bow saw
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bow saw
A saw having a narrow blade which is held taut in a bowed frame.
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Many years ago, I was able to purchase replacement blades for my 36-inch bow saw, which were made in Sweden.
Police discovered a receipt at Brown's flat showing he had spent hundreds of pounds on items including a bow saw, heavy duty gloves, cleaning materials and rubble sacks.
We learned to judge the lean of a tree, to sever a bended sapling with one stroke of an ax, to pull (not push) a bow saw blade, and to prune branches near the trunk.
Atop one of three hay wagons, a skinny teenage boy with a crew cut stoops down to the rusty junk piled at his feet and hoists a bow saw into the air.
Everyone took a turn using the sturdy, triangle-shaped bow saw to cut through the trunk.
They then cut his body into nine pieces using a jig-saw, an axe and a bow saw before packing the parts in bin liners and laundry bags.
Her helping me to install a new blade in my bow saw would be a fair illustration.
The tools you need at the very minimum include a spade for planting, a bow saw for harvesting, and pruning snips.
I've got a strimmer that I foolishly think makes me look like the bass player from The Clash, a chainsaw, a splitting wedge, a bow saw, and my latest toy, a saw horse.
A 100m section of hedging trees was cut down by an individual using a bow saw on Bagillt foreshore, which looks out on the Dee estuary.
Use a sharp bow saw for thick branches, loppers for those a little smaller and secateurs for twiggy growth.
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