Big hack saw.

[wmec627]

Never came across a hack saw this size before.
I’m wondering if it was a bone saw for butchering?
It’s interesting.

 

[JohnX14]

I'd guess that your are on target. I've never seen a saw that size and style for construction

 

[RTM]

Definitely a butcher or bone saw.

 

[Old tool guy]

I would have thought a butcher saw would be all metal so it could be sanitized.

 

[rsanter]

That’s a bone saw, I have had several of them over the years.
very good item to have around as your daughter starts dating

 

[RTM]

That’s a bone saw, I have had several of them over the years.
very good item to have around as your daughter starts dating

I lined up my bone saws, hatchets, axes, and I think machetes on the front balcony one year for Halloween, back lit them quite well. Still no one noticed.

 

[RTM]

I would have thought a butcher saw would be all metal so it could be sanitized.

Nowadays, without a doubt sanitizable. Some with plastic handles.

But back pre-Depression, or pre-The Jungle, probably wipe it off on their apron

Disston 1923

Henry Disston & Sons, Inc. : Price List : 1923 [January 1918 Third Revised Edition] : Henry Disston & Sons, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

254 p., illus., 15.9 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

 

[Old tool guy]

But back pre-Depression, or pre-The Jungle, probably wipe it off on their apron

I hope they at leased wiped on a clean part of the apron.

 

[wmec627]

I hope they at leased wiped on a clean part of the ap

It is noncompliance by today's standards for certain.
Mild steel and wood are unsuitable for food production.
I worked in a seafood processing facility for many years.
Everything today is stainless steel, aluminum and plastic.