It has been said that time is
gold. No matter what you are doing, the more time is saved, the better. It is
especially essential when you operate a band sawmill, in addition to the
effectiveness of the production, you also need to keep an eye on the time it
has taken. This is based on how you approach it. A good strategy for carrying
out the process in step – by – step will help you very much in saving time. And
here are 5 best tips for you.
1. Do not hurry
Among the most serious mistakes,
there is one which you, the sawyers,
enable to cause is to carry out the cuts in a hurry. As many of us still keep
thinking that if you hurry to do every job, it will help you save time. You try
to push out the board footage as much as possible by beginning to saw corners
as well as try to boost the devices’ capacity than they are tended to do, which
lead to the result of disasters. In fact, this is absolutely wrong but also
there perhaps some contrast consequences because of the misuses and abusing of the
device. Never hurry with a band saw. Just spending your time and working safely
on the cutting tool are very effective in the long run in addition to high capacity
and less tension.
2. Log preparation
If you have a good preparation of
the logs prior to going them on the saw, there will be much time saved. Cut
back the log bell on its butt as close as possible to the diameter of the rest,
which helps much in avoiding against monitoring the saw. For instance, finding
a wood log in your backyard and then tend to have a cut, it is your chance to
pick up the metal detector to find out some more nails left there for the
reason of avoid hitting them with your band saw blade. Do not forget to clean
the log as dirt is the second enemy of your blade, just after hard metal.
3. Always use a sharp blade
Have you ever experienced or
imagined how it would be if you use your best band saw blades for a very long time? Just
thinking that you are working on a big log with a dull blade, the clear
consequence is either the blade will be flown out and shot to somewhere /
someone or it will be stuck in the board. From that point, there are two ways
for you to deal with that situation, either you cut the half board to get the
stuck blade out or work your blade back out. It is really time - consuming,
isn’t it?
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Thus, to save time as well as
ensure the best capacity, you need to pay attention to the sharpness of the
blade. Change or sharpen it when it is dull. It just take a bit time doing. If
your need to tighten the saw blade usually while in use, it means that the
blade is dull.
4. Prevent the breakdowns
The maintenance jobs may take
time, but it is very worthy to do. If there is a sudden breakdown, you will
spend more time than to fix while not mentioning to the costs you have to pay
for. The time that must have been used for producing some new products, you use
for repairing. But just following the manual maintenance routine, can you count
how much time and money are saved? It just takes about twenty minutes to grease
the band
saw daily before use.
