Now let’s see how you uncoil a new blade! Those can get you hurt quick time and in a hurry. I ran a horizontal metal cutting bandsaw about the size of that 170.
Hi Ladies, Coiling a dull blade is not hard to learn, Uncoiling a sharp bade takes a little more to not mess up the teeth or get cut. some would do the throw and hope for the best but that's a sure way to get hurt if it bounces back on you or land on those nice sharp teeth. You did a great job Emerald showing this step, Stay Safe wear those gloves...John
I don't use the flip. Stand the blade up in your hands with the teeth facing away from you and with your foot on the blade. With your hands force the teeth of the blade towards each other and it will pop right into the smaller coil. Nice mill, when does the roof come?
In a future video you could show bandsaw blade uncoiling and also bandsaw blade flipping for those who ended up with a blade with the teeth going the wrong way.
You learn this as soon as you buy a band saw, it's pretty cool but I wear gloves because I know how accidents happen and gloves absorb some pretty major mistakes. So after all these years I can still play my guitar, banjo and Ukelele just fine and no scars to story tell to grand children.. Glad you see the value in doing so.
Nice demo. I used to be a toolmaker at a furniture factory in a town about 25 miles south of you. When I welded bandsaw blades together from roll stock they were anywhere between 18 and 25 feet. It took me a while to learn how to fold them when I was trying to do it by someone else’s method. I learned not to fight the blade, and eventually found my own technic that allowed me to start the fold twisting in and toss them on the floor in away that they literally folded themselves.
Before they all had GPS, surveyors used 100 to 300 foot steel tapes to accurately measure distances. They were referred to a surveying chains. Those were coiled up with the same side always up, and then tied. When coiled they were then "thrown" in a process very similar to coiling your saw blades. I have a small bandsaw, and I would like to coil the spare blades. They come coiled when you buy a new one, so I will try following your directions. It's not quite the same as throwing a chain.
V-belts are coiled in the same way, but just not quite as springy and “bitey”. V-belts will coil into “3s” and “5s”, sometimes even more for longer ones.
Just last week, I removed the blade from our band saw, to show the boss, so he could order a new one. I struggled to coil it, as you're demonstrating. Thank you, Em, for this instruction :)
I don’t think that I am ever going to use that skill. Glad to see, though. I always like to see cute, good ways to do something. Gloves, yes. I love your new mill; easy to see why you got it. Things are going faster already.
The way I was taught, and I also do weekly at least, is to stand on the blade with both feet, teeth facing away, grasp the upper part of the circle with your hands about a foot apart, one hand coming in from the back, the other from the teeth side, then twist so as to form the loops as you lower them to the ground. I do this with steel cutting 1.25" x 14' blades which look smaller than the ones in the video. It seem to me like a more controlled way of doing it, and it keeps those teeth lower and away from your head. I also am wearing heavy leather welding gloves while doing this.
I remember doing it for the first time, other guys in the mill were watching and I had not ever done one before.. Yes, I did cut my hands and no it did not go like I thought because of the fear. Later it came easy and for a joke would do the same with my chain saw chains as it would just turn inside out and then no one could use my nice sharp blades.,.. they were too lazy to do their own and would take mine till I did this... real hard if chain is brand new
I had an Amish guy sharpen my blades for years until he moved away he could fold blades one handed , he showed me many times still not able to do it without getting cut. Ps he did not wear gloves
If you want to look at a good sight where they are sawing and edger are all being dune in sequence you are looking for. The sight is lindassawmill. But it is 3 people min. but very little lifting. This is fairly old but the set up is very simple.
The new mill leaves you folks out in the weather. I suspect that is just a temporary situation. Are there plans to find or construct some sort of shed or other weather protection? I have been wondering ever since the new mill was set iup.
Don't become to comfortable with coiling as that's when it will get you. Trust me I know first hand, one caught me in the neck once. Uncoiling can get you also, just stay focused on the job while doing either.
Hi girls, excellent demo of Emerald's coiling method, i would always be wary of the blade springing back and hitting my face. .......By the way girls, i assume you will get around to putting a roof of some description over your Mill?, that would make a great video......Take care all. 😘
That mill is crazy fast. What did you do with all the blades from the old mill. Stay safe and keep the great videos coming. Been laid up for weeks and have another 7 or 8 weeks before I can get back to splitting wood and fishing. Your videos help me pass the time
When you traded off your old sawmill were you able to trade in some of the older blades that still had some life left in them so the smaller size blades wouldn’t just sit around & collect dust ?
Since you have been running your new mill, it looks like there is a lot more sawdust being blown out. Just wondering what protection you take to not inhale all the sawdust?
Great stuff as usual. It's a real shame the new mill is out in the open. All that sawdust on the tracks and rails will get wet and gummy and start to jam up the machine. Are you planning to build a cover over it?
I've been coiling saw blades over 50 years, I do it one handed by foot on the bottom, hold the top with my hand, push down and twist it. Much safer than the method you're using as it's a controlled steady motion.
