The two-handled saw, also called segone, is a large saw (the length varies from 50 cm to 2 meters) equipped with two handles at the ends of the blade.
The pair of lumberjacks, after having made a slit in the trunk of the tree to be felled with the broadaxe in order to establish the direction of the tree's fall, each knelt on one side of the trunk and with a regular rhythm and in an alternating manner pushed towards the partner and pulled the tool towards themselves.
The cutting part of the blade was equipped with rather large teeth (10 mm wide and up to 40 mm high) with a good gap with respect to the central edge of the blade (one tooth facing towards the right edge of the blade, the next facing to the left and so on).
Sometimes the blade was greased with pork lard to facilitate its sliding in the wood during the cutting operation.