What is it?

[Only the Tony]

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Lol!

Or.......are you serious?......

Actually serious on this one.

 

[EFSM]

Actually serious on this one.

Were there swing sets in the 1700’s?

 

[Junk Meister]

Swing set chains. Carriage bolts are for the seats.

Ten Points to You.
Material is too small of diameter for "CLOD BUSTERS" and the seat brackets finish out the description.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Well, look at that....

 

[Sawdust Man]

An interesting piece.

 

[Only the Tony]

An interesting piece.

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Going to use it for your mill?

 

[Sawdust Man]

Going to use it for your mill?

Nope, going to try and sell it.

 

[singinwoodwackr]

An interesting piece.

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Bandsaw blade welder, nice

 

[Junk Meister]

Well, look at that....

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Yup That SWING SET needs RED TAGGED until that Bent Leg is replaced.

 

[Junk Meister]

Nope, going to try and sell it.

Good Name brand Going to take a lot of welds to absorb the investment.

 

[legdelimber]

Blade welder. The first seriously large company that I ever worked for had blade welders mounted on the bigger (vertical) saws.
No matter what dept you were in, one of your trial/probation period things was making and repairing a couple of blades.
Was interesting how most folks could get a weld together. But the importance of getting the blade joint straight in the clamps seemed to escape many of them.
Cutting a tight radius with your blade usually thinned the herd though. Snap!
By now, I'd expect lasers and water jets have pushed those band saws into the catch-all building or maybe a toolmakers building.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Blade welder. The first seriously large company that I ever worked for had blade welders mounted on the bigger (vertical) saws.
No matter what dept you were in, one of your trial/probation period things was making and repairing a couple of blades.
Was interesting how most folks could get a weld together. But the importance of getting the blade joint straight in the clamps seemed to escape many of them.
Cutting a tight radius with your blade usually thinned the herd though. Snap!
By now, I'd expect lasers and water jets have pushed those band saws into the catch-all building or maybe a toolmakers building.

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

I've never attempted to weld a blade, just buy em in bulk for the sawmill.


Like so......

 

[legdelimber]

I used to do a little work for a guy who was in Architectural salvage. Lots of re-sawn lumber there.
Probably 25 years ago, I got to met an older gent who had a really nice band mill setup. He reground and reset tooth angles, etc. Very nice workshop.
The ,manual type, tooth grinder was not much different from using saw chain grinder.
He had jigs for setting the tooth angles, all manual equipment.
Similar to sharpening a chain. Slide through clamping jig but using a dial indicator to gauge the tooth offsets as you pressed them sideways with a hand lever.
A torch head station setup to heat treat blade teeth.

One of the biggest pains with re-claimed wood was the ceramic wiring tubes broken off in deep holes. Murder on a band blade to hit 'em.
18" thick beams can hide some trash in the middle and unfortunately no practical way to detect them like we did for metal. Just have to probe out every hole you could find. Drilling hammer and a steel rod. Keep the tip of the rod dressed square or it could skip past smaller bits.
I had strait shank punches for smaller bolt drive outs. Actually kept a slight dimple ground into the tips of those to keep them on the bolts.