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Started by hackberry jake, January 26, 2020, 09:05:58 PM

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hackberry jake

My brother helped me out quite a bit when i had my mill. We both thoroughly enjoyed sawing our own lumber/beams from locally harvested trees. Recently i bought an old robot with a 25' long linear axis for $500. We are planning on using the existing linear guides, rack and pinion drive, and support steel as a start for a sawmill build. The two linear guides are only 20" or so apart, so we are either going to cut them apart and widen them or make a woodmizer style uni-rail kind of design. I'll keep everybody updated on our progress with this thread.


 

 
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YellowHammer

Well, that's something you don't see everyday.  This will be cool.  
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Sawing is fun for the first couple million boards.

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Ljohnsaw

From your previous post about the weight of this thing, I'm assuming not mobile milling?
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Stuart Caruk

Great score, but remember that those robots are installed typically in climate controlled buildings. The lower linear rails don't like moisture and condensation and will quickly rust. Once rust sets in, those $80k rails are junk. I've installed several automated end tagging robots in sawmills, a few installations use 30' linear rails. With continual use and drip lubrication of tranny fluid, they seem to be holding up. At mills that shut down for weeks on end, they are having issues. 

I'm curious to see how this will progress.
Stuart Caruk
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donbj

Mount a saw blade on the end of that robotic arm and get at'er. Run it from your lap top :D
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thecfarm

Stuart,I run a robot like that and worked on them for about 20 years. That building was not climate controlled. And there was water jets too. We cut out interior trunk parts with them. We only had 1 robot that was on a gantry. There was a lot of moisture kicking around. We did have another gantry that 3 robots moved across it. But that did not work out and we kept the robots in one place.
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