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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

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You can say that again.

BBfanboy - that's a lovely lady.

Regarding the crosscut saw in the photo up-page, it appears that it consists of two 10-foot crosscut saws welded together. I wonder how they kept the tree from "pinching" the saw as they cut through.

Who's the iconic actress, the iconic actor, and which movie? (No fair googling.)

P.S. This is a great movie, starring another iconic actor (not pictured) in his first well-known role.

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

BBfanboy - that's a lovely lady.

Regarding the crosscut saw in the photo up-page, it appears that it consists of two 10-foot crosscut saws welded together. I wonder how they kept the tree from "pinching" the saw as they cut through.

Red Green explains it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaESf9Q6TWM

That's hilarious, MakeeLearn.

I suppose they did it by driving wedges or shimmies in the cut behind the saw.

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Who's the iconic actress, the iconic actor, and which movie? (No fair googling.)

P.S. This is a great movie, starring another iconic actor (not pictured) in his first well-known role.

warspite1

Bette Davis and Leslie Howard I think - I don't know the film though

Yup, Warspite, you have the actors right. (BTW, Leslie Howard was a spectacularly gifted actor.)

I won't give the name of the movie (or the unpictured iconic actor) until others have had a chance to chime in. It's a movie worth seeing, for those who aren't familiar with it. B&W, 1936, set in one small locale, and dependent on great acting (not CGI) to make it all work.

The same idea of using wedges to fall a tree but this tree is much smaller:

how to fall a tree with a wedge and a chainsaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fvMELItvTY

There would be more wedges and probably much thicker ones as well. You might even have men pounding the wedges while the other men used the saw.

The Petrified Forest? But where is Bacall?

Bacall isn't in The Petrified Forest. You must be thinking of Key Largo, which is a palm-tree-n-hurricane version of The Petrified Forest.

RangerJoe is correct - it is The Petrified Forest.

Who played the arch villain?

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

BBfanboy - that's a lovely lady.

Regarding the crosscut saw in the photo up-page, it appears that it consists of two 10-foot crosscut saws welded together. I wonder how they kept the tree from "pinching" the saw as they cut through.

Exactly! I was looking for a huge back-cut notch to ensure the tree fell in the desired direction and did not pinch the saw as it worked. Where is Paul Bunyan's axe!

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

BBfanboy - that's a lovely lady.

Regarding the crosscut saw in the photo up-page, it appears that it consists of two 10-foot crosscut saws welded together. I wonder how they kept the tree from "pinching" the saw as they cut through.

Red Green explains it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaESf9Q6TWM

Objection, Your Honour! This Red-Green guy is appearing in a Naval Game forum with his suspenders on the wrong shoulders! Every sailor knows green is for the starboard shoulder and red for the port shoulder! Doesn't matter if he's Canadian and used to being contrary ...

He's a lumberjack and he's okay, he sleeps all night and he works all day.

There is a Paul Bunyon in Bemidji and in Brainerd.

There are the lesser known beauties...

Joy Harman, the "NYC Donut Queen" at the 1957 USO.

Lesser-known beauties...

ORIGINAL: warspite1

....Jean Simmons....

Isn't she also of Dark Shadows fame?



TOMLABEL

Don't forget Donna Reed.

They Were Expendable
It's A Wonderful Life
Casablanca

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