MattS
Nordic Pine
Seen this for sale locally on Facebook - do you think I’ll be able to fit a dado stack? :lol:
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Saw bench
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DaveL
Old Oak
You of course need the steam engine to drive it!
Cabinetman
Sequoia
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- Ian
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
kirkpoore1
Old Oak
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.
Kirk
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.
Kirk
Mike G
Petrified Pine
kirkpoore1":142nvljh said:
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:
kirkpoore1
Old Oak
Mike G":wxen9gx4 said:
Yea, it was straight out of a Dudley Do-Right cartoon.
(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.
Kirk
kirkpoore1
Old Oak
Cool. I've never seen anybody change out the inserts. I didn't realize there were two parts to them.
Kirk
Kirk