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. References Woodworking hand-held power tools Saws Logging Habitat management equipment and methods Gardening tools