Ripsaw Portable Bandsaw?

[beeser]

A Ripsaw portable bandsaw is available for sale locally. Are these any good? The company is no longer in business.

 

[scottr]

If you will scroll down to the thread ' who makes the band mill that bolts to a chainssw ' thread started by gee vee june 15 it should answer your questions .Scott

 

[andy]

Buy it and try it.
There is enough interest in those that you can likely easily unload it if you don’t get along.

 

[beeser]

I picked up the Ripsaw mentioned earlier. Photos below. It's missing at least the guide beam and assemblies that secures it to the log. Anyone that knows where I might be able to purchase these or have advice on making them would be appreciated. The saw that came with it is a Stihl 38AV. I don't know the condition of it as there wasn't any fuel to try it out. Hopefully I can get it to run. It does seem to have good compression though.

 

[scottr]

The ripsaw owners manual is on manualszz.com incase you did not get a copy . It looks like your ripsaw is also missing what is called the guide finger the slides on the side of the 2 by 6 guide beam .

 

[beeser]

I downloaded the manual before picking up the saw. I think the guide finger mentioned above is shown in the second photo tucked in.

 

[Bill G]

I have one that I have still not used. The guide beams are pretty straight forward