Coiling blades

[Tom]

It makes a pretty smooth flow if you roll the band inside out when you take it off of the saw.

Being wrong side out, you won't accidentally put it back on, and it is ready to be set.

Set the band, roll it right side out, set the other side and then.....

put it on the sharpener.

Set and then Sharpen always made more sense to me.  I didn't have to scrub the burr off of the teeth. 

[VictorH]

I have not used my sharpener and setter yet but I too thought that setting first made more sense than deburring.  I realize that the width of the cut will be slightly thinner.  It can't be that much though.  Anyone else set and then sharpen?

[Chuck White]

It makes a pretty smooth flow if you roll the band inside out when you take it off of the saw.

Being wrong side out, you won't accidentally put it back on, and it is ready to be set.

Set the band, roll it right side out, set the other side and then.....

put it on the sharpener.

Set and then Sharpen always made more sense to me.  I didn't have to scrub the burr off of the teeth. 

This is exactly what I do Tom!
When the dull blade comes off the mill, I invert it then coil it and put it in the truck!
At this point, it will be ready to set.

I have not used my sharpener and setter yet but I too thought that setting first made more sense than deburring.  I realize that the width of the cut will be slightly thinner.  It can't be that much though.  Anyone else set and then sharpen?

I have set, then sharpened for quite some time now, It really makes things a lot easier and more systematic!

[moonhill]

The way I sharpen means I have to flip the band every time I sharpen, when the band comes off the saw I flip it and mark the weld with a marker for my starting point.  I don't set every sharpening and the setter is a dual tooth setter and is set in its use position, not flipped.  I happened to get one I had neglected to flip back.  I always check as I am putting on a fresh band now.  

Tim

[Bibbyman]

After 15 years, three mills, a couple two or three million board feet, 10,000+ machine hours of sawing, a body is bound to get complacent.

This afternoon I needed to use the vice in the sawshed.   I had hung a coiled blade over it.  Although normally I'd have a wire tying the coils, this one was "free" as it had come out of a flat pack and I was fresh out of wires.  I had what I intended to clamp in the vice in my left hand and picked up the blade in my right.  It sprang open as I took it from the vice.  It bit me in maybe five places.  The one at the base of my thumb the worse of the collection.   






The cut wasn't all that bad but it bleed too much for me to keep on working so I went in and cleaned it up and put a band-aid on it.

[Tom]

That's good for your high blood pressure, Bibby. :D

If you let a little out, your heart doesn't have to work so hard.  ;D

[beenthere]

Bibby, that is an "ouch". Hope I see that much blood deer hunting tomorrow (and not my own  ).

[backwoods sawyer]

Thanks Bibbyman ;D, that reminds me I have a loose saw that needs a wire put on it. : I was talking with a visiting sawyer and just hung it up in the dull saw rack rather then cut a new wire for it. : I did make a mental note that there was a lose saw on the rack. ;D
No harm, no foul, but that looks like a foul. :-\

[Chuck White]

The way I sharpen means I have to flip the band every time I sharpen, when the band comes off the saw I flip it and mark the weld with a marker for my starting point.  I don't set every sharpening and the setter is a dual tooth setter and is set in its use position, not flipped.  I happened to get one I had neglected to flip back.  I always check as I am putting on a fresh band now.  
Tim

I "sort of" forgot that some mills have the teeth pointing in the opposite direction of the Wood-Mizer!
On the LT40, the teeth rotate towards the operators side of the mill as it goes through the log!

Well, as soon as I remove a dull blade from the mill, I invert it and at that point it is ready to set the first side.
As soon as the first side is set, I invert the blade again and it's ready for the other side to be set.
Then when the second side is set, the blade can go right onto the sharpener, then it's ready to go on the mill again!