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Crescent Machine Co
Crescent Machine Company
was founded in Leetonia, Ohio in 1893. It manufactured a line of industrial woodworking machinery, particularly band saws. In 1940, it was bought by Pittsburgh Equitable Meter and Manufacturing Company, which became the Rockwell Manufacturing Company in 1946.
This Treadle operated band-saw is a very sought after machine.
For me it looks very hard to treadle and saw.
Source 1908 Crescent catalogue.
A close up of the treadle mechanism.
Source; OWWM.