Blank cutting tool..gloat

[Thomas Bennett]

I hauled this bandsaw home on Monday. It is a Tannewitz GHE36. It weighs 2900 lbs and is almost nine feet tall. I has a hydraulic braking mechanism to stop the blade. We dragged it off the trailer (homemade, compliments are welcome!) and almost tipped it over.

[David Christopher]

nice gloat Thomas, ....looks like you could saw your shop in half with that

[Steve Schlumpf]

Now that is a saw to be proud of! Kind of big for pen blanks though...... Hope no one pulled anything getting that monster into the shop!

[Doug Thompson]

Nice find and that baby will cut some wood.

[Brad Hammond]

That's pretty unbelievable! Congrats!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Wow. Congrats on a great saw.

[alex carey]

congrats on the bandsaw, good looking trailer to.

[Jeff Nicol]

Thomas, I would have to build another shop to get that thing in it! You can do some great resawing with that monster! So was the cost good or out of this world? I need a bigger band saw some day but that day is slow to get here.

Have fun with you new monster!

Jeff

[Gordon Thompson]

With a big enough lever, Archimedes can move the Earth....Thomas Bennett will just cut it in half!

[Cyril Griesbach]

A friend of mine has one very similar to that. He completely rebuilt it and it's really something to cut on. You're going to love yours.

[curtis rosche]

ill trade ya a bowl for it!!!!? that is a pretty nice saw. ive never heard of a bad tanny.

[David Harmon]

Holy HELL... That is a monster. I am trying to get enough money for a 3520b, I couldnt imagine the cost of that sucker! Good find and tear some wood up!

[Thomas Bennett]

Tannewitz still makes the saw(it's the GHE model) I found one dealer site on the net pricing a new one at $19,000.00. I bought mine for considerably less, and although it works, needs some additional investment for a rebuild.

[Rick Cicciarelli]

Jeesh...I see some of these huge old saws on Craigslist from time to time like this and it makes me wonder how accessible new blades are, and how much blades cost for these sorts of things?

[Gary Max]

Now that's a bandsaw-----how wide of a band will it run????
Oh
Now I have another reason to kick my junk Laguna.

[Bruce Smith]

Man alive, now thats what I call a bandsaw. I wouldn't think blades should be an issue as you could always purchase stock and make your own. You are fortunate you didn't loose it while unloading it from the trailer as it might have been disastrous. When I was a teenager I delivered newspapers in a factory (iron & brass foundry) they had a huge bandsaw in the pattern shop that resembled your baby. I certainly believe you will enjoy it, hope it doesn't operate on 550 service as installing that would be expensive.

[Thomas Bennett]

The blades aren't a problem. The sharpening service I use at the shop makes the blades I use on my 20: Delta-Milwaukee. I plan on buying a spool, though , and welding my own. It takes a 19'6" blade. The power required is 440/230 3 phase, which I have via a 20 hp convertor. I had it running already, although I have since taken quite a bit of the saw apart to clean, repaint, etc. I'll post some more photos after Iget it put back together.

[Gary Chester]

Holy Crap!!!

Time to replace that puenny (sp) motor on your lathe with a peterbuilt!!!

[Jack Mincey]

Nice bandsaw, just how darn big is your lathe. Hope it can handle the blanks that saw can cut out.
Jack