Originally Posted by
John TenEyck
Thanks very much for your detailed response, Martin; very much appreciated. I talked with Hudson today. Of course sales guys almost never know how things really work, but I think I confirmed that their tensioning mechanism uses no spring elements, as you said. You mentioned the blade lube system to keep the blade cool so it won't expand, but there is nothing to prevent the frame from changing dimension when the sun hits it or the ambient temp. goes up/down. And steel moves a lot more than you might first think, certainly more than the stretch required to take a blade from the correct tension to either way too high or too low. Nevertheless, somehow it all seems to work, but I'd much prefer to have a spring loaded system.
One more question if I might, Martin. How do you find the frame on the Hudson as far as turning the log to create a cant? The cross beams are just angle iron vs. the box beams on many other mills.
John