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From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Emerson Horizontal bandsaw?
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:27:01 -0400
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"James Waldby"  wrote in message news:varogu$cq74$1@dont-email.me...
Bob La Londe <none@none.com99> wrote:
> On 8/27/2024 3:02 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
>> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:val753$33ff9$1@dont-email.me...
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My first attempt at a sawmill was a 10" Sears vertical bandsaw with a coarse 
tooth 3/4" wide blade. I removed it from its stand and added wooden feet 
that ran on narrow strips of conveyer track mounted on the sides of my 
utility trailer. The trailer tongue jack tilted the trailer and track for 
gravity feed.

Though it cut a wall's worth of knot-free 5/4" x 9" wide oak boards for 
bookshelves the feed rate with the 1/2 HP electric motor was very slow, up 
to half an hour per board. The blade cracked in the gullets from bending 
around the 10" wheels and cupping up or down became a problem as the blade 
dulled.

The idea might be more practical for narrower rip cuts in soft wood, it was 
a fairly simple modification without any welding. When a neighbor parted out 
a damaged motorcycle I took the wheels to build my current larger bandsaw 
mill, which nears its limit with a 20" wide cut in oak. The wheels' only 
real disadvantage is that their load rating is well below the recommended 
blade tension. I split the difference since they won't hit potholes. The 
advantages over trailer wheels are the included drive sprocket and double 
ended axles. The simple square tube 'ladder' frame runs straight between the 
axles, a sawmill that cuts in from the outside doesn't need the throat depth 
of a C frame. The throat depth is still over 12" which allows me to cut two 
maximum 12" x 20" beams from one log. I don't think the 6.5HP engine would 
allow a longer cut with my 3/4" tooth pitch blades.

I didn't expect the larger trees to ever come down, but a squall blew one 
against and dropped another and the neighbor's clearing exposed a third to 
the full force of wind so I had it taken down, as it could have fallen on 
the house. I slab them narrow enough to fit the saw with the chainsaw 
ripping guide that holds the bar at a right angle to a 2x6 plank.