Does anyone still use flat belt?!

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.
Not a luxury anyone using a non live Major had or has. Especially when you've got the brakes locked down!
 

Gapples

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My Grandad used to work at an old sawmill, it used a big old Lister 4 cylinder engine to drive the saw bench.
It was a hand crank only engine !
Anyway, it drove the big circular saw via a very long, wide flat belt, the engine must of been 20 feet from the saw ?
It was some set up u can tell, they had a creosote tank as well for dipping the posts, rails etc, loved that old sawmill, the smells, takes me back a good few decades...
 
It is my intention to make frame so that I can fix sawbench and engine
Also I intend to make exhibit to show at vintage rally where amanco open crank drives overhead shaft provided h+s are happy
That is all I will say for now until I am stuck and needing advice
 
We still have one of those overhead shafts for running different barn machines. I unbolted the Lister from the floor though and put it on a Trolley when I restored it.
We spend a fair bit of time looking through old records for our farm's history, and when we looked up Mrs Fred's horse yard in the British newspaper archive, we found a gruesome story where they were threshing in the yard in the 1880s and the teenage son walked past the thresher with a long handled pitch fork over his shoulder. Someone called him which made him turn round and the fork handle caught in the flat belt and got dragged round the engine pulley killing him on the spot. It was all reported in the usual grizzly way for those days, but it made me a bit wary of flat belts.
 

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