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Saw bench

Postby MattS » 09 Mar 2021, 10:24

Seen this for sale locally on Facebook - do you think I’ll be able to fit a dado stack? :lol:


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Re: Saw bench

Postby Mike G » 09 Mar 2021, 10:31

Well that's rather lovely. I hope it ends up in a museum or similar.
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Re: Saw bench

Postby DaveL » 09 Mar 2021, 11:27

You of course need the steam engine to drive it!
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Re: Saw bench

Postby Malc2098 » 09 Mar 2021, 12:03

MattS wrote:Seen this for sale locally on Facebook - do you think I’ll be able to fit a dado stack? :lol:




I suppose it depends how long the arbor is. ;)
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Re: Saw bench

Postby Cabinetman » 09 Mar 2021, 12:11

It was only about seven years ago at a local country fair they had one of these working from a steam engine there were three men feeding huge lumps of timber into it no guards not even a riving knife and the blade was at least 2 feet across. They weren’t doing anything inherently dangerous (except being within half a mile of it) but it scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t stay. So yes off to a museum I think. Ian
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Re: Saw bench

Postby kirkpoore1 » 10 Mar 2021, 05:46

Pretty small arbor holes for that size blade, I think.

I once poured new babbitt bearings for a sawmill with a 54" blade. It was driven by a power takeoff from a tractor. But at least the log was on a carriage and power fed, not hand fed.

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Re: Saw bench

Postby Mike G » 10 Mar 2021, 09:26

kirkpoore1 wrote:.....I once poured new babbitt bearings for a sawmill with a 54" blade........


There's quite a lot going on in this sentence!! Pouring babbet bearings is somewhat of a declining art, and fascinating to watch. As for a 54" blade..... :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Re: Saw bench

Postby kirkpoore1 » 10 Mar 2021, 16:38

Mike G wrote:
kirkpoore1 wrote:.....I once poured new babbitt bearings for a sawmill with a 54" blade........


There's quite a lot going on in this sentence!! Pouring babbet bearings is somewhat of a declining art, and fascinating to watch. As for a 54" blade..... :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:


Yea, it was straight out of a Dudley Do-Right cartoon.

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(A reference you guys probably won't get, I realized as soon as I looked it up. :) )

The sawblade had to be big because it would only cut a log less that than half that, say a 24" log. So not really very big.

I got paid with a trailer load of oak 1x12's.

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Re: Saw bench

Postby Malc2098 » 10 Mar 2021, 17:57

Checkout the blade at this mill. It's driven by a bus motor.

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Re: Saw bench

Postby kirkpoore1 » 10 Mar 2021, 18:56

Cool. I've never seen anybody change out the inserts. I didn't realize there were two parts to them.

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