Flat belt attachments?

[CalG]

Or should I say "detachments"?

As a kid, on the farm we had a flat belt feed grinder. Corn in, chicken feed out.
I was young, but it took me all morning to position the farm all, get the belt twisted right, and get corn from the nearby crib enough to hill the dumper to please my grandmother.

The saw mill where I used to get logs milled to my needs had a pretty nice power feed planer of about 2 foot bed width that ran off a flat belt. Lots of chips doing that work.

Myself I had a wood working planer 2 foot bed width (most would call it a jointer, but the makers called a planer) It had a straight round shaft off the cutter head to take a flat belt, though I ever only powered it with an induction motor running V belts on that flat shaft).

Flat belt cord wood saws are frequently seen rotting in side yards here in Vermont.
Out in my homelands of the Dakotas, a flat belt driven threshing machine is often seen as a hill top adornment. (No rust out here)

Feed grinders, threshers,cord wood saws///

What have you seen and wondered about in the world of flat belt drives?

I ask, because I used the flat belt pulley on my Fordson to jog the engine while fitting the magneto earlier today. I have seen pictures of hi pressure oil pumps fitted to provide hydraulics to these old tractors. But this tractor has a tap on the 3 point lift if needed.

Curious .. It's an old timers conversation for sure....

 

[Jstpssng]

My father converted a front mounted cordwood saw from a Farmall to go onto the 3pth of the 8N. When he traded that for his first Kubota he bought a saw which ran off the 3pth. Before I can remember but I believe he also had a bolter mill which he ran off a "hit and miss" one lunger. He used to saw out pine boards to make boxes for the greenhouse.

 

[WranglerX]

Not exactly a farm implement.....This is a 5000lb stamp mill for crushing gold ore, it has two 8 inch flat belts powering it...

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^^^
A bit off topic, but why does your signature ask to bring back the "delete" button? That feature has been available for a while.

 

[ericm979]

Not exactly a farm implement.....This is a 5000lb stamp mill for crushing gold ore, it has two 8 inch flat belts powering it...


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Where is that located? I have seen a lot of ruined old stamp mills but not a working one.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I thought this one was interesting. A saw mill powered by a steam driven tractor via a flat belt. Saw it in operation at the Great Oregon Steam Up held at Powerland Heritage Park last July.

gg

 

[LouNY]

When I was young we had a belt driven cordwood saw setup on a WD Allis Chalmers with the saw at the front of the tractor on a drop down stand, it had a gravity return on the table.
It cut a lot of firewood in it's day. Many people didn't have a chainsaw back then and if they did it weighed 40 pounds and while it cut much better then a crosscut saw they were a pain to run and keep running. So most people would drop a tree and buck it up into manageable lengths and load them on a sleigh or wagon to haul out of the woods then cut them up latter with the buzz saw or cordwood saw. One heck of a project when putting up 10-12 cords of firewood a year in addition to regular work.
At the time I could trim out a tree much faster with an axe then a chainsaw could on anything smaller then 6".

 

[oldnslo]

My grandfather had a flat belt jack shaft in his blacksmith shop that ran several different tools like drill press, large grinder, blower for the forge, some type of drop hammer, etc.

He also had belt driven wooden shingle saw and wooden barrel stave saw. Unfortunately all this equipment was all lost when his shop burnt down.

 

[WranglerX]

Where is that located? I have seen a lot of ruined old stamp mills but not a working one.

THis one is a 5 - 1000lb Joshua Hendry Stamp mill located at the Mariposa Museum & History Center in Mariposa California (on highway 140 to Yosemite National Park) , there is also a 2 -1000lb stamp mill on same property.... Both mills are fully functional (but 5000lb mill is having bull wheel replaced).... Have had pleasure of working on both mills maintenance wise for many years.... It is believed that MM&HC is only place in California that actually has 2 working mills....

 

[WranglerX]

^^^^^^^
A bit off topic, but why does your signature ask to bring back the "delete" button? That feature has been available for a while.

Because at one time the Delete feature went a way.... And I wanted it back so it was a standing message to system operator I wanted it.... Well the Delete feature came back, but I never got around to removing message in sig line... I suppose I should edit it....