In Reply to: Re: One more Photo of the Saw posted by Kirk-NJ on December 29, 2012 at 12:23:54:
Your saw looks to be a fairly early Ferguson made by the Dellinger company. Some of the telltale signs that it is early: It has a horizontal angle spanning side-to-side between the lower link pins, rather than the later Dearborn saws that used one long round bar that acted as both the link pins at each side as well as the structure that tied the two uprights together. The wood table does not wrap around the blade as the later Dearborns did. This was a feature that was later added to help flip the cut pieces of wood away from the blade and to keep them from making contact with the blade guard as they fell to the ground (if they were not being caught by a helper). The pulley is cast steel instead of pressed paper. The blade guard is the early style.
The saw does have the short upper link yoke pieces that attach to the bracket that you have mounted to the rear of the belt pulley. This would indicate they were made for the pulley to set further away from the rear of the tractor when using the Hub City cast spacer you have along with the splined adapter that allows the early 1-1/8" belt pulley to work on a later 1-3/8" tractor spline. The saws made for a belt pulley that mounted directly to the tractor, without the need for the spacer and splined adapter, had longer upper link yoke pieces.
I have not seen the legs you ask about on a saw as early as yours - only on the later Dearborn models. The legs are not used to level the saw when in use as the upper link yoke pieces are designed to the correct length to force the saw to operate level. They are to allow the saw to sit level when removed from the tractor and stored. They made hooking up the saw a lot easier.
Clint
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