Twin blade Saw bench

[Nat]

Can anyone tell me the proper name for one of these?

It's for making posts apparently.

 

Google has been no help

 

Thanks, Nat

 

[openspaceman]

Can anyone tell me the proper name for one of these?

It's for making posts apparently.

 

Google has been no help

 

Thanks, Nat

 

 

Double slabber

 

A gang of saws with circular saws top and bottom is a multirip

[Nat]

Many thanks, I can get on and sell the damn thing now I know what it's called!

[richy_B]

With the blades so close together - What would you use that for? I've seen multi blade Posch bench saws set at 25cm for chopping billets.

[Stubby]

With the blades so close together - What would you use that for? I've seen multi blade Posch bench saws set at 25cm for chopping billets.

 

Posts ?

[openspaceman]

With the blades so close together - What would you use that for? I've seen multi blade Posch bench saws set at 25cm for chopping billets.

 

It's for producing a cant with two flat sides which can then be resawn by multiple passes through another saw, typically to produce pallet boards or slats from bars. The kerf was of little consequence as it was in the waste slab. The resaw would often be a bandsaw for its thinner kerf.

 

As things got more sophisticated and there was a demand for white chip they were superseded by machines that removed the bark and then chipped the slab to prodice a cant with no slab.

 

Later still big mills had chipper canters that produced a profiled cant in order to recover an extra two outer boards per cant.