Circle mill question ....

[isassi]

You can find one on E-bay, I think what you are looking for is a Stewart Warner tachometer..has a range of like 1500 RPM or so. The tach I use is also help to the shaft end and tripped like a stop watch and rotates until the speed corelates, then stops. Supposed to be accurate within a few rpm, so the manufacturer says. 

[highpockets]

Kevjay did you get the photos of the mill? 

I don't know much about hammering blades but there is a company Smith Sawmill Service
Highway 59 South, Timpson, TX 75975.  Phone: (936) 254-3161.   I buy bandsaw blades from these folks. They seem to have things going on and are really nice to do business with.

[Sawyerfortyish]

jpgreen can't tell ya where mine came from it was given to me from a neighbor and is probably as old as I am.

[UNCLEBUCK]

I also use the cheap rubber tipped handheld tach . I use the tach for setting my old combines and any good machinery dealer should have one or find a farmer and borrow it for a few days .  A standard farm tractor runs 540 rpm on the pto shaft and thats wide open so if it is  farm tractor powered I would go like 500 rpm for a hammering so your governor will have a chance . Maybe do a dry run of your carriage at 500 rpm and see what your your carriage is doing for speed .  If you cant adjust your feed rate you should really do the math carefully for the blade you want to have hammered . I take the blade off anytime I put the handheld tach on but I just dont like being in close like that .

[TexasTimbers]

'pockets,

I haven't got them yet. I will attempt it today. Raining right now.
Even after I get them I may need help figuring out why I can't upload pictures anymore. i never did fully understand how I was successful at doing it in the past. I jsut kept clicking things and retrying and next thing I knew the camera and computer would cooperate and viola! I'd have pictures in folders and then I'd get them on xat.com That softawre it easy even for me but I haven't been able to get the pictures out ot my camera for quite a while now.
Anyway, I'll snap them today if it quits raining long enough and try to upload them.

[jerry-m]

Kevjay,

A few other saw shops that may be close to you;

Poole's Sawmill Service
Shreveport, La.
(318) 227-1695

I haven't used them yet but my neighbor has... They have a route service that will pick up and return...Just don't know how often they come by or how far they will come... They come to the Longview, Lake O Pines area...  They told me they would make an apointment to get me in and out the same day if I wanted to bring the saw in to them... My neighbor got good service from them on the route service, but he has an extra blade to keep from being down waiting on the blade to be returned...  I think he got his blade back in just 3 or 4 days...

Smith Sawmill Service
Timpson, Tx.
(936) 254-3161

I have used them... They got me in and out in about 45 minutes... The person that hammers the saw is only there on certain days so call first... I think I will use Poole next time I need my saw harmmered as they never asked me what rpm I was running my saw???


Pine Creek Saw Inc.
Rt 1 Box 477
Valliant Oka.  74764
(580) 933-7376

I have not used them and they were recomended by someone here on this Forum...

If you don't mind I would like to know what town you are close too here in Centeral East Texas???

Thanks,   Jerry

[TexasTimbers]

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for that information. I'm near Bonham which is NE of DFW halfway between Paris and Sherman.
I come to Winnsboro and Tyler frequently. I need to come to Longview one day to visit Satterwhite, and look over their timbers. I've talked to Don over the phone about purchasing kiln dried cut to order beams at a price which seems too low to be getting good structural stuff suitable for timber framing.
I don't want to buy them for my home because I insist on being bone-headed and using the free/cheaper stuff at my disposal but looking at it for future source possibly.
Have you been by there per chance to eye that stuff? Most folks think they deal in logs and log kits only. But they have timbers too. Don said they carry mostly decorative beam stock but in the lenghts I was asking about (only up to 20') that he thought they'd be suitable. Guess I need to put the look-see on 'em.

[jerry-m]

Kevjay,

Sattlerwhite had an ad in the paper a few months ago for single logs, etc... I didn't pay much attention to it through, sorry... 


Yeah, best to come look for yourself..

 They have a pretty large outfit here... Had a large banner like 15 ft by 3 ft  outside the plant looking for truck drivers a couple of week ago...