Posted by agonair on April 29, 2015 at 10:35:23 from (208.124.119.86):
In Reply to: sawmill posted by alderman on April 29, 2015 at 06:16:13:
Years ago, we had a Steam Show at Arcola, IL and they had an old Gaar Scott Sawmill. I ran my Oliver 88 on it several times. Here's what we learned. The drive pulley on the mill was set up diameter wise for a Steam Engine that had a large diameter flywheel. When we put the Oliver on, it had a smaller diameter pulley, thus it would run the blade faster than rated speed. We had an experienced sawyer running the mill. At faster speeds, the blade would vibrate, so I had to throttle back, then as the log would come into the saw, I would lean in on the throttle and give her all she had, then would back off when the blade was empty. As far as moving the saw dust, we used a drag chain off of a cornsheller that was attached to a shaft under the mill and attached to Briggs engine at the top. It worked very well.
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