I'mma' just leave this here

[Erik Loza]

Game on...
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[Ken Fitzgerald]

There won't be any tight curves cut with that blade.....Just my personal opinion.

[Ben Rivel]

Wow....!!!!

[Frankie Hunt]

Think that bandsaw is big, you ought to see the fellow putting the lumber thru….

[Mike Manning]

That's just friggin' awesome! Would love to watch video of those being resawn with that bandsaw.

[David Eisenhauer]

Impressive, Eric. Impressive indeed. And like Frankie says, how about a shot of the "feeder".

[Matt Day]

The "feeder" probably has hydraulics.

[John McClanahan]

So, is the spot marked with a Sharpie the beginning of a broken blade?

[glenn bradley]

Yikes! Those large saws are awesome. Here's one from a pit saw at Sierra Milling.

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[Peter Kuhlman]

That's nothin!! Bet I can get the blade to track on my 14" Jet if I leave the covers off.:p

Well I would have to extend the riser block a little bit.

I have been nicked by my saw before but that blade takes off a few fingers per tooth. Ouch!!!

[Michael Roberts]

That makes my MM24 look rather puny.

[Bill Dufour]

I would not have thought Texas has wood big enough to justify that size saw. I am surprised the blade is single sided.
Bill

[Erik Loza]

Impressive, Eric. Impressive indeed. And like Frankie says, how about a shot of the "feeder".

The "feeder" probably has hydraulics.

It is actually a mechanical transmission off the main drive shaft...
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Oh, BTW: 60hp...
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So, is the spot marked with a Sharpie the beginning of a broken blade?

Yes! I actually did not notice that until earlier. I am told the blades we have for the McDonough are at least 20 years old. There is a special crate we put them in, to ship out for re-sharpening when needed.
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Yikes! Those large saws are awesome. Here's one from a pit saw at Sierra Milling.

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Yeah, you aren't folding that into a coil.


I would not have thought Texas has wood big enough to justify that size saw. I am surprised the blade is single sided.
Bill

We have some 12" X 12" x 40' salvaged LL beams in the shop. Could be over 100 years old.

[Yonak Hawkins]

Whutcha gonna do with those toothpicks ?

[rudy de haas]

Nice to see Paul Banyon's little bandsaw is still in use. Did you that his handsaw has been preserved too? - http://roamingthegooglestreets.blogspot.ca/2011/05/giant-wood-saw.html

[Chris Hachet]

There won't be any tight curves cut with that blade.....Just my personal opinion.


No there will not.

[Jim Becker]

Hearne has a giant saw with an equally giant blade that they use for resawing "really big logs"...dem teeth do the job! That's a really nice setup there, Erik!

[Martin Wasner]

I wonder what the cutoff point is for moving the saw through the material versus moving the material through the saw. That has to be getting close.

[Bill Dufour]

The old growth redwood mills the band saw is stationary and the logs move.
I looked it up and the current saws at the Scotia mill only go to 72" diameter.
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[Jamie Buxton]

I've visited a redwood mill in northern California, where the main saw is a bandsaw with wheels that are seven feet in diameter, and a blade that is 44 feet long. It can saw logs up to six feet in diameter. The blade about six inches wide, and has two teeth per foot IIRC. The gullets are big, because they run the log through the saw at several feet per second. They sharpen the blade every day.

[Ted Phillips]

There won't be any tight curves cut with that blade.....Just my personal opinion.

I don't know - if you stone the back of the blade you might be able to coax a 10' radius curve out of that guy...

[Larry Edgerton]

Johnson Lumber has one of those. I had then resaw some 14" Makore for me with it, cool iron.