![]() With the regional Council running scared, Environment Waikato is now pushing for 15m either side of the stream and the environmental pressure group, 45m either side of streams. The company is offering to extend this out to 10m. The existing resource consent is for a 5-metre strip on either side of the streams. Much of the appeal is based on the riparian strips alongside streams. It appears a Coromandel-based pressure group is now preparing to appeal BML's application for renewal of it's resource consent to harvest trees within it's own 10,557ha of forests in the Coromandel. ![]() The NZ forestry industry was justifiably outraged when the decision was made in late July. The company decided with the current legislation that it had no grounds to appeal the court decision. Granted resource consents to the company were overturned by a local appeal to the Environment Court, mainly based on the perceived amenity values of a stream side piece of land. We reported several issues back on Blue Mountain Lumber's (BML) failed bid (reportedly costing the company NZ$1.5 million) to establish a NZ$30 million sawmill in the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. However, something caught my eye recently that caused me to question the New Zealand Government's real commitment to encouraging growth in the industry on this side of the Tasman. We have a wide range of readers from an increasingly wide cross section of industries within the Australasian forestry, wood products and paper sectors. I found instructions for sharpening it in The Woodwrights Companion, ISBN 0-8078-4095-5.As an editor to Offcuts I deliberately make few comments on some of the key issues that we collate and bring to you each week through this e-newsletter. My check for one has cleared and I'm waiting for it to arrive. I've been unable to find a supplier.Ĭ still has a few unhandled pitsaw blades. I'm very interested in purchasing a pit saw. If anyone is interested in making one of these saws, the plans are in Bob Moran's book, "Woodworking: The Right Technique" published by Rodale Press, page 282. The saw cut the butternut a lot faster than the walnut, though. Here is a closeup picture of the blade resawing a 4/4 butternut board. The piece was an 8/4 walnut crotch that I resawed into four boards. While it was partly exhibition and partly the way it was done, looked like it took a day to saw once through a 12' log. I have even watched 2 man pit sawing at colonial Williamsburg. How long did it take to saw that slab like that? At one time, maybe I'd consider trying my hand at it. Re: Hand frame saw with band sawmill blade fp-vt 12/6 I have a catalog from People Powered Saws (I think) that has them in it. Re: Hand frame saw with band sawmill blade Mike Shenton 12/6 Unless I read your post wrong, I can't imagine anyone using this kind of saw to lumber a log! But I've seen prints of old timers cutting veneer out of a log with one of these saws. The blade is a wood cutting blade 3 tpi, 1 1/4" wide x 4' long. Here is a picture of a frame resaw that I made to resaw crotches and boards that are too wide for my band saw. I worry about safety and performance issues. I hope you feel that I am negative about your idea. Why not contact WM and ask for their listing of custom sawyers? It would be cheaper to pay someone a couple times a year than to pay the bank every month. A frame saw makes a great boat anchor because of all the steel required to keep it from bending or moving. You also need a way to hold the log stationary as it enters the cut, is in the cut, and is leaving the cut. Remember that for each blade, you will need probably 50 hp. Being real honest, I do not think that you will find this to work very well. In your frame, you will need a very wide blade to keep it cutting straight, as you probably cannot get the tension on the blade that we would find in a commercial unit. Most commercial bands will not actually be flat, but have a curve in them, edge to edge, to assist in keeping them cutting flat as they spin. The old timers did not use the pit saw because of efficiency it's all they had.įrom Gene Wengert, forum technical advisor: I can not even imagine the time involved. For hand application, that would be like driving a nail in the log and trying to rip it out. The teeth on my WM are 7/8" tooth spacing. I think you are biting off a great big job. You might consider finding someone local with a band saw that does custom work - you could probably buy one there. and who sells individual cheap bands instead of a ten pack? Does anyone have suggestions as to the best blade width/size/etc. Something like an old pit saw, without spending $100 in an antique store for a rusty piece of crap. I was thinking about buying a band sawmill blade, cutting a three foot section, and stretching it in a rectangular wooden frame like an old frame saw. I would like to saw a few logs every once in a while on a serious budget, and am not afraid of hard work.
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