shaving mill

[tboomz]

hi all,

new member here.

have seen how hay balers can be repurposed as wood splitters. But am wondering if anyone has ever tried to remake one into a shaving mill?

I've not seen the undersides of these mills. Do they use cutting heads like on shop planers or single blades a la hand planes?

 

[Bikewanderer]

hi all,

new member here.

have seen how hay balers can be repurposed as wood splitters. But am wondering if anyone has ever tried to remake one into a shaving mill?

I've not seen the undersides of these mills. Do they use cutting heads like on shop planers or single blades a la hand planes?

I'm not familiar with the term shaving mill. What are you doing with it?

 

[Reg]

I'm fairly sure they use fixed blades.
That is to say, fixed blades are the only way I can figure they can get the long curly shavings.

Horse owners seem to LIKE the long curly shavings, although from an absorbancy POV they are probably much worse than sawdust.
Long and curly is a "product attribute" that can be marketed.

The customer being always right, , , sell 'em whatever they'll pay for (-:

Ahh, just remembered; search for Salsco, they're the local (New England) manufacturer.

Look at the power options on their SMALLEST machine.
I know little to nothing about hay balers, but doubt that they are built to absorb the sort of pushing and shoving that a machine using an 86 HP diesel would experience.
IOW not in the same (power) league.

BICBW.

 

[beenthere]

:welcome:
tboomz
The shaving mills that have been demo'd at the recent logging shows have been very similar to a jointer (or planer) head with rotating blades.

The wood is loaded in a sliding magazine (box) that is powered back and forth over the rotating head. On some, the shaving planer head moves back and forth.

I am thinking you are thinking of using the baler plunger to power the magazine back and forth over the head. Might work.

No comment on the long curly shavings. :confused3:

Here is a vid link to one of many shaving mills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpJkH-K8dm8&feature=player_embedded

 

[Reg]

Nope, that CMS thing is little more than a planer - aka a chip maker.
Shavings mills produce VERY LOOoooooNG "Shavings", not chips.

 

[BHD]

two comanys that show there heads,

Cutter Head | Industrial Machinery | Shaving Mills | Industrial Machinery & Engineering Co.

Wood Shaving Mill & Cutterheads

 

[beenthere]

Nope, that CMS thing is little more than a planer - aka a chip maker.
Shavings mills produce VERY LOOoooooNG "Shavings", not chips.

Yes, like planer shavings. Those are shavings. It is becoming a big industry, with bio fuels in the possible future.

Not sure what/where you get the Loooong shavings idea from. There is excelsior that are Loooonng strips/curls of wood, but very special machines to make it. Also, there are flake mills for making flakeboard. And mills that make strands of wood fibers.

Reg
Pls. put up some pics or links to what you are referring to here.

 

[Reg]

Yes, like planer shavings. Those are shavings. It is becoming a big industry, with bio fuels in the possible future.

Not sure what/where you get the Loooong shavings idea from. There is excelsior that are Loooonng strips/curls of wood, but very special machines to make it. Also, there are flake mills for making flakeboard. And mills that make strands of wood fibers.

Reg
Pls. put up some pics or links to what you are referring to here.

OK, if I have a camera with me the next time I am at a barn that uses long curly shavings I'll take a pic or two of the floor.
I usually DELIBERATELY leave my cell phone in the truck when handling horses, but I can probably find a clean empty stall somewhere and not spook a horse with camera flash (-:

 

[sawdust_maker]

Not sure what/where you get the Loooong shavings idea from. There is excelsior that are Loooonng strips/curls of wood, but very special machines to make it.

As a wood turner, whenever I turn a bowl from green wood, I can generate a large pile of curly long shavings quickly. And this with only a 1 horse motor to turn the wood.

John

 

[beenthere]

Hey guys, I don't deny that one can make curls and long strands of wood fiber. As said, a hand plane used along the grain will turn them out, as will a lathe when turning wood, as will special wood block slicers that slice along the grain of wood (they use these curls in hollow-core doors to separate the two plywood faces). There are also some wood chunkers that will have varying size screens, like a hammermill to knock wood apart and break it down into different size pieces.

I'm only saying the commercial shavings are being produced largely by shaving machines being marketed that have a head with knives very similar to a jointer head or a planer head. YouTube has vids of many of these machines. And I think, but don't know, that is what the OP is asking about.