Building rollers for sawmill toe-board

[mrtwister]

Thank you for all your ideas and input....the pipe I plan to use is 2" schedule 40...wall thickness is .15" (or 5/32") thick so i'm confident it will withstand the stress and weight of the logs...I like the Cook's Saw design Barry 1....I may copy certain elements of that one. The flange bearings seem like a good option in this case as well....they are presently on sale at the local Princess Auto for $7.99 apiece...I have 1" round bar so that will be good for the shaft...I also have plenty of washers so I can use them at the pipe ends for shaft support...I'll double-up on them to get the 1/4" thickness...cheers to all..:drink:......twister

 

[BHD]

buy some premade rollers off of Ebay and adapt then to your needs,

 

[Mysfyt]

Check McMaster Carr for conveyor rollers. They have some heavy duty ones with .21" wall thickness.

 

[Oldpath05]

I've always found to make something round to fit inside something round so it can go around, is hard to do with out lathe work, but you can get close by what your doing with some washers and a 3/4-1" shaft in the middle and flange bearings sounds good to me. The 5/32 pipe IMO is plenty for lifting a 1000 lb log at one end, it's like a static load vs. a dropping load, might not be the right terminology but dropping 1000 lbs on something will most likely cause damage.

Anyhow if you get the roller made, don't forget the show and tell with pics.

 

[Billrog]

All you need for a roller is a piece of pipe with a pin out of each end to stick in a hole on your side member mines been working for 15 years and I can use it to help roll a log to position it regardless of size easy.

I implemented this hydraulic out board motor lift to raise or lower instead of a jack.

 

[Ivan49]

I can tell you what I used on my Wood Mizer but I don't know where you can get them anymore. When I built the ones on mine I used the rollers off a steady rest for n American lathe. They use to change them out as a set when one went bad and the maint guys would save the good ones for me. These were usually 2.5 to 3 inch dia and each was 2 inches wide or wider. These cane off the lathes that would turn a 16 to 20 inch dia piece of steel 30 to 40 foot long.

 

[Oldpath05]

"All you need for a roller is a piece of pipe with a pin out of each end to stick in a hole on your side member"
Your right, bearings are only needed for high speed and high pressure, don't think the log on the mill is going 50 mph...........