sawmill carriage for uprite bandsaw

[Ira Matheny]

I have a 36" Yates American 7.5 hp bandsaw. Works great. But I also have a lot of cants of hardwoods that I wish to resaw. I have tried to push them thru by hand with very poor and unacceptable results.
Therefore, I would like to obtain (make?) a headsaw log carriage. This carriage could not depend upon the saw for any support except alignment. It cannot depend upon the existing table.
Since much of my wood is in the 8' to 10' length, I cannot get benefit from the normal devices used my many of us to breakdown short logs/beams.
Does anyone have any ideas? Is such a device commercially available? Are there any plans for this available?

[Jim Matthews]

Here's a homebrew version of a sled...bandsaw log carriage (http://mywoodadventures.blogspot.com/2011/01/bandsaw-log-sled-and-resaw-fence-for.html).

I've done this, up to eighty pound logs. Two things are essential; the log must be fixed at two points on each side or it will roll as the blade passes and the outfeed table must be slightly lower than the BS table.

[Rod Sheridan]

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid914320544001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAD7G5wBE~,5GVOQuNJ N71MJ4fvSgdEsbYEKo4_iYO2&bctid=68244692001

Laguna has a machine, maybe you can make something similar using a ladder as a track..........Rod.