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Line Shafts and Belt Driven Woodshop - Ray Newman - 01-28-2017
Line Shafts and belt driven machines. As they worked wood Back-In-The-Day: no guards, loose belts, Babbitt bearings, cast iron machines, etc.
Video loads very slowly, but worth the wait.
http://www.finewoodworking.com/2017/01/27/motc-bob-berghorsts-vintage-line-shaft-woodshop
RE: Line Shafts and Belt Driven Woodshop - museumguy - 01-28-2017
Here's another. This one was featured on This Old House back in the day.
http://www.beechrivermill.com/
I love these places, thanks for the link.
RE: Line Shafts and Belt Driven Woodshop - MichaelS - 01-28-2017
Very cool, thanks for sharing.
michael
RE: Line Shafts and Belt Driven Woodshop - BillinIN - 01-28-2017
Bravo!!!
RE: Line Shafts and Belt Driven Woodshop - Steve N - 01-28-2017
I started swapping tools back in 1965. I can't tell you how many line shops I bought up. Back then most guys added pulleys and motors and converted them. It's sweet seeing an old Curmudgeon buy, and keep them on power shafts
Thanks for posting this.
RE: Line Shafts and Belt Driven Woodshop - camp10 - 01-29-2017
I love looking at stuff like this! Thanks for posting it.
I can't imagine the total weight of all that iron.
RE: Line Shafts and Belt Driven Woodshop - RobertM - 01-29-2017
I find it truly amazing what they could do with the equipment they had back in the day!
Love it!
RE: Line Shafts and Belt Driven Woodshop - Cecil - 01-31-2017
I used to catch wood off of a belt driven buzz saw, like the one in the video below, while my granddad ran the saw. Granddad only had one arm. Guess what happened to the other one. It was not the saw that grabbed him, but the side PTO pulley. It caught his sleeve and he was lucky to live at all.