resaw bandsaw (wood)

[Ton-up]

If you want a vertical bandsaw you can't do much better than a Stenner Eagle 36"

 

[Newlands]

Hello, I may have just been unlucky when I bought a 2" thick, 6" wide plank of walnut about 12 feet long. It looked perfect, no bow or twist. As they resawed it into two 7/8" planks I watched as it twisted and warped. My pristine and expensive lump of walnut was turned into 2 bananas.
I did use a 6" length sandwiched between birch plywood to make a bandsaw box (trinket box), a couple of months later it shattered the plywood.
When I asked other wood worriers, I got the Gallic shrug, "that happens sometimes".
Expensive firewood.

You’ve identified the problem that is going to occur time and again trying to resaw 2” thick planks that have been partially air dried. They are always drier on the outside than the inside, so bound to release a load of built-up stress when cut. Of course, the reason they are 2” thick is because a chain saw mill is a pain in the wotsit - very slow and too much waste when sawing thinner stuff.
The other important point is that a sawmill and a bandsaw are slightly different animals - on a normal bandsaw the workpiece is referenced on two adjacent faces, which need to be in contact with the table and the fence. On a mill that isn’t the case - the log or cant is held securely by dogs and either is passed through the blade on a carriage (eg a Stenner resaw) or the bandmill is rolled on a track through the log. Waney edge boards and irregular shaped logs are a pain to cut on a normal bandsaw - to do it properly you have to knock up some sort of jig to hold the log and guide it through the blade in a straight line - temporary battens screwed to the log for example.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

 

[julianf]

If you want a vertical bandsaw you can't do much better than a Stenner Eagle 36"

Again, that's well into the "build new workshop" territory.

And the "remortgage house to buy" range also.

But, yeah, they look like they do the job.


Again, I'm looking in the sort of same range as my wadkin AGS table saw... But I think I should probably accept it's not going to happen?

 

[gaz1]

Again, that's well into the "build new workshop" territory.

And the "remortgage house to buy" range also.

But, yeah, they look like they do the job.

Again, I'm looking in the sort of same range as my wadkin AGS table saw... But I think I should probably accept it's not going to happen?

shut up its always the same cant be done too expensive

or as this points out you can use both a table saw for 2 cuts and finish the inner with a wood saw or even a bandsaw or another type of saw

take a real good look at this video you can make a log mill from a small trailer and make it bigger for the old oak bams in factories

 

[julianf]

I "found" this earlier -

Now it's not really to my liking, but I showed someone else online and they said it was "beautiful" so maybe I'll give some of that a go for a test.

I'll look up what the max depth I can do with a 12" blade on my ags10 and then, as you say, finish off the web with a handsaw etc.

These planks are not that wide, I guess about about 8", so if I can get 4" cuts I might not even need the handsaw.