Simonds Automated Bench, the AB, is your ticket to higher productivity and improved bandsaw performance.
Reducing target size is a great opportunity to increase fiber yield. One key to reducing target size is to reduce saw performance variability thru running properly benched saws (flat and evenly tensioned) on a well maintained mill.
Simonds Automated Bench takes care of the “properly benched” part, all while improving Filing Room productivity. The AB simultaneously levels and tensions the saw, just as a man would. And it performs this task while measuring to .0004″ across the entire area of the saw – length and width. Tension is uniformly replenished. Back is consistently maintained. Level is dead flat. And most importantly, the saws’ Tire Lines are accurately established throughout the entire length of the saw — more so than even possible by hand.
The even, consistent tire lines allow a well-pointed saw to operate at higher feed speeds and higher quality levels, because the tendency to follow grain swirls and log inconsistencies is reduced.
