Does anyone still use flat belt?!

[borderterribles]

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

Us too. The stick thing was tricky when it was running though!

 

[borderterribles]

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]

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...

 

[Kidds]

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

Mums tin of treacle always disappeared at sawing time.

 

[startinghandle]

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

 

[Exfarmer]

You can still buy belt dressing spray, it works!

 

[Red Fred]

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.

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

You can still buy belt dressing spray, it works!

Yes works well

Not the cheapest mind.

 

[Hesstondriver]

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

Stockholm tar

 

[solo]

Stockholm tar

That was used here on the belts. That smell is really unique

It was also used on pigs if tail biting started.

 

[Netherfield]

That was used here on the belts. That smell is really unique

It was also used on pigs if tail biting started.

And on poultry if they were feather pecking.

 

[solo]

And on poultry if they were feather pecking.

Yes, I’d nearly forgotten my father using it on the hens on occasion.

 

[X344chap]

Belt pulley on the back of a Leyland 344 driving a Massey Harris hammer mill. Cyclone and bagger in the loft above the mill.

 

[Courier]

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.

If you want to get in amongst a workshop with a live lineshaft open to the public this is where you need to go :---

https://www.heritage.org.nz/places/...spx?_id=83996458046B4C258855561D1F68ACAD&_z=z

 

[spanners and hammers]

remember dad telling me about the fitter at work had a machine that run with a lose flat belt and his trick was to run his hand under it and scare the new lads ,, until the new fitter tighten it up as he did not know it should be lose

 

[tomlad]

I got new flat belts from AC belting. Pressumbly still trading

 

[spanners and hammers]

tony at beltec market rasen will be able to help