I remember the old Continental, Red Seal and LeRoy engines on the Bucyrus churn drills hammering out wells around here. Good old edger and good old yall too. Thanks, Mark! God Bless!
Thanks! This is all new to me as I spent my career as a product engineer on imaging equipment finishing the last ten years in medical imaging (x-ray, ultrasound, cardio-cath, MRI, etc.).
Running a edger is work my dad's old edger which we still have, is simple the width gage is a series of hoes drilled in a PC of curved iron. Solid fence. 4" set blade and a 2nd slide blade... unknown manuf. But at least 80 years old.
I didn't quite understand the process and would've understood it better, had I been able to watch you set up the board using the ruler, make your adjustments on the machine and feed the wood into the saw.
Thanks Mark for the close-up look at the old Crosby edger. Looks like a very sturdy piece of equipment that has stood the test of time and has paid for itself many times over. Still does a beautiful job of edging boards and maintains very good accuracy. That guy tailing the edger looks familiar for some reason. I know that I have seen him somewhere before. Anyway, are you still planning on doing any Friday Eve videos or is that on hold for the summer? Thanks again for the quick look at the edger in operation!
Thanks for sharing. How about a simple drag chain like john uses on his mill on the fricknjeep channel. Into a hopper that could be dumped into sawdust bin with fork lift.
Thanks Mark. I retesting machine. So left side feed edges both sides of the board and right side feed edges only one side? Plus more firewood Have a good one. Hope weather doesn’t get to bad for ya this weekend.
Thanks Mark, I appreciate the view and explanation. Do you select board width solely on maximum potential width or another calculation. Great seeing this end of your business too. Wishing you, T.H.E. Eddie and your families a blessed week. Peace brother
OSHA requires that open pulleys, gears, belts, chains and drive shafts shall have protective guards installed and in place. You could get some big fines if they inspect the edger.
@@markgalicic7788 that is of little consequence if a person trips and falls into a open operating equipment and is seriously injured. Whether or not you are cover does not dismiss the common sense of their guidelines.
Cool video. Wouldn’t object to more like this showing small but still important aspects of running a sawmill operation. This gives a better idea of just how much of a log is lost to sawdust and edgings. Makes me sad.
I still don't understand how the fixed blade side knows where to to cut to clear the wane (bark) for a clean cut on that side. Been wanting to see a video on this , thanks.
@@markgalicic7788 I understand that , but what about the fixed blade side? Is there a fence that moves on the fixed blade side so as to cut the bark off? Thanks for your time.
Good video, mark. One question - does the scale for the blade adjustment on the machine correspond to the fence engaged or flipped back out of the way? Bill
The board width is between where the fence is and where Mark sets the other blade with the scale. When the fence is down, only the right side of the board will be cut, like a normal table saw. When the fence is flipped up, any rough edge to the left of where the fence would be when it was down will also be cut off, thus edging both sides of the board at once. When you watched the video, you probably noticed that most of the boards had two scrap pieces, one for each side of the board. These were cut with the fence flipped up. A few only had a scrap cut off one edge (the edge closest to the camera). These were cut with the fence flipped down and the existing good edge of the board along the fence.
@@markgalicic7788 okay, I just see so much scrap coming of logs, then the edges on the boards, then there are the bits and pieces that would have 6 foot minus boards, and it looks like a lot just disappears. I am not looking at firewood as "use" by the way. Although that is legiut.
@@markgalicic7788 No, that's not the point. Look at the drive shaft under your car/truck. Notice how the bearing caps are aligned with each other on the opposite ends of the shaft. On the edger the bearing caps are 90 degrees out of phase from one another. If one is horizontal, the other is vertical. They should both be the same.
