[SEL] Widowmaker

Edd Payne edsengns at optusnet.com.au
Thu Dec 13 15:04:31 PST 2007


I think you blokes say railroad ties.!!!Its the bit of wood that goes 
between the rails to hold them apart or together depending how you look at 
it.
EDD PAYNE
PO Box 364 Gulgong N.S.W
Australia
2852
Phone:0263742387
edsengns at optusnet.com.au
edsengns
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Best, George" <George_Best at adp.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Widowmaker


> Edd,
>
> What's a "railway sleeper"?  I can usually keep up pretty well with the
> down under jargon, but "railway sleeper" is new to me and isn't
> something I would think you'd cut with a motorized saw.
>
> George
>
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> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:32 PM
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> Subject: Re: [SEL] Widowmaker
>
> HMMM.I been scratchin something to stop itching.Guess I got it wrong.
> There are a lot of these saws here in OZ and are still in regular use in
> this area.Hargans and Mobilco are two that come to mind.Hargans  was
> from a town north of here called Coolah.From memory there was an article
> about him and his development of this saw in an old issue of TOMM.
> Blokes around here that have cut railway sleepers use nothing else and
> still do.They regularly come up  for sale at local auctions.I watched a
> bloke at a show at Gilgandra a town north of here doing  wood sculpture
> using one of these and it was amazing to watch .He was an absolute
> artist.
>
> EDD PAYNE
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