please help me

I’ll take your first test sirloins! Lol…Seems to me that even a meat cutting saw needs a tiltable wheel for blade tracking adjustment. Maybe without too much trouble you can get some good roller bearing guides on it and be in business.

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haha yea sirloin it is, haha. it does have a tilt wheel adjustment up top for blade tracking udjustment im sorry i diddnt mension that. i think i might just restore it ha. what can i loose. it was only 50 bucks. the 2 tons of steel is worth more than that. ill post a picture in a bit.

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In my neck of the woods, you could restore and sell that. Lots of hunters doing their own butchering up here. Welcome back, btw.

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Fire up the barby and breakout the venison!! If you check you might be able to find a wood working table for that saw.

-- Thos. Angle

Mike you can borrow the “Wood Only” sign from Thos. Angle’s big green machine. 1 1/4 blade ought to be a dandy for resaw. Or for bookmatched pork chops.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

ha ha ha you guys are funny with the meat cutting jokes. all in all i disasembled it last night and found that all basic components are exactly like a wood band saw. only diference is blade RPM its really slow for that extra thick sirloin i guese, but with a change in the drive pullys she will be runnining quik enough for most cuts in wood. the size of this thing is massive its unbelievable how much it ways and every single part is CAST IRON or STELL. so ill replace pullys, tires, and blade. everything else is covered in what looked like grease but turned out to be animal fat. ha. ill clean that up and paint it and ill have a 2 ton, right side infeed, resawing band saw. ha. how about that gentelmen.

thanx for all your help and jokes. i apreciate it. nice to see you guys again and ill post a picture in a bit. PEACE

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I cut meat for over 20 years for a local supermarket chain. I haven’t done that in about 12 years and hadn’t had stiches in almost 13 years now…. I owned a meat cutting band saw long before I got a woodworking band saw.

It took me a while to get used to the blade facing the oppisite direction that I was used to. The reason most meat cutting bandsaws (they do make a few facing the other way) is because most meat cutting is done with a sliding table and the meat cutter standing perpendicular to the wheels and most people are right handed.

I don’t see why a meat saw would cut wood. Bones are a lot harder that wood.

That should have been “wouldn’t” cut wood. The only other issue I can see is that it would have a sliding table and it will not tilt for angle cuts.

Joe

well thanx joe. so you used to cut meat hu? what got you into woodworking?

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Mike Just remember that you have to get a different bandsaw blade. You need the teeth on the other side of the blade.

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o sh!t i didnt even think about that. or cant you turn it iside out? or wait flip it around, no?? no no it shouldnt matter. right?

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good point im still thinking

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You are right. Some people put blades on upside down, and you turn the blade inside out and it changes direction.

Good catch. LOL

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By the way have you ever seen blades with teeth on both sides.

They are usually used in very big bandsaw lumber mills. The wood can be cut going each direction in the mill.

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no i never heard that before. interesting tho. wouldnt the teeth on the back side of the blade eat away at blade guides and bearings?

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I have this neighbor (the hippie) who is a pro-carver and has used a 2 ton meat cutter for years. He likes it.

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Mike the blade is 6” or so wide so I assume that there are no back bearings. The blade must be held in a track around the wheels to keep it from moving off the wheels.

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I like Doug’s suggestion of doing the book matched pork chops. Never even thought of that… ;^D

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Tom, that’s essentially what a butterfly porkchop is with a thin section of flesh holding the bookmatch together. They fold it open and pound it flat.
Good luck, Mike it sounds like you’ll have a dandy of a machine there.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Bring it to the L.J. picnic. I’ll bring a cow.

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