hardwood mill in Bolivia

Very cool, especially size of that Bandsaw blade!

-- Ryan

bandsaw blade is 27 feet and width is 7”. Cutting ipe you need to change the blade every two hours or so.

-- Marcos Villamontes, Santa Cruz, http://www.roquevalente.com

very impressive

what is happening on the long track
that holds the logs in picture #5
i see the sides are cut already
but how do they get back to the bandsaw
to cut the tops and bottoms

or is there other bandsaws for that further on

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

picture number 5 which is the long track is for cutting the correct width. First the bansaw for the slices from the log in any kind of width, then this long track for the widths (we cut 3”, 4” 5” and 6” wide) , step 3 is to cut the correct length and step 4 is to redimension if there are defects that can be cut out in the width. This is the entire proces of cutting. Later seperating different qualities, then exporting either directly or making deck (molding) or flooring (drying and molding)

-- Marcos Villamontes, Santa Cruz, http://www.roquevalente.com

dear patron (patron means ‘boss’ in Spanish by the way), I found a picture for a better understanding how this long track actually works:

-- Marcos Villamontes, Santa Cruz, http://www.roquevalente.com

si marcos
por eso lo uso

en mis trabajos
con varios latinos
todos me dicen ‘patron’

gracias por mas information
en esta ‘fabrica’

beunvenido a LJ’s !

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle