368 A ONE-MAN CBOSS-GUT SAW. [Mabch, 



A ONE-MAN CROSS-CUT SA W. 



§EFOEE writing to express an opinion on a cross-cut saw sent to 

 us by Messrs. Wrinch and Barnes, of Woodbridge, we were 

 anxious to have its merits tested in every possible way. In 

 order, therefore to give it a thorough trial, it has been handed in 

 succession to the foreman in an estate timber-yard, who is daily 

 cross-cutting blackrinds, oak timber, and logs of all kinds, prepara- 

 tory to putting them on the saw-bench ; to the woodreeve, who, 

 owing to the heavy gales has unfortunately had more than an average 

 amount of cross-cutting on liis hands lately ; and to the bailiffs upon 



the home farm. Thus it has had a fair trial upon seasoned timber, 

 upon green logs, and upon fallen branches of the largest size. The 

 verdict of every man into whose hands it has been placed is that it 

 will prove a great boon to -every one similarly engaged. No tree 

 whose diameter is not too great to afford the saw full play proves too 

 much for it. It is not too much to say that the otherwise laborious 

 operation of cross-cutting is by the aid of Messrs. Wrinch & Barnes's 

 one-man saw made easy and pleasurable. Instead of sending two 

 men, or one man and a stout lad, as formerly, to clear the highways 

 after a high wind, the same amount of work can now be done by one 

 pair of hands. It will be of the greatest possible use in trimming up 

 fallen trees, and effect a great saving of time and of material when 

 compared with the axe. In the wood-yard of a mansion or country 

 house it will prove invaluable. 



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Admiralty Contracts for Timber. — The following names of firms whose 

 tenders were accepted at recent contracts for supplying the Admiralty with 

 English and foreign timber, &c., are given by the Timber Trades Journal. 

 Lignumvitte, Messrs. Irvin and Sellers ; mahogany, Messrs. Hoar and Brown ; 

 English elm timber, Messrs. R. and T. Groom and Son and W. Densham ; Riga 

 hand masts, Messrs. Foy, Morgan, and Co. ; Danzig goods, Messrs. P. J. 

 Albrecht and Co. ; Canada goods, Messrs. R. R. Dobell and Co. ; American pitch 

 pine timber, Messrs. Wm. Crundall, R. and R. Bayly, and T. Bailey ; ash, 

 beech, hornbeam, &c., Messrs. James Bowerman, H. Nay lor, and East and Son ; 

 oak boat crooks, Mulford Bros. ; staves, Morgan, Gellibrand, and Co., and H. 

 and R. Fowler. 



Timber Tender. — The tender of Messrs. Cunnington Brothers, of Norwich, 

 for the supply of oak, elm, and beech timber to the Yarmouth Port and Haven 

 Commissioners, during one year, was accepted last month. 



