Buffalo Island: Crosscut Saw, Arkansas

Arkansas residents Rudy and Doodle tell stories about using a crosscut saw like the one on display in the Buffalo Island Museum in Arkansas. This story is connected to Buffalo Island Central EAST's online story map From Swamp to Farmland and interactive exhibits at the Buffalo Island Museum, which both trace the history of agriculture in the area. Either click on the video to watch it or follow the instructions below to make it magically come to life like it does in the Museum by scanning this "Crosscut Saw" picture in the HP Reveal app.

Narrator (00:04): A crosscut saw is any saw designed for cutting wood across the grain.

Doodle (00:13): Those old crosscut saws, that's the way we used to cut wood. Our dad would get on to us for riding the saw. You had to know how to use them. They'd sharpen them. Now, I never put the set in it. Rudy said he knew how. After you sharpen them, they'd bend it a little bit and you've got to [ut a set in it before it will even cut again. Take a hammer and chisel or something. I didn't know how to do that. But it was rough back then.

Rudy (00:44): Simond's special four cutter. It's got four teeth there. Two on each side. I wasn't real crazy about them, either.

Asset ID: 8681
Themes: The Way We Worked, agriculture, Arkansas, students, tools, antiques, history, Augmented Reality, AR
Date recorded: 2018
Length of recording: 00:56 s
Related traveling exhibition: The Way We Worked
Sponsor or affiliated organization: Buffalo Island Central High School, EAST (Environmental and Spatial Technology, Inc.); Buffalo Island Museum, Arkansas
More information: https://museumonmainstreet.org/blog-node/storytelling-augmented-reality-rural-arkansas