Saw Tensioning Device (photo) · AditNow Community

Captain Scarlet
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17 years ago

Hey LAP, have you seen this artifact on one of your numerous wanderings around Burlington ?

Photograph:

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STANDBY FOR ACTION!!!!...

Gwyn
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17 years ago

#2

What kind of saw would be tensioned by this device?
Sorry, dumb question; I've just opened the enlarged version with description. Cheers.

LAP
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17 years ago

#3

No I havent actually, not even todays. One thing I did find out thought that worried me slightly is that the quarryface in the main pit had moved again quite significantly, so now most of the adits could only be accessed by climbing up a sheer vertical rockface. But... I did find some nice scales for a couple of weighbridges. Also got some video footage of a excavator dumping a load of rock into one of the rather deep disused quarries.. Ill send it to Simon when I get time.

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LAP
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17 years ago

#4

It could have been removed, but it looks like its in the southern reaches of the workings (old bits)... seems a bit strange just to be dumped on the moorland though!

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Lliaws a bwyllaf - Líows o boylav
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Na syrch yn eissywyt - na soroc yn eishoyth
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ChrisP
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17 years ago

#5

"LAP" wrote:
seems a bit strange just to be dumped on the moorland though!

Doesn't looked dumped to me, it's obviously in the position it last worked at, as it's still on rails and anchored down with slabs. My guess is the wires used for the sawing were very long (description mentions hundreds of feet of wire) and stretched from here to the quarry face.

LAP
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17 years ago

#6

"ChrisP" wrote:

"LAP" wrote:
seems a bit strange just to be dumped on the moorland though!

Doesn't looked dumped to me, it's obviously in the position it last worked at, as it's still on rails and anchored down with slabs. My guess is the wires used for the sawing were very long (description mentions hundreds of feet of wire) and stretched from here to the quarry face.

Good thinking man!
Im still unsure of where it is!

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Byt vndyd mwyhaf - byth onddyth moyav
Lliaws a bwyllaf - Líows o boylav
Ac a bryderaf - ac o boryddarav
Kyfarchaf y veird byt - covarcav yr vairth
Pryt nam dyweid - poryth na'm dowaith
Py gynheil y byt - Pa gonail y byth
Na syrch yn eissywyt - na soroc yn eishoyth
Neur byt bei syrchei - nour byth bai sorochai

Gwyn
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17 years ago

#7

What kind of wire?
What kind of abrasive?

LAP
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17 years ago

#8

"Gwyn" wrote:
What kind of wire?
What kind of abrasive?

Not entirely sure, the wire is one of a thin, diamond sawing type. It can be found in large quantaties in some areas of the quarry.

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Byt vndyd mwyhaf - byth onddyth moyav
Lliaws a bwyllaf - Líows o boylav
Ac a bryderaf - ac o boryddarav
Kyfarchaf y veird byt - covarcav yr vairth
Pryt nam dyweid - poryth na'm dowaith
Py gynheil y byt - Pa gonail y byth
Na syrch yn eissywyt - na soroc yn eishoyth
Neur byt bei syrchei - nour byth bai sorochai

ChrisP
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17 years ago

#9

Some types of wire saw used plain wire, and sand was used as the abrasive- it was just fed into the cut. Not sure if this particular example worked that way, or if the wire itself cut the rock.