Thread: laidlaw bushmill

Interesting machine Peter. Did you say you were using a 3 1/2" wide blade? If that is the case it is much larger than most machines of this type. I hadn't previously heard of any wider than 2".

I can't see how the shuttle runs along the track. Is there another rail?

You refer to when you used to have a band mill. Does that mean it is a thing of the past? It looks as though it may have been a beast.

Regards
Paul

Many, many moons ago I operated a Woodmizer Mill cutting up mainly sheoak - Allocasuarina Frazeriana - which can be very hard in the bits that had been burnt and found that when we switched to a diamond sharpening system made the blades not only cut better but lasted longer before sharpening was required.

Mike

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Interesting machine Peter. Did you say you were using a 3 1/2" wide blade? If that is the case it is much larger than most machines of this type. I hadn't previously heard of any wider than 2".

I can't see how the shuttle runs along the track. Is there another rail?

You refer to when you used to have a band mill. Does that mean it is a thing of the past? It looks as though it may have been a beast.

Regards
Paul

Hi Paul,

I sold it 15 years ago, a pleasant bloke turned up and offered me cash for it. I had a few other ideas of things I wanted to do so took the money. It was also at the stage where I needed to buy a 4wd tractor and forks to keep feeding it....lots of money.

The 3 1/2'' blade is the same one used on a Stenner resaw, the kind you find in big joineries . A good machine overall. Blades are available up to probably 300mm wide ! A friend built a really excellent machine with a 125mm wide blade . It was a beauty .... but he went back to uni and I don't know where that machine is now.

There are V groove wheels running on angle inside the 2 channels on the sides of my build, it helped to keep them free of dust and chips.

This is the machine with the 125mm wide blade and 1500mm wide cut in hardwood.