How many bands have you broke?

[hackberry jake]

I just broke my third band today. I'm sure some of you have lost count.

[Dave VH]

I broke the first band that was in my saw when i brought it home.  In the first 4 inches of log.  Had about a 6 inch piece fly better that 40ft away.
  so far that was the only one that i've broken (knock on wood)

[Dewey]

Ive  lost count  !!!!!

[Bibbyman]

Probably a couple hundred .... a year.

[hackberry jake]

Man bibby, that's a lot of sawing!

[medic]

#1.  First cut into a log, hit a thin piece of metal at just the right angle and sheared the band in two.
#2.  Tried to back out of a cut once.
#3.   Had a brand new blade break as soon as the teeth touched the edge of the log.  [However, seeing how high my 16 y/o could jump when part of the blade snaked off the mill made this one worth while  ]
scott

[cypresskayaksllc]

2. Both broke after I wore a flat spot on my guide wheel. A piece of debris got wedged between the wheel and a bar thats by the wheel.

[hershey]

all of them....

[bandmiller2]

When I was running the Mizer LT-70 we broke alot that was the mode of failure.My homebuilt bandmill I've never broke even one, they get sharpened many times and get to 1 1/4 from 1 1/2 and loose the tooth hardness,and start to wonder.Probibly less tension leads to their long life. Frank C.

[tcsmpsi]

Probably 20 or so.  Multitude of reasons.  Haven't broken any of the newest blades I've started using, and have pushed some of the long and hard, where I figured they would break just any moment.  Never had a piece of blade leave the covers, though.

[Magicman]

hershey stole my answer.   ;D   Every band will break because of the rearward stress and traveling around the bandwheels.  I had one to break in two places last week.  After I got it out I noticed another crack.  I just smiled because I know that I had gotten every bit of the "goody" out of it.

In all, I had 3 to break on last week's job, but to be fair about it, they were from a box of blades that had been pushed back and were not in my normal rotation.  They were from my original batch of 60 blades that I bought over 10 years ago.   

Virtually every box of 10 that I send back to ReSharp includes at least one broken band.

[Sawmill Man]

   25 years of custom sawing adds up to a lot broken bands. A customer was looking at a pile of broken bands one day and said he would change brands if he were me. I explained that he was looking at every brand that there was and that they all eventually break from metal fatigue unless they damaged by metal in their logs.

[T Welsh]

After 5 or 6 sharpenings they all will let go at some point. thats what I buy them for to get the maximum out of them,had one that lasted 9 resharenings a couple of weeks ago,thought to myself,this is on tough blade,then it let go about 5 cuts later.after you run enough,you will see a pattern develop and can almost know when its going to break. by the way I only use Woodmizer blades. Tim

[cutterboy]

  [However, seeing how high my 16 y/o could jump when part of the blade snaked off the mill made this one worth while  ]
scott

:D :D :D :D :D :D  I jumped pretty high the first time a blade broke on my mill. :D :D

[Al_Smith]

I really have no idea if it's true or not so I'll just throw it out here .They claim a rubber tired bandmill as most homebuilts are is less apt to break  blades .True fact or old wives tale ,have no idea  ???

[pineywoods]

Enough to make it worthwhile to haul them to the scrap yard  ;D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I really have no idea if it's true or not so I'll just throw it out here .They claim a rubber tired bandmill as most homebuilts are is less apt to break  blades .True fact or old wives tale ,have no idea  ???

Old wives tale.  :D :D :D

[terrifictimbersllc]

I really have no idea if it's true or not so I'll just throw it out here .They claim a rubber tired bandmill as most homebuilts are is less apt to break  blades .True fact or old wives tale ,have no idea  ???

Old wives tail.  :D :D :D

Tale.   this is the Forestry Forum.  >:(          :D

[bandmiller2]

Al,theirs some truth to it as rubber tired bandmills run larger diameter bandwheels,and homemade mills usally don't tighten the bands as much. Frank C.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I really have no idea if it's true or not so I'll just throw it out here .They claim a rubber tired bandmill as most homebuilts are is less apt to break  blades .True fact or old wives tale ,have no idea  ???

Old wives tail.  :D :D :D

Tale.   this is the Forestry Forum.  >:(          :D

Sorry, didn't mean to do that. I never cud spell. I changed it. 

[Bandmill Bandit]

All of them! :D

[Magicman]

There is an article in this month's Sawmill & Woodlot about blades.  Just click on the "Download PDF" below the article "Why Blade Saw Blades Break".  https://www.sawmillmag.com/app/home/index

I found it while doing a cruise through the Sponsor's Websites.   

[never finished]

 Quite a few. But I'll never forget the first one. It sent me and my two sons running. It even took me a while to build up the nerve to go shut off the mill. No one told me that might happen. Yep that was before I found this place. 

[kelLOGg]

I went through a rash of breakage 3 - 9 months ago. I think it was due to too much down pressure on the moveable guide (11/16") . Since I reset it back to 5/16" I have not broken one. I haven't counted the ones I have broken.
Bob

[Chuck White]

Since I started sawing I would have to say I have had 5 boxes of 15 blades each to break, totaling 75 blades.

I have to admit though, there were times I would hear the ssstt, ssstt, ssstt, and I'd stop the blade and find a crack and pull the blade, so that one wasn't really a break.