13-08-2013, 08:45 AM
Hi,
Thanks for the very interesting information Lawrence. Although I've been around big machinery for the last 50 years most of the machines have been in other industry than timber conversion.
It must have been an expensive job to keep having the bands resharpened after so few running hours; two bands a day; over a year this will really mount up. Obviously the cost of resharpening the bands is offset by the sheer amount of board feet which can be produced in such short time by each band.
I once watched a New Yankee Workshop episode where Norm was visiting I think a double glazing company making wooden window frames etc. The railroad brought the timber directly onto site and if my memory is correct this site processed 6 million board feet of timber per week; it was truly awesome to watch the computer aided saws in operation milling the stock to dimension; I wish I had copied this to disc.
This was many years ago so now I wonder what impact UPVc has had on this huge site?
Yesterday I received an email from Screwfix informing me of their "Deal of the day" this was a Titan 406mm Scroll Saw powered by an 85W motor. Reduced just for the day from £79.99 down to £54.99 a saving of £25. At first I thought what a bargain and felt tempted to buy one of these saws until I read the reviews which instantly put me off.
Last year I sold my top of the range expensive variable speed Hegner scroll saw; I seldom used the Hegner and never really made friends with it possibly because I'm used to much bigger machines but at £54.99 had the Titan received good reviews I think I would have bought one for occasional use?
Last year I spent six full weeks in our rear garden felling trees and cutting back hedges and bushes; in particular the laurels needed extensive cutting back. I shredded over 150 bags of material and used this as mulch around the garden. Yesterday I was attacking the weeds which had now grown to waist height; these are in the area vacated when I removed a double trunked big elderberry bush leaving the ground around totally bare. It's incredible just how quickly these weeds have populated the bare ground and I'm once again attacking the laurels which have put on a lot of growth. I wanted to get into the workshop but the bungalow and gardens keep throwing jobs at me. Today I need to clear the rubbish; it won't go through the shredder but I'm thinking of digging it in rather than run it to the tip.
Kind regards, Col.
Thanks for the very interesting information Lawrence. Although I've been around big machinery for the last 50 years most of the machines have been in other industry than timber conversion.
It must have been an expensive job to keep having the bands resharpened after so few running hours; two bands a day; over a year this will really mount up. Obviously the cost of resharpening the bands is offset by the sheer amount of board feet which can be produced in such short time by each band.
I once watched a New Yankee Workshop episode where Norm was visiting I think a double glazing company making wooden window frames etc. The railroad brought the timber directly onto site and if my memory is correct this site processed 6 million board feet of timber per week; it was truly awesome to watch the computer aided saws in operation milling the stock to dimension; I wish I had copied this to disc.
This was many years ago so now I wonder what impact UPVc has had on this huge site?
Yesterday I received an email from Screwfix informing me of their "Deal of the day" this was a Titan 406mm Scroll Saw powered by an 85W motor. Reduced just for the day from £79.99 down to £54.99 a saving of £25. At first I thought what a bargain and felt tempted to buy one of these saws until I read the reviews which instantly put me off.
Last year I sold my top of the range expensive variable speed Hegner scroll saw; I seldom used the Hegner and never really made friends with it possibly because I'm used to much bigger machines but at £54.99 had the Titan received good reviews I think I would have bought one for occasional use?
Last year I spent six full weeks in our rear garden felling trees and cutting back hedges and bushes; in particular the laurels needed extensive cutting back. I shredded over 150 bags of material and used this as mulch around the garden. Yesterday I was attacking the weeds which had now grown to waist height; these are in the area vacated when I removed a double trunked big elderberry bush leaving the ground around totally bare. It's incredible just how quickly these weeds have populated the bare ground and I'm once again attacking the laurels which have put on a lot of growth. I wanted to get into the workshop but the bungalow and gardens keep throwing jobs at me. Today I need to clear the rubbish; it won't go through the shredder but I'm thinking of digging it in rather than run it to the tip.
Kind regards, Col.
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