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Rock saw

AtlasRob ยท 2008-05-22 15:50

This isn't strickly a mill but the teeth that do the business are the same, its just a very narrow version Its a rock saw and was used to cut the tarmac covered concrete of the motorway both sides of the trench that was to be dug for drainage. The slots were topped off with temp tarmac until a few nights later when the drainage was done during another lane closure.

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  1. #1Dirt Devil2008-09-14 20:22

    Great pics ive never seen a saw like that :drinkup i would like to find out a bit more about the machined

  2. #2Grader4me2008-09-15 05:28

    Wow! Another first for me. Now that's a blade! Great pictures!

  3. #3MKTEF2008-09-15 16:21

    We all apreciate the efforts made to give us the pics! I can see it started raining after a while.... Very nice job!

  4. #4Nac2008-09-15 19:36

    That is a Vermeer wheel at least thats what we call it here my cousin has one in his fleet.

  5. #5EqmtRunr2008-09-15 20:08

    we have a cutting wheel for a skidsteer like that, we call it a pizza wheel :beatsme

  6. #6AtlasRob2008-09-17 16:40

    Of course it rained its UK Could well be a Vermeer machine Nac, although thier web site mentions a Tesmec machine but that could be another machine. Heres the link to thier site for anybody intrested in what these machines can do :notworthy http://www.essexcaretrenching.co.uk/

  7. #7AtlasRob2008-12-14 16:33

    other extreme Well thats was a very big wheel. A few weeks ago I came across its little brother :yup

  8. #8Dirt Devil2008-12-14 17:28

    hold on....no chain, belts or cogs? ive never seen it like that before. we mainly have these in australia http://www.stihl.com.au/Products/category.cfm?iCategoryID=6 call them cut off saws but the blades can be changed around to watever you wana do with it. and is that disc in the middle of the wheel....seperate???

  9. #9AtlasRob2008-12-20 15:57

    It has me scratching my head, and I was watching him use it. The centre wheel is fixed and the cutting wheel driven around it some how. It is hydraulically driven from a power pack but I suspect other forms of power are probably available.