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Edging Saw for Breast Benches

Woodtalk, April 2004

Boutique sawmills in both Australia and New Zealand all recognise the need to increase production but without the hassle of a major revamp and, more importantly, maintaining the flexibility of the breast bench. Southern Cross Engineering saw this need and came up with an solution - a second positional pop-up edging saw.

Mitchell Bros. Darfield. New Zealand, worked alongside SCE on the installation of the first machine at their sawmill in late 2003. Tony Mitchell, Managing Director, comments "We're very limited for mill space and only wanted to have 2 machine centres, cutting 70 to 75m(cubed) per day with a high degree of accuracy. This pop-up power bench gives us the flexibility of a breast bench and the benefits of an edger". He went on to say that the full benefits won't be realised until they install an efficient roundabout system.

Technical Specification

Main Saw	1000mm diameter   75HP (56kW) drive	Hydraulic setworks with sawyer friendly console
PopUp Saw	460mm diameter 30HP (22kW) drive	Dual-driven radial hobs Driven bed rollers with
Linebar Fence	1800mm	Rapid return at side.
Cut Depth	Mainsaw 300mm  PopUp Saw 100mm	Designed to fit into  your existing breast bench space

                                                                                                                                                        

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