title: Sally Saw
text: # Sally Saw
  
  A sally saw is a portable, mechanical, motorized saw.
  
  It was used for limbing (removing branches from the stem of a felled tree), and bucking (cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs).
  
  ## Construction
  
  A sally saw consists of several parts:
  
  * An engine (internal combustion)
  * A drive shaft that transmits power from the engine out to the cutting blade
  * A cutting blade - a circular saw, sometimes hidden within a guard
  
  ## History
  
  The sally saw was created by the Cummings Machine Works in the first half of the 20th century.
  
  