Pneumatic tired mill Lube?

[shinnlinger]

Hi,

I have a share in a turner band mill which has trailer tires and has never been set up for blade lube.  It has made alot of timbers with no problems.

However, I ran into a woodmizer guy this winter and he insisted I would benefit a great deal from adding a lube system and my partner in the mill just went through several bands on a pitchy stick the other day so it got me thinking enough to ask about it here.

Would I benefit from a lube system?  I can't imagine one would be expensive to set up, but what are the pros and cons? and does anyone have any interesting homemade lubers they want to share?

I mill mostly white pine if that weighs into the equation.

Thanks.

[epiphoneprs]

I use an old lawn mower gas tank and some clear tubing. Straight off-road diesel. No cons. All pros.

[Fla._Deadheader]

If you use trailer tires to run the blade on, use water and a tiny bit of liquid soap. Just a couple drops in a gallon of water.

  Anything else will turn the tires to a slimy mess. Most mills use the back of v-belts to run the blade on, and diesel and more soap in the water will be fine, but, NOT on tires.

[WH_Conley]

Don't know anything about tires for bandwheels. White pine on My Wm is the nastiest wood that I have sawn as far as sap build up.