NoodleBender
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- Nov 22, 2016
A Very long time lurker, learning something new every day here.
I have a new Son-in-Law project we are about to embark on, a home built band saw Lumber mill to compliment my daughter and his Fire Mitigation and tree felling business. After this summers wildfires in Colorado, they will have abundant wood to cut up.
Home built is slightly misleading as my shop retired Index mill and Clausing lathe are now in the garage, I have 9000#s of 8020 outside the shop and an old industrial Columbia horizontal band saw will provide many of the parts needed, after it cuts up the fabrication steel needed.
Pre Christmas eve dinner discussion, we had an idea of building the lumber mill and powering it all by the high flow remote hydraulics from his Cat skid steer 299D2.
The overall design and fabrication is something I am sure I can handle (race car designer and builder) but the hydraulics spec'ing and design.... Completely lost aside from basic functions.
The CAT spec's show 32 gal/min, 44 HP at 3335 PSI... and I know we want 4800 ft/min band speed on 16" blade wheels. We would like to god direct drive to the belt drive pully and also want to do a variable speed hydraulic motor to drive the whole carriage down the tracks. I suspect we have enough flow to do both the band and carriage at the same time.... but suspect isnt good enough at this point.
We are surfing the home build lumber mill forums to try to figure out what shaft HP at the band drive, is best. Most all those folks are running 14 HP gas engines through jack shafts....
Love to hear folks ideas on the proposed project
Dave
I have a new Son-in-Law project we are about to embark on, a home built band saw Lumber mill to compliment my daughter and his Fire Mitigation and tree felling business. After this summers wildfires in Colorado, they will have abundant wood to cut up.
Home built is slightly misleading as my shop retired Index mill and Clausing lathe are now in the garage, I have 9000#s of 8020 outside the shop and an old industrial Columbia horizontal band saw will provide many of the parts needed, after it cuts up the fabrication steel needed.
Pre Christmas eve dinner discussion, we had an idea of building the lumber mill and powering it all by the high flow remote hydraulics from his Cat skid steer 299D2.
The overall design and fabrication is something I am sure I can handle (race car designer and builder) but the hydraulics spec'ing and design.... Completely lost aside from basic functions.
The CAT spec's show 32 gal/min, 44 HP at 3335 PSI... and I know we want 4800 ft/min band speed on 16" blade wheels. We would like to god direct drive to the belt drive pully and also want to do a variable speed hydraulic motor to drive the whole carriage down the tracks. I suspect we have enough flow to do both the band and carriage at the same time.... but suspect isnt good enough at this point.
We are surfing the home build lumber mill forums to try to figure out what shaft HP at the band drive, is best. Most all those folks are running 14 HP gas engines through jack shafts....
Love to hear folks ideas on the proposed project
Dave