Merry-Go-Round Wood Shingle Maker
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Making wood shingles is a fast, easy job with this "merry-go-round" shingle maker built by Harry Toews, Steinbach, Manitoba, that uses a big band saw to cut slices off 12 blocks of wood at a time as they rotate around the saw on an oval-shaped track. The shingle maker is pto-powered by a small tractor and equipped with a 4-in. wide band saw with teeth spaced 1 in. apart. The 12 steel carriages are pulled around the track by a chain and guided by rubber rollers that ride inside a channel on the track. Each carriage carries a piece of wood with the bark removed. The carriages are equipped with controls that are used to keep the wood properly positioned for each cut. First one side of the wood is cut flat as it comes around. Then Toews loosens each carriage and turns the wood 90 degrees to square the top and bottom. The wood is then ready to be cut into shingles about 3/8 in. thick. As the shingles are cut they fall onto a conveyor to be bundled up.
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Merry-Go-Round Wood Shingle Maker WOODLOT EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous 19-1-24 Making wood shingles is a fast, easy job with this "merry-go-round" shingle maker built by Harry Toews, Steinbach, Manitoba, that uses a big band saw to cut slices off 12 blocks of wood at a time as they rotate around the saw on an oval-shaped track. The shingle maker is pto-powered by a small tractor and equipped with a 4-in. wide band saw with teeth spaced 1 in. apart. The 12 steel carriages are pulled around the track by a chain and guided by rubber rollers that ride inside a channel on the track. Each carriage carries a piece of wood with the bark removed. The carriages are equipped with controls that are used to keep the wood properly positioned for each cut. First one side of the wood is cut flat as it comes around. Then Toews loosens each carriage and turns the wood 90 degrees to square the top and bottom. The wood is then ready to be cut into shingles about 3/8 in. thick. As the shingles are cut they fall onto a conveyor to be bundled up.
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