Wavy bandsaw

[topchippyles]

3 minutes ago, Tippin Alaybye said:

just watched the stephen Cull videos. did exactly as he showed and lost 3 fingers and 2 pints of blood.

great to watch a master craftsman

Reminds me of me this comment ?

Edited September 16, 2020 by topchippyles

[Tippin Alaybye]

err, typo??

just ordered his blades.

thanks guys, as ever, after posting on here, my bank account is lighter ?

[Tippin Alaybye]

my next question is, i have an Oregon grinder, please sweet baby jesus tell me i can use this to sharpen my blades. Do i have to get a tooth setter as well?

i thought my only consumables was gonna be Fairy Liquid

[Khriss]

Yea, you can,  just need to get tooth geometry correct then yr away, k

[Squaredy]

1 hour ago, Tippin Alaybye said:

my next question is, i have an Oregon grinder, please sweet baby jesus tell me i can use this to sharpen my blades. Do i have to get a tooth setter as well?

i thought my only consumables was gonna be Fairy Liquid

Getting them sharpened properly is a challenge also.  I could tell you about several professional saw doctors who do not sharpen them correctly.  Stephen cull does sharpen them right, but yes it also is a can of worms. 

[topchippyles]

12 hours ago, Squaredy said:

Getting them sharpened properly is a challenge also.  I could tell you about several professional saw doctors who do not sharpen them correctly.  Stephen cull does sharpen them right, but yes it also is a can of worms. 

Is the love life the same these days gav (challenging) ?

[gobbypunk]

Hi yeah Stephen Cull is the man for sharpening I would not use anybody else .

[gobbypunk]

He is also a totaly helpfull guy he is a font of knowledge .

[trigger_andy]

On 16/09/2020 at 19:45, Tippin Alaybye said:

WHAT??? bloody hell. didn't know that about changing blades! i am going as quickly as possible, couldn't resist after the slo mo of chainsawing. i was going to ask about mud but figured it wasn't as important to avoid mud with blades as it is with chainsaws but still need to do. will start using my skidding cone again.

Some of the fancier Bandsaws have a debarker that run in front of the Band to save bandwear. Mud/grit drasticly reduces the bands life.

 

If Im milling a solid 08:00-17:00 day I'll go through 3 blades of I dont hit any metal. Two Blades on a normal day. If finish is important I'll change them earlier but if its fence posts, rails and boards I find it not so critical to change earlier.

 

With the Ripper blades you can push the Mill that wee bit extra and the blade handles it no bother, just go by the engine note and ease off if if its starts to struggle. Obviously maxing out with Hardwood will need a slower feed than softwood. 

[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

Some of the fancier Bandsaws have a debarker that run in front of the Band to save bandwear. Mud/grit drasticly reduces the bands life.

I used to use a small hatchet to knock the bark off the line of cut with the woodmizer.

 

A long time ago I went on a visit to a softwood sawing line and the chipper-canter ran a whole shift without changing blades on the new line because the wood was all debarked and sorted, previously they had to change bandsaw blades three times in the shift. The cost benefit was not in saving saw sharpening but in not having three losses of downtime as the bands were changed plus having bark to sell.