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Offline sgschwend

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Re: M14 Foley Belsaw Sawmill
« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2009, 10:09:43 am »
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Re: M14 Foley Belsaw Sawmill
« Reply #21 on: January 04, 2009, 09:47:38 pm »
Bandmiller                I am from Port Allegany Pennslyvania. I think I might have come up with a pto plan. I will hook the pto shaft from tractor to the  blade shaft then I will flip my blade around and saw the lumber towards me instead of away from me. then i will take the twist out of the flat belt that runs from blade shaft and drives the carraige. hopefully someday i can switch that belt out to v-belts. the tag on the say its a   belsaw  A-16    thanks again for any info
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Re: M14 Foley Belsaw Sawmill
« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2009, 06:05:27 am »
Your right Chris,its kinda hard to troubleshoot and make comments without seeing the mill.Long belts and pulleys on a belsaw make me nervous.The later belsaws used a 1 3/4" arbor shaft,with the PTO shaft its pure torque,with a long belt considerable side force on the arbor.As the cutting forces change it tends to flex the arbor and makes it harder to have a steady saw.Chris would a rt. hand mill here be a left hand mill down under[big poop eating grin]Frank C.
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Re: M14 Foley Belsaw Sawmill
« Reply #23 on: January 06, 2009, 06:09:12 am »
T-jack,we have to think this out ,putting the blade on backwards and feeding the wrong way will cause many problems one being the hand your blade is hammered for.Every belsaw I've seen is a right hand mill,you stand with your hand on the feed lever,log goes by on your right.If you look at the running blade from your side of the mill it will be turning clockwise,teeth cutting from the top of the log down.If you go around the outher side of the mill where the tractor will be and look at the end of the arbor shaft it will have to turn counter clockwise.If you are driving the mill from the tractors splined pto shaft it will be turning the right way.If your using the belt pulley on the tractor and belts to run it, will depend which way the tractor is faceing and if the belt is crossed.Once you have the saw turning the right direction then figure what you need to do to get the feed right.What tractor are you using?If you could possibly show us some pictures.Hang in there.Frank C.
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Re: M14 Foley Belsaw Sawmill
« Reply #24 on: January 06, 2009, 07:10:55 am »
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Your rite Frank  it is abit hard mate  ;)  i got pics to work with now  ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D shes a fine looking oldgirl  ;)  in great condition for her age too   ;D Full steel frame and its even towable Look out bandmill boys shes Portable  ;) :D ;D
Looks like itll be fine for a strait convert as a right hander it was settup for a flatbelt drive Tonys just got to shift  the main power drive belt from the mandrel to the  feedworks from being a out board drive accross about 6" to being closer to the mill frame to give him the room to fit the pto slipclutch on to the end of the mandrel by removing the large pto flatbelt drive pulley from the inside where it was mounted to support the strain closer to the main bearings ;)  ;D
hes driving it of an old oliver 35hp tractor which sould do the job reasonably well for milling his own timber   ;) ;D Id say More HorsePower  ::) but i think i liked Home Improvement Tooo Much  ;) Heidy  :o ;) Pam was better looking in those days   ;) :D ;D

I think his mill no#is 21235 so its a reasonably late model as when Dad and i where looking at the TK M16 mills before we got the lill band saw mill in 95 i think they where only up around the 26/27 000 mill mark But im not sure ??? :P

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Re: M14 Foley Belsaw Sawmill
« Reply #25 on: January 06, 2009, 07:29:15 am »
frank and chris thank you very much. I really dont know what I was thinking but you guys are both right!! I cant wait to hook that shaft up.     
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Re: M14 Foley Belsaw Sawmill
« Reply #26 on: January 06, 2009, 08:53:58 pm »
Gday Tony

No Worrys anytime Mate  ;) ;D Thats what the Forums here for  ;) ;D ;D 8) I see your 28 mate  im turning 28 in 7 weeks ;D 8)

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Re: M14 Foley Belsaw Sawmill
« Reply #27 on: January 06, 2009, 10:02:38 pm »
I think the biggest thing about changing from right to left is your main shaft. It is threaded for right hand operation. Turning opposite will make the nut spin off.  That could make for a very dangerous situation.
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Re: M14 Foley Belsaw Sawmill
« Reply #28 on: January 07, 2009, 07:28:49 am »
A yup,that would be one of the problems SJH,also an identity crisis you wouldn't know if you were the sawyer or the offbearer.Frank C.
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Re: M14 Foley Belsaw Sawmill
« Reply #29 on: January 07, 2009, 07:41:49 am »
Gday

 :D :D :D :D :D you wouldent know weather you where coming or going would you Frank ;) :D  :D  ;D
I worked for  Terry tight arse  ;) once upon a time and ran a B/down saw that had a cotter/split pin to hold the mandrel nut on tight  :o  he was tooo dang tight to spend the $1k to get a new one made up  :) :) ::) ::) it took about 3 times aslong to do the saw change and that was done 3 times aday  :) ::) I still got paid by the hour tho  ;) :D :D :D ;D

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