And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
We had an 8' circular blade blow up at the mill in Idaho where I used to work. I was off that day, but I guess it made quite the racket. Thank God no one was hurt. They got it on CCTV video-blew up like a flash of lightning. Lotsa time in staff meetings and and safety meetings talking about that afterward. Operator booth for that blade got beefed up quite a bit after that too.
My Uncle Bill, God rest his soul, owned a mill that made quarter-sawn, white oak barrel staves for the whiskey industry. He sold it to Brown-Forman when he retired. I don't recall his blades being that big, but they were big.
Old guy across the road, bit of Grizzly Adams-type, told me he was building a portable saw mill, with "parts". Went over to see it one day. Kinda neat with a big table on tracks that would shuttle back and forth, controlled hydraulically. But the eye opener was a 6 foot buzz saw blade he scored Lord-knows-where, with replaceable teeth. No guards or such. no idea what he was going to use on it cause big trees round here were logged out generations ago for farmland.
you can bet it happened.
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That's what I thought until 3 og my fingers met a table saw after 32 years of being a carpenter
DeleteI bet that sumbitch sings like the worlds biggest crash cymbal when it's working.
ReplyDeleteWe had an 8' circular blade blow up at the mill in Idaho where I used to work. I was off that day, but I guess it made quite the racket. Thank God no one was hurt. They got it on CCTV video-blew up like a flash of lightning. Lotsa time in staff meetings and and safety meetings talking about that afterward. Operator booth for that blade got beefed up quite a bit after that too.
ReplyDeleteMy Uncle Bill, God rest his soul, owned a mill that made quarter-sawn, white oak barrel staves for the whiskey industry. He sold it to Brown-Forman when he retired. I don't recall his blades being that big, but they were big.
ReplyDeleteOld guy across the road, bit of Grizzly Adams-type, told me he was building a portable saw mill, with "parts". Went over to see it one day. Kinda neat with a big table on tracks that would shuttle back and forth, controlled hydraulically. But the eye opener was a 6 foot buzz saw blade he scored Lord-knows-where, with replaceable teeth. No guards or such. no idea what he was going to use on it cause big trees round here were logged out generations ago for farmland.
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