Does anyone still use flat belt?!

[startinghandle]

Is there anyone still using flat belt on side pulley on major or rear pulley on fergi on dexta to drive sawbench or other machine

 

[TheTallGuy]

Is there anyone still using flat belt on side pulley on major or rear pulley on fergi on dexta to drive sawbench or other machine

Yep, I still use a flat belt on the MF135 & Fergie sawbench, replaced it a couple of years back as the old one had gotten a bit threadbare!

 

[betweenthelines]

My father used to use a belt driven sawbench. A big log kicked back off the blade once and knocked him out. He woke up 10 minutes later, got to his feet and carried on sawing.

 

[borderterribles]

I sold a restored FMD a few years ago to a guy from Norfolk, who specifically wanted it to run a sawbench off the belt pulley. He looked at me gone out when I asked him if they didn't have HSE Inspectors over there!

 

[Kidds]

The belt broke on mine and slapped me in the face.
That was enough of that, never again.

 

[Wurzeetoo]

I got given 2 last week time to get the stationary engines out and get something going

 

[spin cycle]

we had a saw bench run by one when i was little....as it was going round i used to put little bits of wood on it

 

[spin cycle]

My father used to use a belt driven sawbench. A big log kicked back off the blade once and knocked him out. He woke up 10 minutes later, got to his feet and carried on sawing.

b'stard hard

 

[curlietailz]

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 !!

 

[curlietailz]

Might still have the flat belt laying around somewhere ??

 

[hendrebc]

My grandfather made a thing to turn a belt pulley off a PTO years and years ago. The son of an old friend of his phoned us up last year asking if he could borrow it.
We sold it maybe 30 years ago... dad said he had a better memory than he did because he'd forgotten all about it

 

[mo!]

We used to have a shaft running across the barn with pulleys for all sorts of different bits of kit, mills, cake crushes, even a bag hoist. Only the bearings are left in the walls now.

 

[celtis man]

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]

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.

 

[roscoe erf]

if I say yes is this going to to start a hse debate again

 

[motrac3a]

We used to have a shaft running across the barn with pulleys for all sorts of different bits of kit, mills, cake crushes, even a bag hoist. Only the bearings are left in the walls now.

Still have!! Shaft with bearings at either end mounted on really thick wood beams. Shaft has 4 or 5 pulleys mounted on it.

 

[borderterribles]

if I say yes is this going to to start a hse debate again

Quite probably . Anyone else used to have a bag of sand ready to throw some onto the belt if it started to slip?

 

[TheTallGuy]

Quite probably . Anyone else used to have a bag of sand ready to throw some onto the belt if it started to slip?

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.

 

[jellybean]

I have a big roll of flat belt if anybody needs some.

 

[renewablejohn]

Quite probably . Anyone else used to have a bag of sand ready to throw some onto the belt if it started to slip?

Used to have a tin of tacky stuff that used to be spread on the belt with a stick prior to hse police.