Old man... Can't remember...

[Warren]

Appreciate if you could humor an old man.   Drawing a blank.   For a sawmill like a big circle saw, there is a name for the hinged /articulated arm that bridges over the saw head from the cab to the set works.  Carries the electric and/or hydraulic lines.   One end is stationary.   The other end traverses back and forth with the carriage.  

Google and ChatGPT are both giving me names that are not what I looking for.   Appreciate if someone could refresh my memory...  

Thank you!

Warren

[SawyerTed]

Pantograph, if I'm not mistaken.  

[Resonator]

Agree, you're referring to the pantograph. Old term going back to the electric railroad trains that had a flexible frame on top off the engine, that contacted powerlines over the tracks.

[Magicman]

You are not mistaken Ted. 

I only have two memory problems;  Short term and Long term.

[WV Sawmiller]

Lynn,

    If it gets bad enough you can always run for.... Oh never mind. Just keep on sawing.

[Warren]

"Pantograph" is indeed the word.  Have had that word bouncing around in my head for several days.  At the moment, have no recollection WHY I was trying to think of pantograph.  But, it will come to me eventually...

Appreciate everyone's help.  Thank you !

Warren

[jpassardi]

"Short term and long term"  I like that one Lynn  I'll be sure to keep it going.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I always say the memory is the second thing to go and I can't remember what the first thing was.

[LeftFinger]

I suffer from CRS

Can't Remember sh_t   err how do you spell that

[Resonator]

My uncle always said losing you're memory was great, because you can make new friends every day!
(When you can't remember the old ones).

[beenthere]

A lost memory is one thing, but a loose memory is something else. 

[Magicman]

So far my salvation is that I don't care.  If I don't think that it is important then it really doesn't matter anyway.  I am trying to be content in my own skin.

I smile and speak to strangers in the parking lot like they are old friends.  I can imagine them walking away thinking that "that man was crazy" or either "I must be going crazy" because I don't remember that guy.  Either way I win. 

[SawyerTed]

I learned the term pantograph back when I was learning drafting almost 50 years ago.   It is an articulated arm with a stylus that follows a template for lettering.  An additional arm has a marking instrument (pen or pencil) for applying the letters to the velum.  

Later I learned the meaning regarding machinery and sawmills.  My first experience with a pantograph was in a shipyard where I saw my first CNC plasma cutter cutting steel plate.   The power and air feed were via a pantograph.  

But what the heck did I do yesterday?  What day is it?  Am I supposed to be somewhere? 

[Digger Don]

Apparently, I'm not the only one who suffers from Sometimers Disease. Luckily, it has yet to progress to Alzheimer's.

[KenMac]

I suffer from CRS

Can't Remember sh_t  err how do you spell that

Can't remember STUFF.................always usable.