Does anyone still use flat belt?!

curlietailz

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Arable Farmer
Location
Sedgefield
My old hammer mill worked off a pulley. Had a PTO one fixed to the back of a Nuffield. Was about 15 feet long and was a bugger to line up. Ha ha. Nightmare Elf n Safety
And a pulley saw bench on a Major

thought we were the dogs rubbish when we got a PTO driven bench that fitted on the link arms too !!
 
My dad used to crush with a flat belt driven big old hunt roller mill, it had hammer mill and a roller mill combined. He used to run it with a db 850 which had belt pulley on. Lining up was a art form [emoji848]
That old Mill used to make a wonderful rumbling noise... Mum used to put a tea towel on the court gate to say it was time to stop [emoji16]
 

renewablejohn

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Location
lancs
Have a 46 inch blade rack saw still using a flat belt with a fergi pulley so that it simply connects to a pto shaft rather than having to line the flat belt up every time.
 

TheTallGuy

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Location
Cambridgeshire
Quite probably :). Anyone else used to have a bag of sand ready to throw some onto the belt if it started to slip?:eek:
The benefit of the saw bench on the 135 is that if the belt slips you adjust the tension by tweaking the lift arm height. As for H&S - the belt is reasonably well out of the way so not easily accessible & doesn't represent a significant hazard - unlike the angry end that has limited guarding & very sharp teeth moving quite fast. Fortunately I own & use the kit as a private individual for my own use rather than as part of the farming business so I don't have to worry about HSE slapping a prohibition notice on me.
 

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