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In the hopes that the OP still monitors this post, let me share some of my almost 30 years experience with the RIPSAW mill. Make ALL your cuts with the guide beam to reduce wavy cuts. This limits you to 8/4 or 10/4 (to clear the guide beam clamps), but you can re-saw those to 4/4 or 5/4 using...

This has FINALLY been resolved! Life and firewood needs got in the way over the winter. I ordered replacement blades from a different manufacturer (LENOX), set both rudimentary tracking adjustments on this mill to their full travel and presto, the blades stay tracked! Did a balsam fir the...

Thanks Mr Kanta and Ripturner, but I completed the sale for Ryan's saw last month and no longer have need for a parts saw. I was away from Maine for a month and just before I left, I was working with TimberWolf to determine whether the blades are indeed my issue. I am 99% certain that they are...

My McCulloch Eager Beaver 3.7 (PM610 equivalent) has always been a PITA to start, especially when it's been sitting for extended periods. I usually fiddle with the choke and yank the starter until my arm gets tired, then let it sit a few minutes and repeat. Eventually, it starts. IMO, these...

Thanks, Rob, here's what I did, from above. Crown was originally oriented so that the high point was at the back of the driven wheel. The blade was coming off the front of the driven wheel before I started futzing with it and it's still doing that.

well, back to the workbench for more futzing...blade won't track worth a damn when powered...when tested by hand, I put the entire saw back together, including the covers, and this means I couldn't grab the wheels to test tracking, I had to grab the blade itself and likely skewed the hand...

LOL, the population density difference between the West/Southwest and the Northeast is hard to imagine if you don't live here. there are 30+ million people within a day's drive of Maine and they would strip the Baxter State Park designated campgrounds bare of firewood in a year. It wasn't...

Here in Maine, you have to buy campfire wood at the campground, at least in Baxter State Park, even if you can prove you are a resident. I guess they are concerned with invasive pests hitching a free ride in firewood from down state or out of state.

could definitely be other issues. I've seen some threads on 034 issues, so I'll look into those kinda what I thought my experience and procedure exactly. don't really want to hold a 45 pound mill and saw with one hand and crotch start:crazy: thanks!

I use a Stihl 034AV powerhead for my better-built RIPSAW bandsaw mill. It's totally adequate for the job but it's a PITA to start. On more than one occasion, it yanks the starter handle right out of my hands or the starter rope pulls right through the handle. The starter rope also doesn't...

The best option, IMO. I think hardware stores or Home Depot/Lowe's stock composite handles with that profile now.

sale pending for Ryan's RIPSAW, even though I think I may have fixed the problem with mine. It turns out that there is a tracking adjustment for this saw and I never knew about it, even after 30 years of use. It's on the cover for the drive wheel. It doesn't provide much total adjustment...

P.S. - my RIPSAW (build date 1990) has ridges at the front and back of the driving wheel, presumably to help the blade track. The driven wheel only has a ridge at the front. Whether this was intentional or due to quality control at better-built or due to 30 years of use is an unsolved mystery.

Yes, I would still like to claim "dibs" on Ryan's RIPSAW. :sweet: new bearings in the driven wheel, replaced thrust washers with same thickness roller thrust bearings. drive wheel bearings have no apparent play front-to-back or side-to-side, but replacement is an option. guide bearings also...

thanks for the prompt replies! Andy, the "problem" blades did indeed come from Timber Wolf. They are the 3/4" x 2/3VPC spec and are the only blades available specifically for the RIPSAW. I read the "tooth style", "tensioning" and "catalog" documents on their web site thoroughly. I did note...

Hi, New user and occasional lurker. This site seems to have the most recent traffic on the "better-built" portable bandsaw mill, so I thought I would ask my question here. I bought one of these machines from the original manufacturer 25 years ago. I can't say "I love it" but it has become...