Forestor Saw Mill

[Phelan1956]

Does anyone know about these saw mills? It is a Forestor 32, it has been fitted with electic motors. I would like to change back to a diesel motor, can anyone advise as to what the were originally fitted with? I have quite a few

3 and 4 inch wide tungston tipped blades which came with the machine I would like to fit more modern blades to this machine, can I fit 1 1/2 or 2 inch blades? It has all metal drive wheels. I am living in France and it is currently costing me well over 100 euros a blade to be sharpened and I cannot locate a sharpening machine here that will do the blades I have, at a reasonable price.

[agrimog]

you will need an engine of aprox 1.3 times the power of the electric ones fitted, and dont change down to thinner blades, the finished cut will be terrible, this is the biggest problem with bandmills and thin blades, lateral stability, wide blade =good=flat smoothish finish, thin blade= poor=ripples and troughs, have for a band sharpener that will take a cbn disc, there pricey, but so is 100 euro a hit