September 4, 20187 yr Popular Post I posted this picture a few years ago and I thought with all the new members, I'd post it again. I just wonder how much that thing weighs. thisiscarpentry.com
September 4, 20187 yr Popular Post In the Spring of 1967 in forestry, we took a 3,000 mile field trip looking at various forestry, logging, and milling operations. In the redwoods, I saw a man riding on the sled holding a log as he fed it into the bandsaw with a blade like that one. Back and forth jolt, back and forth, jolt. He must have had steel abs. Somewhere in Oregon, I saw a high pressure water jet (8-inch rectangular nozzle) blast bark off logs as they entered the mill from the pond. I saw a 6-foor diameter chipper (4 blades) driven by a 1,600 HP motor that reduced a 16-foot log to chips in just seconds. I watched them peel a 3-foot diameter ponderosa pine log at a plywood mill. Before such power tools, my Dad, in the '30's cut redwoods with an axe and a misery whip (handsaw). Big stuff! hat
September 7, 20187 yr It looks like it has teeth on both sides. Maybe the log gets cut going and coming.
September 7, 20187 yr yep, sawyer adjusts each cut, forwards and backwards....cuts the sawing time in half....
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