dead rollers

[4x4American]

Where can I get dead rollers to make a roller table with?

[drobertson]

sawmill exchange, salvage scrap yards, mills that have shut down,

[fishfighter]

Maybe find a store that is closing down. They use them to unload trucks. I been looking around myself. ;D

[4x4American]

All the ones I've found so far are rusted so bad they aint worth the powder to blow em to hell

[sealark37]

If you have access to a metal lathe, you can buy pipe or tubing along with shafting from the recycling yard.  Go on ebay and find the size bearing you need, and make rollers that will fill your need 100%.  If you cannot go that route, keep searching on CL and the scrap yards.   Regards, Clark

[MP_Wall]

The pallet racking resellers often have them listed in their stock but not on their craigslist ads. MPW

[North River Energy]

What kind of dimensions are you looking for?

[Brian_Rhoad]

Surplus Center has them.

http://www.surpluscenter.com/Wheels/Rollers/

[Larry]

Industrial auctions.  I've bought maybe 20.  Going price is usually $60 - $100 for a 3' X 10' table.  Either skate or straight rollers.  I kept the best plus a couple more incase I bend a roller, which has happened.  Resell the others on craigslist for a couple hundred, sometimes more.

[Tree Dan]

Princess Auto

[4x4American]

What kind of dimensions are you looking for?

I'd get whatever I can get my hands on, I'd like a table that is fairly wide.


Here's what I wanna do, since I'm on the mend, I can't pull boards like I did when I was about 2 months younger.  I want to be able to saw, drag the board back onto some sort of a table, and let it roll and then fall onto a pallet and sort of stack itself and then I can pick up the pallet and move it close to where I'm stickering or onto a trailer to be hauled off.  For the slabs I will push them off the roller table into a slab rack that I can keep clean with a machine.  Not only will it be easier, but it will be more efficient, especially once I'm back to 100%. 

[Kbeitz]

Sounds like you need a pickaroon....

[Larry]

Get two or three roller tables and just put them down.  It won't be long until you change the layout, than change it again.

This is what works ok for me, a hobby sawyer.  I changed things around maybe four times before I was happy.



Sometimes I add an additional two tables so I can flip a cant off the mill backwards.

[4x4American]

Sounds like you need a pickaroon....

I have two.   ;D


Thanks for the picture Larry!

[Brucer]

I made a heavy duty off-loading table for timbers, using the same rollers that WM uses on their twin blade edger. I just bought them as spare parts. They were expensive but they stand up to just about anything you can throw at them, and are weatherproof (unlike the inexpensive ones I bought earlier).

A little tip if you are building your own roller table. A lot of rollers have hex shafts and I see people drilling undersized holes, then filing them out to a hex shape. The holes don't have to be hex shaped. Just drill round holes big enough for the hex shaft to slip into. The edges of the shaft will provide enough friction to keep the shaft from turning.

[4x4American]

Thanks, Brucer.  If anything I would cut a hole big enough for the hex to go through then weld a strip on the top and bottom to brace two sides before I got into filing out an undersized hole!!! Boy that must've taken half a year by the time you file out all the holes for a table!

[Dave Shepard]

If it was actually necessary to have a her home, I would have made a broach. I bought a could of 2'x10' tables at a scrapyard. They had four galvanized ones, but they had been crunched into pretzels by the time I got there. I drag back onto one of them and push slabs over the side onto blocking. Boards go off the end to a stack and flitches go through the edger and then onto the same stack.

[4x4American]

Would love to see a picture of that Dave!

[Dave Shepard]

I'll try to get one when I've got everything back together. Mill is moved to pour concrete.

[4x4American]

 8) concrete 8)

[5quarter]

Ever since my hex hole drill bit broke, I do what Brucer does... ;)

[Brucer]

... Boy that must've taken half a year by the time you file out all the holes for a table!

There's only 3 rollers on my outfeed table. They're spaced 42" apart because there's no danger of a timber sagging between them  :D. It was a pain filing the hex holes, but they were actually part of the structure of the table. If I were doing it again I'd change the design and go with the round holes.

[4x4American]

Ever since my hex hole drill bit broke, I do what Brucer does... ;)

lol lol  maybe u cud use a chisel?..heat up past cherry red, but not quite sheet white, and chisel it out! might go quicker!  But I'd try it on a scrap piece of similar material first.


Brucer I can't knock ya! Your setup and operation is what I'm gonna be modeling mine after once I can find somewhere to set it up. Do whatever ya gotta do, don't pay no mind to me!

[Dave Shepard]

If you had the right size hex on a punch, you could heat the rail and use the handle end of the punch as a drift.

[4x4American]

yea well now that u mention it i have hex's on 3/8" sockets, could just put a 6" extension on it and bam theres your drift.  Heat up the rail nice and lukewarm then bang bang tap tap on to the next one