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1st June 2009, 04:41 PM #1what finer points?
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motor cycle mill?
G'day all
I was just thinking why hasn't any one used a motor bike frame and swing arm to make a static mill? if you replace the shock with a hydraulic ram or some sort of adjuster and sick a Lucas mill blade where the wheel was...
I think the rpm's are about right and bingo, whether it's mounted on a sliding carriage or the log moves under it i'm not sure but am I missing something huge here? it could even have a brake...
whats more a 5 or 6 speed saw mill with a clutch, brake and 60 odd horsepower, even shaft drive if it's an bmw to keep the dust out of the driveline.
just thinking out loud
Mattcocaine would have been a cheaper addiction
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1st June 2009, 05:13 PM #2
spinning the blade is only part of it.
could work, after all the yanks made a v8 chainsaw
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1st June 2009, 06:20 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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i have given it some thought for a few years on and off, but for a logosol style chainsaw mill.
to use a bike like a lucas will not be easy because you can only cut in one plane , it would be a tad complicated to make the blade swing 90degrees for the other plane.
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1st June 2009, 06:46 PM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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interesting idea where do you put the helmet??
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1st June 2009, 06:48 PM #5
I remember when I was a boy, my Dad and a few of his mates talking about an old guy (older than them) who lived up in the hills behind my hometown, he bought a brand new Harley davidson motorbike, set it up as a saw.
I never saw it, but they reckon it was pretty good back then.
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1st June 2009, 06:52 PM #6GOLD MEMBER
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hang on instead of having the bike standing upright you have it mounted at 45 degree angle to the left like you are going round a left hand bend , make your cut then flip it via a lever to make a 45 degree right hand bend and i believe you have taken out a wedge that is 90 degrees , or a 90 degree V notch on top of the log
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1st June 2009, 06:53 PM #7what finer points?
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so the idea has legs but as as texx pointed out the angle swapping is the hard part unless the bike in question was a sport bike with a dry sum and fuel injection... or the bike swing arm tensioned a bandsaw...
cocaine would have been a cheaper addiction
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1st June 2009, 08:15 PM #8
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1st June 2009, 11:26 PM #9
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2nd June 2009, 10:15 PM #10
Similar applications have been done. IIRC, with a Model T Ford (or such) mounted on blocks, and a drive belt wrapped around one of the wheel rims, to power remote machinery. At a centre distance of about 5 or 6 times the rim diameter, the belt can make a 90-degree twist, if needed by the remote machinery. This was all before OS&H, of course, but safeguards shouldn't be too difficult to devise. At a slow enough "belt" speed, almost anything could be used for a drive belt - even a rope with knots.
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2nd June 2009, 10:37 PM #11
there are plans for a motorbaike driven bandsaw mill around.
www.carlweiss.com.au
Mobile Sawmilling & Logging Service
8" & 10" Lucas Mills, bobcat, 4wd tractor, 12 ton dozer, stihl saws.
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3rd June 2009, 08:47 AM #12Deceased
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g'day Matt ,great idea ride it to work ,stick it in the saw ride it all day ,ride it home
Lloyd.
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