chubz
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here are a few pics of the new circle mill
Brad,TT, no Snidely involved, but an old guy I know here in town lost a brother to a circular mill like that way back in the forties. His brother stepped over the main drivebelt (stupid) and it grabbed his pantleg and threw him straight into the headsaw. Opened him right up from crotch to neck like a sardine can apparently. He told me by the time they got him to the hospital 20 minutes later, the blood was running out of the car doors and they knew it was hopeless.
Brad,
It sure doesn't look like it would meet OSHA...
That is one honkin' blade! In that regard, Nell was always lucky that Dudley Do-Right got there before she got cut...he was always just seconds before...:monkey:
Circular blades are some type of stupid crazy... Even table saws present a lot of danger, but a huge blade like this spinning in the open air is pretty scary...just means you need to pay attention to what your doing. Could you imagine a company trying to market and sell a product like this today???...impossible, all the blade and belts would need guards on them to be sold, at minimum.
That said, I'd like to see it in action myself.
I hadn't seen that, and watched a few Frick sawmill videos, those are also pretty scary to me. A modern bandmill seems so much safer, although nothing is completely safe, some of the Frick videos show guys reaching in and pulling boards away pretty close to the blade.If you haven't seen it before, here's some old 8mm footage I have on my youtube account of a mill much like it cutting railroad ties somewhere here in the BC interior back in the late 50s or early 60s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3nXDLddFYc
Hey, Big silver I sure would like to hear more about your mill. I like the picture on your icon as well. Good luck with the mill, this one has been fun to work on.
Hi, I'm Chubz's partner with the mill. We didn't worry about OSHA standards, this mill was made before there was an OSHA. I don't mean to make light of it ether but honestly the way we have it set up, you would really have to reach to get caught in the blade. It probably looks a lot more dangerous than it is. We both grew up around agricultural equipment and this saw mill is really no more dangerous than a corn grinder. You just have to pay attention and not get in a hurry.
We are in the process of converting the mill to run off of pto which will do away with the flat belt. Does anybody have any advice on converting a mill to PTO? It was suggested to use a stationary power unit. That would be ideal but very expensive involving running 3 phase approximately 100 yards, we have the tractors available so it would be less expensive to use them. Thanks, Jeff
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