Sawmill

[Egon]

Looking good!

V belts = there are a lot v belt drive applications in use in industry that last for years.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Yes, I am aware of that, still in the process of searching.

One way to solve it would be a belt tensioner, but it would get too crowded/complicated up top.

 

[Egon]

Ahh, you have belt tension problems. Slipping belts do become useless quite quickly as they glaze over. At times dressing may help but that you will already know.

Any problems lubing the proposed chain?

 

[Lea]

Czechsonofagun
If you are eating belts up it may very well be a alignment problem. It doesn't take long to eat a belt, as far as going to sprocket and chain it doesn't lend itself to high speed as does belts and pulleys

 

[czechsonofagun]

Well, seems like I should have checked the speed limits fro chains first, dang I am way over the 800 f/minute upper limit for 40 chain. On the other hand, motorcycle chain go even faster.

I may have to look into a tensioner.

 

[czechsonofagun]

I guess I have to pee on the fence everytime. I did a test run with 40 chain and the centrifugal forces dried the oil out of the chain that it felt like a bony skeleton when I finally took it off.

Back to V-belt, time to build a tensioner.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Seems like all the little problems are resolved, time to make some serious lumber.

After the chain failure I went with real V-belt, it took only three trips to TSC to get the right size but it holds much better than the V-link.

For the tensioner I used a pulley from Subaru I had in my scrap pile.

It cuts straight as an arrow, one of the advantages of the I-beam.

I was cutting some eastern red cedar yesterday, but four logs of oak are waiting for the weekend session.

 

[Egon]

Good show! :dance1::cool2::thumbsup:

 

[czechsonofagun]

Milling pine log.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I started out with a CSM too, but I figured out real soon it was waaaay too much work/noise/running expense and hard on my body, so I spent a little more and got into a BSM...

Anyway, many years later, I'm still turning logs into lumber,

and very happy with my choice,

milling out flat lumber,

that's accurate with a thin kerf,

and I can easily mill lumber fast enough, that I can turn out some extra lumber to sell, and get paid back,

Milling logs has always been fun for me...

SR