Thread: Old circular sawmill resurrection

Weisyboy would probably be able to help ya out with some info and ideas - maybe PM him?

Got any pictures?

A lot of Canadian saws had overhead saws.

Where are you located?

Hi,

We are located at Guyra in Northern NSW.

Some pics attached.
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Cheers
Daniel

Wondering what species you will be milling once you get it operational..Cheers MM

We will be milling hardwood. We have a good supply of stringy bark.

The saw was previously used for stringy bark as well. We have a second bench saw for the billets of the breaking down saw.

Cheers
Daniel

Ok so it was all timber?

So basically you have shaft, set of wheels for carriage and saw and the rest is timber?

What is the smallest, biggest and average log you are hoping to process?

Hi

Yes you are correct we have shaft, saw, guides, carriage and tracks. We are replacing the timber with steel and want to set it properly.

We aim is to process logs with an average diameter of about 600mm up to about that 700mm mark. The main aim is to break them down to put the billets them over our bench mill below for final sawing.

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As you could imagine pushing larger logs through this mill is hard work.

Cheers
Daniel

the biggetst problem wiht the overhead canadian is it relies on the weight of the log to hold itself down, this is ok on longs over 600mm but smaller is dangerous,

that bench should have power rollers?

if not then that needs to be done it wil make life easy.

spotting troley type saw is best just to bust down logs, i will post some pics.

how is the log fed threw the canadian?

im about to start the same build but on an trolley saw but basicly the same.

Thanks for the info, would love to see some pics.

I have recently changed the rollers and now we can power them - sounds like we should do this.

I just done a google for "spotting trolley" but it did not reveal anything interesting. Is there another name I should be using?

The canadian had a hand which set up to pull the carriage through which I still have. I was planning on converting it to a power which.

I have also googled to find info on Canadian saws many time before but never seem to find any examples of single overhead saws. Are they called any other names?

Thanks for your help
Daniel

having trouble posting

been using a similar setup for years they work well you can spike one side of the log to the trolley to stabilise itif you want