How to set up a frequently used bandsaw

The steel supplier I buy from in Memphis has a powered roller conveyer infeed and uses pneumatic clamps to hold the steel while the blade moves . Might be hard to mod your setup to feed the blade instead of the stock though .

One assumes you are talking about a horizontal band saw?

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2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

All the "automatic" horizontal saws use a controlled infeed and do NOT move the blade assembly

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

This is a vertical saw , and I stood there last time and watched . It's all automated , powered infeed , control board separate from the saw unit , etc . Roll into position , clamp , cut , unclamp and send 'er down the rollers . BIG saw , looks to handle up to 16-18" high by same width .

Hydmech, DoAll, Marvel, Wellsaw, King, Jet, Collins, Nichols?

I dont think Amada made an automatic vertical.

Ive worked on all of them. Buddy has a Wellsaw for sale...but the automatic parts counter doesnt work..so it cuts one at a time, feeds and then shuts off. So someone needs to pay attention to it to keep cutting long stock I think its 16x16"

I brokered a 20" horizontal Marvel last year that Id rebuilt for a company.

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

yes

You didn't talk about the output side. Depending on how long (and heavy) the cut pieces are coming out of our 10" horizontal power feed band saw we either let them drop into 5 gallon buckets, into a wheelbarrow, or onto a rolltop table/cart where we manually slide them off to the side out of the way of the next piece.

I am foreseeing a project that will see a lot of bandsawing.

Right now my setup has a bandsaw, a T shaped support on one side, and the cutoffs fall into a wooden box.

I am not really satisfied with that and want to make a nice setup.

To that end, my plan is to use two manual roller conveyor sections, which I have, and to carefully level everything. Furthermore, I will try to make sure that the rounds could not roll off the conveyors.

The goal here is to make cutting as safe as possible and also as productive as possible.

Any ideas that I may have missed?

thanks

If you are cutting your stock into smaller chunks..Id strongly recommend purchasing an automatic feed saw, from any of the makers I mentioned in a previous post...and be done with the "manual" saw.

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie