here is a pic of the old saw that they had running at the moggill sawmill, it has been unused for 10 years or so,
tanotehr blade gose underneath the blade you can see, it could cut a 4' log clean in half.
a 60hp 3 phase motor on each blade, and motors run hydraulics on the caridge, feed, log turing, conveyers. they had a 130kva and a 50kva motor running the mill.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/21903/3310/canad_%283%29.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/21903/3310/1.jpg)
i have more pics but cant get them to shrink down
The only way I would run that saw is with a remote camera and controls, from at least a 1/4 mile away.
Corley5 needs that saw ;D :D
That top saw, did it turn in the oposite direction as the one below, you think so ???
Kansas there would be no more danger running this mill set up then a regular sawmill , only difference is the top saw to cut a larger log.
That is something. I wonder if that shaft had any vibration to it?
GF
:o it.s a killer
Your only looking at parts of a mill. Top saws are very common. Here are some photos I took of a big one set up at one of our local engine shows.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw1.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw2.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw3.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw4.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw5.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw6.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw7.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw8.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw9.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw10.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw11.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw12.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw13.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw14.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw15.jpg)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/2400/topsaw16.jpg)
Quote from: Kansas on February 23, 2011, 07:07:24 AM
The only way I would run that saw is with a remote camera and controls, from at least a 1/4 mile away.
And about a thousand feet above! :D
Nice pics,Wouldnt mind salvaging something like that,Know where theres some wild cherry it would take one of those to slab rock maple to.
Jeff, that saw is the cat's meow. Some fella's are big whooses, eh? :D Wouldn't need it very often in these part now a days, since no one lets trees grow very big before they want to whack them down. ;D :D 8) Never seen one set up around here, lots of circulars, never seen a top saw.
Jeff, incredibly great pictures!!! Wouldn't I love to see that in person. 8) 8) 8)
Thanks for posting those, I would like to see one of those too :)
hey sd levesque lumber runs one of those all the time. i havent seen it but ive run some of their lumber through a planer
So you haven't seen one either. :D ;) Poke'n at ya. :)
nope . worked on a circle mill when i first got out of highschool but no top saw i was the tailer and edgerman edger had a hand crank starter i never saw the attraction to circle mills back then. made good money $3.50 hr.
Very impressive pics,Jeff!!! 8) 8)There must be 2 reasons for the roof-1for shade,and 1 to stand on to sharpen the top saw ::) ::) Weisey-You prolly want to fix that rig up after seein those pics,huh :) :) -Buzz
i have a heap more pics of the rest of it, but i cant upload them, for some reason tehre to big and i cant shrink them.
that is what it used to looklike jeff only it had guards and extractors on it. ;D
That is great pics Jeff. If I was to set that mill up here I would hit a railroad spike or some such thing right in that perfect spot where the blades over lap. ;D
All jokes aside that is very impressive.
Do you remember what kind of wood that was Jeff .. sure looks like a pretty grain pattern to it . man thos are nice slabs :)
Its cottonwood.
A top saw would be 8) 8) 8) 8) Ya Marcel I need more junque
I know that I really need to put in a circle mill for output. Even kind of looked at options. But having never been around one, I just keep looking at the safety involved. Maybe they aren't as bad as I think they are. I just know all the stories I have heard.
I don't know many that do not know of someone that has not been hurt on a mill at one time or other, one needs to have a great deal of respect for them and be awake around them also. Too many things can and will go sour way too fast. :o
If you respect the mill and work it like it should, it will become a favorite place to be real quick. They do grow on you. The transformation of a tree to a board is just awsome 8) 8)