PTO Saw bench advice

[Ashes_Firewood]

Just looking for a bit of advice on PTO drive circular saw benches.

 

I'm looking to get a saw bench with a rocking cradle for safety. I've used an old fashioned saw bench with minimal guarding before but that's as much experience as I have with saw benches so far.

 

From looking online I've narrowed it down to the Riko SCD 700 and the Ryetec Heavy Duty Contractor Saw. Both of these claim to have a 12" diameter cutting capacity and look to be well made from what I can tell. The Riko probably just edges it in having wheels to manoeuvre it around when not on the tractor plus a log length cut guide and last time I checked it was cheaper than the Ryetec.

 

Discounted other saws for not having as large a cutting capacity and/or being too expensive (Posch). But open to suggestions if someone knows of another that fits the bill that I haven't thought of.

 

Can anyone with experience with either of the above saws let me know what they think of them? I assume there isn't too much that can go wrong?

 

Thanks

[H Harrison]

Looking for one myself, looking forward to any comments

[Woodworks]

Looked at getting one a while back and narrowed it down to the same two options.

[shavey]

yes these two that are mentioned above are good sawbenches and also the ryetec takes a conveyer i think

 

here are two others BGU WK 700z classic and dolmar CS-7000Z

[swinny]

I have a sliding pto saw bench with all guards for sale. Not one of these old death traps!

[LoadhandlerUK]

We like our Binderberger TWS700Z

[Jimbob87]

We have a rytech saw with elavator on demo from mark and its brilliant realy good bit of kit used the riko saw benches and I think this is better. Good guy to deal with too. We have had a processor and a horizontal splitter of him and must say the after service has been great

 

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[Jimbob87]

The one we have at min is the saw bench with a verical splitter on side

 

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[combiunit]

Bought a rytec saw bench couple of months back seems to be a good saw .One problem i have come across is the emergency stop and can be seen as a H&S issue ,this as to be wired into the tractors pto system which is ok on modern tractors with electronic engage/disengage ,but seems usless on older tractors .This is what i was told on their stand at YAMS 2 weeks ago.

[Ashes_Firewood]

How do you wire it in and if you don't wire it in does the bench still work? Does the Riko have a similar emergency stop?

 

Only be me using it, don't have employees.