Anyone using carbide bandsaw blades

[tapeavy]

I have a Enercraft/Baker 30htl with a 35 hp kubota diesel - running 24" wheels. We are resawing pipeline mat timbers. Power washing them but they are very hard dried oak and we are eating blades.

Are any of you guys running anything like a Lennox tri metal blade? If so, any problems? Concerned about blade breakage etc.

Any help would be appreciated. Thx

[Southside]

I do run carbides on my re-saw and have some for my 70, but no way on Earth I would use them in the application you are asking about.  With that hardness comes brittleness and you would be destroying them with all the embedded stone.  

[tapeavy]

Thanks for the information.

[Magicman]

Here is a recent discussion about carbide blades:  A day cutting wood in Sawmills and Milling

[barbender]

The best use for old mats is the burn pile, I'm afraid. There's no blade that can stand up to imbedded rocks that you'll always find in them.

[Bruno of NH]

You could try a timber wolf bi  metal band
I have some for reclaimed lumber.

[Woodpecker52]

I would just clean up the timbers and sell them as oak beams.

[tapeavy]

Thanks for the advice and info guys.

We sell most of them as rustic beams and don't have any rocks in them. (mud is a different issue though)

Appreciate your replies and again thx.

[Woodpecker52]

If it was me I would use the cheapest blades I could find.

[Stephen1]

Your profile doesn't list your location. I have done those, almost impossible with the embedded dirt and stone, if they are frozen it is even worse. Let them thaw, then use the cheapest blade you can, if you have a sharpener, start sharpening on the cheapest blade you can find.
I made money doing them for a guy but we were only skinning them so he could build a TF garage. I would go thru 20 blades in a day but the man paid.  8)