[Steam-engine] wood bearings

[Jeff Smith]

Robert,

I looked at that sawmill one day so well that the guy
started asking me questions because he could tell that
I knew a little about sawmills.  That mill had a paper
wheel that ran perpendicular to a steel wheel to power
the carriage.  I don't remember the cut-off saw, but I
found it interesting that a state owned boiler could
have the engine removed and the studs ground off flush
with the outside of the boiler and also a few welds
over some of them.  I had a long discussion with the
manager of the steam division and he told me how the
state was starting to crack down on them and he had to
have a new locomotive boiler built.  I love that place
and think it is really neat.

Jeff Smith 

--- HISTMACHRY at aol.com wrote:

> Do any of you know of machinery, lineshafts,
> countershafts, where wood is 
> used as the bearing? Or as a variation on a theme,
> where babbitt is poured 
> directly on the wood. I'm looking for info,
> examples, photos of such bearing 
> arragements primarily in the metal and wood working
> fields, particularly on custom 
> made machines. As an example there is a cut off saw
> at the Agrirama's sawmill in 
> Tifton GA, the bearings on this swing saw look as if
> the steel pulley shaft 
> runs on wood. No one at the site could tell me. 
> 
> 
> Robert Yuill
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