Our 75 HP Gang RIP Saw Broke Down

I gotta’ get me one of those …. ;-)

Sorry for the meltdown. Glad (it sounds like) you’re back up and running, though !

-- -- Neil

Cool! I had no idea such devices existed, and now I want one. Even though that’d rip pretty much all the cabinet door frames I could possibly ever see myself wanting for the rest of my life in about 45 minutes.

-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke

Could have been a hellufuwreck. Glad nothing else got damaged in the process glad to see you are back up and running…...................................Schloemoe

-- schloemoe, Oregon , http://www. woodrehab.blogspot.com

Glad you got it back up and running.

Big machines, big headaches! Glad you found a solution to this one.

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

Hope the operator that forgot to tighten the arbor assembly was helping you take it apart! :)

-- -Director of slipshod craftsmanship and attention deficit woodworking

Hey, stuff happens; always has always will. I love machines but they will always be a pain in the butt every now and then.

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

Sorry about your troubles. Thanks for posting the pics though, very interesting.

This machine scares the crap out me! I guess I shouldn’t get so nervous setting up my 8” dado stack.

-- Blair

Helluva Machine 100 million lineal feet Is no Joke, That’s a lot of lumber.
How often do you have to change blades?
Great post Thank you for posting :)

-- Proverbs Ch:3 vs 5,6,7 Trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not unto your own understanding but in all your ways aknowledge him and he shall direct your path elmerthomas81@neo.rr.com

Man, think of the dado that could cut.

Randy

-- That was not wormy wood when I started working on it.

waow that is one serius M…...F…... of a maschine
using a forklift to take this apart how cool can it bee

sorry for your downtime, glad no one was haert
thank´s for leting us see some haevy stoff from the production line, very interressting

Dennis

Thanks, fellas. It rips whatever you want. The arbor is 24 inches long so you can put saw blades along it wherever you want. They are spaced out with a combination of spacers. Of course it is rare to send a board through it that is 24 inches wide. Generally rough hardwood lumber comes in random width and so some might be less tan 6in some maybe 7-8 inches some 9-12, whatever. Most probably average around 7 or 8 inches. So what you do is set up a series of patterns along the 24 inch arbor. At one spot you might have 2 2inch and 1 1in, and then maybe 2 2-1/2 inch and a 3 inch – whatever you want. You have some laser beams that make a red line on the table of the rip saw – one laser for each saw – these show the operator where each saw blade is. So the operator can send the board through the saw at the right pace depending on it’s width so that you minimize waste. The idea is for your board to come out yielding a small thin piece of waste on either edge.

So far as the 100 million feet – That is the number of linear feet of hardwood boards that we estimate has been fed into the saw since we have had the saw. Since the boards would generally average around 7-8 inches wide the outfeed would be somewhat less that 100 million. And of course you have the waste. 75% has probably been poplar and the rest oak, cherry, mahogany, walnut, sapele, ash etc. We do run some pine, white pine, some ceadar, some cypress, a lot of basswood, ect. Most of the lumber come from places like North Caralina, the Virginias, Pennsylvania etc.

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

If you need a spare, I have one for sale—-Cheap! It’s old, but has been rebuilt.

-- She thought I hung the moon--now she just thinks I did it wrong