Wanted-Bandsaw Mill

[trigger_andy]

14 hours ago, Graham w said:

Got me today though!

 

Theres 5 mills forsale, two circular rack benches and three bandracks (and all our older woodwork machinery)

 

The yankee circular in the photo is built on a steel chassis with a sawdust blast fitted and a 100hp perkins 6cly. weighs around 4 tons and theres a road tow kit for it somewhere but very out of date! sat outside for 3 years

 

two others are a large circular rack bench and a stenner 42 spares 

 

unfinished project is a forestor 900 resaw on a stenner bench, pto driven and semi portable. unfinished because we got the Guilliet instead. can finish the build if required. on a steel chassis so no pit needed.

 

Next photos are the Guilliet that replaced the yankee. A very good old school stationary bandrack on plenty of steel so no blockwork just a pit. still installed and fully working. our best saw yet cuts 16' x 3' with 5'' saws.only forsale due to a new mill that replaces everything 

drop me a PM 

 

Awesome Graham! Thanks for sharing. Would love to pop up some time and have a nosy.  

[Graham w]

40 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Awesome Graham! Thanks for sharing. Would love to pop up some time and have a nosy.  

here all the time let me know when ?

[topchippyles]

Some good lads posted in this thread.Very helping posts unlike some threads on here. 

 

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Edited January 1, 2019 by topchippyles

[trigger_andy]

3 minutes ago, Graham w said:

here all the time let me know when ?

Sweet! Will do.  

[Graham w]

On 01/01/2019 at 17:19, trigger_andy said:

Sweet! Will do.  

 

[Graham w]

On 23/12/2018 at 10:45, Big J said:

I had the first Trakmet machine in the UK, I believe. Before the dealership in Hereford was set up.

 

They are good machines. Not great, but good. Solidly built and will last a lifetime, as well as being good value for money. From a design point of view they aren't that clever (having worked with a Serra sawmill the other day, that is apparent) and the engineering precision isn't amazing. But, you get what you pay for and I was generally happy with all my machines. We had a sawmill, log deck, frame sawmill, firewood processor with log deck and edger. Only the edger was substandard.

hi J 

 

do you mind sharing why the edger was substandard? 

 

thanks Graham

[Big J]

30 minutes ago, Graham w said:

hi J 

 

do you mind sharing why the edger was substandard? 

 

thanks Graham

Well they no longer supply that model.

 

The issues were as follows: 

 

• No fence. So when dealing with on side straight edge, your wastage was higher as you had to guess where the straight edge would be and allow wastage for that. 
• Laser guides with dodgy mounts. You'd calibrate the lasers and they'd move and your lineup would go out.
• Poor quality spindle width adjustment. The width is adjusted with a metal spindle rotating with a nylon sleeve on it. The nylon sleeve broke away from it's mount so we lost width adjustment.
• Very stiff width adjustment. The motors didn't travel freely along the rails when propelled by the spindle resulting in a shattered bearing block. This and the above issue meant complete replacement of the spindle, nylon sleeve and bearing block. Not a quick job.
• Poor quality blade mounts on motors. Too easy for the blades to splay, resulting in stalled cutting and much frustration.
• Free standing infeed and outfeed tables, which would have been much better mounted to the edger with a fence.

 

We put over a hundred tonnes through the edger in the couple of years I had it, but it was always a poorer machine than our other (1970's, Finnish) edger. 

I hope that their new one is better.

[trigger_andy]

10 hours ago, Graham w said:

 

Oh, thats very nice!  What where you milling there?

 

Is that one of the machines for sale?