What brand or model of portable bandsaw have I missed?

[agg221]

Have you found any companies making a bandsaw equivalent of the Alaskan chainsaw mill? ...ie, working on the same principles/ being easily portable, etc

 

There is one - the Ripsaw. Portable means relatively small, but it has a 14" width x 9" depth so will cope with most things. It can be temperamental but when it's in a good mood it flies.

 

I have one bolted to an 044 and it will rip oak boards out at speed. The last big oak that Burrell and I did I was taking quartersawn boards about 10" average width x 10' length off faster than the two people could carry them off and stack them 30ft away!

 

Good luck trying to persuade the makers to ship you one though.

 

Alec

[SteveA]

There is one - the Ripsaw. Portable means relatively small, but it has a 14" width x 9" depth so will cope with most things. It can be temperamental but when it's in a good mood it flies.

 

I have one bolted to an 044 and it will rip oak boards out at speed. The last big oak that Burrell and I did I was taking quartersawn boards about 10" average width x 10' length off faster than the two people could carry them off and stack them 30ft away!

 

Good luck trying to persuade the makers to ship you one though.

 

Alec

 

Exactly, perfect, just what I want!! .....waddya mean I can't buy one here in the UK?????

This deserves a thread of it's own! (Sorry difflock, i will stop hijacking your thread now).

[difflock]

I say old boy

hijack away

All grist to the Mill

boom-boom!

[SteveA]

I say old boy

hijack away

All grist to the Mill

boom-boom!

 

Haha! Thanks mate. I've started a new thread for the Ripsaw thingy.... you are welcome to hijack it!

[Big J]

I don't know about how much better all steel band wheels are, but the Logmaster runs on crowned 30" wheels and there is no vibration from it. Easier to keep clean too - you would have to clean the belts every time you changed the band on the WM. The Logmaster has a brass scraper that does it for you.

 

Jonathan

[difflock]

Ah!!

Belated Enlightenment doth finally dawn.

Now I am really really pissed I done the gentlemanly thing and avoided contacting Ed at Logmaster direct about yon hi-spec traded in LM15 with the 30" band wheels/24' bed etc.

Dammn an blast!!

[youcallthatbig]

autotrek run on crowned stainless belts on cast alloy wheels, cleaned by bronze/brass scrapers, rubber coverings to band wheels in my mind equate to "toy town" machine with the rubber cancelling out machining in accuracy of components......cheap and nasty springs to mind......

[difflock]

I cannot then, fathom how most of the firms producing bandsawmill, insist on using "rubber bands", other than the marginal additional machining costs involving in crowning the band-wheels.

But regardless of this cost saving, surely the buyers cannot all be oblivious to the benefits of vibration free sawing, since there are at least a few Cookssaw and LogMaster mills out there working.

WoodMizer got a lot to answer for, apparently!

marcus

[youcallthatbig]

Difflock, whilst looking at a band sharpening machine (German) website ,I came across this list as "European "makers of mobile bandsaws......

Hartenberger

Holzhäuer

Logosol

Mebor

Pezzolato

Resch&3

SERRA

Wood-Mizer

Zenz / Wimmer

 

sorry but CBA to provide links, but Uncle Google will, some of which may be of interest . Others are just mobile band saw pornography.....have fun.

Tim

[difflock]

You low So-an-so!.

Now I have to start all over again

Though I suspect the prices will rule most of the Euro made mills out.

cheers

Marcus