was cutting there was a hole with intermediate bars to deflect anything.
Guys were killed when a slender tree drove through the cutter and stabbed the operator.
So the sides were vertical for some 6 ft and then the sides were built inwards in a sort of arch fashion.
On the bottom of the frame there was a 1 to 2" thick cutterbar placed horizontally - - - width was from 6 to 10" and there was a torch cut taper on the last maybe 2" of cutter bar.
That taper would be sharpened occasionally using an angle grinder.
Rocks are HARD on the cutterbar!!!
Dunno if my description is adequate.
Will try to get some pics early next week.
(Looked at a few contractors that still exist from those days - - - - no pics or they're not on line - - - they never needed to - - - grin!) |
POTD
