A wooden bandsaw ... scary ...

[Blackswanwood]

I saw this at the Marathon Motor Works in Nashville ...

I have never seen a bandsaw that is made from wood before. It would have been driven by an overhead shaft ...

I couldn't stop thinking about what would happen if the blade broke

 

[Sachakins]

 

[Inspector]

Given wagons of the period could haul tons it isn't a far stretch to believe they wouldn't work driving a bandsaw blade.

Pete

 

[Chubber]

In 1974-6 when I was stationed in Malta GC there was one in a chair-making shop in Naxxar, IIRC, belt driven from a little I/C engine.

 

[niall Y]

I remember back in the1970's visiting a sawmill in West Wales. As well as the main, circular saw being driven by a water wheel there was also a bandsaw, most of whose components were wood.

 

[Stigmorgan]

I saw this at the Marathon Motor Works in Nashville ...

View attachment 188473

I have never seen a bandsaw that is made from wood before. It would have been driven by an overhead shaft ...


View attachment 188474

I couldn't stop thinking about what would happen if the blade broke

Wow that thing is beautiful

 

[Dabop]

Wooden wheels for bandsaws were common in 'the olden days' and still are with DIY made ones- they work remarkably well (even plywood ones lol)- my grandad had a 'homemade ply' bandsaw- as in everything but the blade and motor was wood- and it was still in great cutting shape until long after he passed away (and he made it in his early 20's and (just) hit 90....)

I wish I still had a lot of his old 'home made' stuff- bicycle powered tools (the farm didn't get electricity until they had been living there a couple of decades!!!) bike bench grinder, another was a drill press- he was a real DIYer lol

 

[Ozi]

My dad was offered an apprenticeship in a wood shop but decided to become a toolmaker instead. The reason when he looked around the wood shop a lot of the older chaps had bits missing. All well pre the HASAWA. Even then he worked on an overhead driven lathe where start / stop was achieved by hitting the side of the belt with your hand to knock it on or off the driven side of the driving pulley. apparently you soon learned to miss the bit of wire stuck through the belt joint.

 

[Delaney]

Maybe they used wooden blades too!

 

[TRITON]

According to 'legend' though that has never been officially acknowledged -

During WW2 the Germans in an attempt to prevent airfields being bombed, constructed mock wooden aircraft, and basically shell buildings, giving the appearance of a command center.
It was hoped the British would bomb this and not the real thing.

But, the RAF had noticed this was going on during reconnaissance flights, so knew these were all fake.

Rather than bomb them, they waited till the Germans had completed them then flew over and dropped bombs on it.

The bombs were made of wood.

https://www.forcesnews.com/feature/...fake-wooden-bombs-fake-wooden-decoy-airfields