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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/2017/01/2...t-woodshop
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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.
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Very cool, thanks for sharing.
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I love looking at stuff like this! Thanks for posting it.
I can't imagine the total weight of all that iron.
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I find it truly amazing what they could do with the equipment they had back in the day!
Love it!
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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.
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