Chinese chariot

[joespehar]

I just watched a PBS NOVA program about ancient Chinese chariots.  Two guys replicated one.  To make the wheels they ripped a long piece of lumber and steam-bent it.  What I was wondering, does anybody know what kind table saw that was that one of the guys ripped the wood on?  The blade was huge enough to rip (resaw) a piece that was maybe 5 or 6 inches thick.   The rip fence looked like if was about a foot tall, and the table was very long.  It looked like a piece very old iron.

[Admiral]

Link to video, look at about 15:52; hard to tell what kind of saw he is using, but he's in England . . . .

http://www.pbs.org/video/3000902498/

[EvilTwin]

European saw, old for sure.  Maybe something like a 12" blade?  The wood looked to be about 3-4 inches tall and the blade extended above it about an inch or so.  That would jive with a 12" blade.

[TGW]

I cannot see the video but could it be an European style cirkular rip saw?

Something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOCEjb7FyKs

This is an unusually big one by the way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9HMLx6Iiv8
Theese big ones are considered very unsafe and are hardly ever used anymore.


My rip saw has a 24" blade which gives 20 cm (8") depth of cut. It was manufactured in Chemnitz, Germany in 1885. It is retrofitted with a 10hp three phase motor.
Now it just need a new switch box to make it ready to run after the total rebuild and safety upgrade I gave it last year.