The Forestry Forum
General Forestry => Sawmills and Milling => Topic started by: ATLGA on September 12, 2013, 09:15:19 AM
We have a 14" resaw that eats big cants all day long. We are flipping these darn things without the aid of a log turner type device like we have on the actual mill. Its time to upgrade. Has anyone ever added some kind of flipper to their resaw? ???
The only one I have seen is on a re saw that saws large cants down, a round about system, theirs uses high speed hydraulics that hits the bottom corner, flipping them quickly, as to the design, not sure about this, david
Are you running a verticle resaw or a horizontal resaw? Either or, a turner can be adapted easily. Let me know what type and I might have some additional pics of projects laying around here I could send to you. Many times the easiest way is a vertically mounted hydraulic cylinder powered of off a portable power pack which has a pusher end. You can usually get a 90 degree rotation with about 12" of movement. This could all be timed and set by using a solenoid with a limiting switch. Provide some basic info regarding your set up and we can go from there.
NMFP
That sounds like a good idea. Do you have an email address I could send them to?