Re: My sawmill is suddenly going to be very busy this year.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 12:55 am
I've been making some progress but not like I would like. Some of you might have noticed that it's been pretty hot. 
I slow down when it gets above the low 90's.
Mowing grass, working on horse fence (it never stops).
The buzz-saw I normally use was stored at a set of barns down the road and I got it moved up to "The Mill" so I can get it sat up properly to buzz up slabwood. I normally run it with a 90' flat belt and one or the other of my old tractors. Someone had removed the blade guard (very common on these things) and I want to fabricate a new one. They are kind of limited protection but better than nothing.
I have a "saw" I need to move there too. It was originally a multi-function tool that I think was sold by Wards. It has a table saw, a wide jointer and a grinder as it sits and at one time it also had a fair sized bandsaw. The bandsaw was already gone when I got it. It is currently sat up to run from a tractor PTO shaft and was last used by the previous owner to cut tobacco stakes and lumber stacking stickers. The saw, grinder and jointer shaft is the width of the machine and is always in the same place and the table cranks up and down for cutting depth. There is no provision for tipping the arbor nor the table either one. The bandsaw table might have been able to tip. The jointer head needs some work but nothing serious. It's kind of a cool old antique.
I'll look for a picture. If I don't find one I'll try to remember to take one tomorrow.
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I slow down when it gets above the low 90's.Mowing grass, working on horse fence (it never stops).
The buzz-saw I normally use was stored at a set of barns down the road and I got it moved up to "The Mill" so I can get it sat up properly to buzz up slabwood. I normally run it with a 90' flat belt and one or the other of my old tractors. Someone had removed the blade guard (very common on these things) and I want to fabricate a new one. They are kind of limited protection but better than nothing.
I have a "saw" I need to move there too. It was originally a multi-function tool that I think was sold by Wards. It has a table saw, a wide jointer and a grinder as it sits and at one time it also had a fair sized bandsaw. The bandsaw was already gone when I got it. It is currently sat up to run from a tractor PTO shaft and was last used by the previous owner to cut tobacco stakes and lumber stacking stickers. The saw, grinder and jointer shaft is the width of the machine and is always in the same place and the table cranks up and down for cutting depth. There is no provision for tipping the arbor nor the table either one. The bandsaw table might have been able to tip. The jointer head needs some work but nothing serious. It's kind of a cool old antique.
I'll look for a picture. If I don't find one I'll try to remember to take one tomorrow.
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