Sawmill Blades Tips and How To | Wood-Mizer

Join Wood-Mizer portable sawmill owner Logan Wells as he answers top questions and provides tips and how-to for sawmill bandsaw blades including:
0:33 - What Are Sawmill Blades Made Of?
3:56 - How To Choose a Sawmill Blade Profile
10:08 - How To Safely Unpack Sawmill Blades
11:37 - How To Unfold or Uncoil Sawmill Blades
12:50 - How To Fold or Coil Sawmill Blades
13:58 - How To Store Sawmill Blades
15:43 - How To Change a Sawmill Blade
22:06 - How Long Do Sawmill Blades Last?
23:17 - How To Increase Sawmill Blade Life
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[@carpetguydalton]

In my experience: set, hook angle and gullet depth are all determined by how hard/soft the wood is you are cutting. Rule of thumb, hardwood is all low numbers. Softwood all high numbers. But when you were speaking of gullet shallow or deep, you said softwood is a shallow gullet, and hardwood a deep. This is backwards to what Woodmizer, Timberwolf and Cooks service techs had given me on my notes.
Reasoning: Softwood needs higher numbers, creating more dust, necessitating a deeper gullet
Hardwoods need lower numbers creating less dust typically, not needing a deep gullet as this would also create more drag pull between the teeth causing more stress leading to more gullet cracks. Since hardwood typically causes more stress trying to pull teeth apart, the shallower gullet keeps more support between the teeth
I have to say, this by far is one of the most informative videos I have seen for the everyday sawyer. Great job Logan!!

[@macheightfivemark8275]

Yes, that gullet depth comment caught my attention as well.

[@kevinpulver4027]

Super helpful Logan! I'm a blade newbie with only a day or two milling experience. Much needed info, and much appreciated.

[@woodmizer]

Thanks for watching Kevin and welcome to the sawyer life!

[@edwardhurst4069]

Excellent information, thank you so much!🙂🍃

[@woodmizer]

Glad it was helpful!

[@retireddiyguy]

Good job, young man.

[@WolfgangR75]

U explained that really good.
Thx for that. Greetings Wolfgang

[@KPVFarmer]

Great info!

[@woodmizer]

Thanks for watching!

[@rexhavoc2982]

Whats the science on set ? You may need some help with this, bend the tooth down at the gullet or 1/2 way up the tooth or just the tip? You gave a good talk on blades. I know a talk about using the wood Mizer BGAT would help 100s of mill owners ,maybe you could teach that on a video. To adjust a mill from end to end takes a few hours some times. Thanks.

[@canadianjester6118]

Wood-Mizer's 747 profile blade has a 47° back angle.