Zach81

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I got this belt lacer today a guy have me with a round baler. Looks like it was used for lacing old steam engine era flat belts.
Clipper #12
I assume for 12" belts.
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The #12 IRRC can be used for modern baler belts, I worked for a JD dealer and I think the # 12 was being used. Flat threshing machine belts were usually laced with a leather thong almost like a shoe lace. My uncle taught me how to do it.
 
You must have had a very old belt to have a leather lace. I probably have 20 threshing machine drive belts and all have a steel connector except the ones that have the original vulcanized splice. The belts that are missing when I buy an old thresher can be made by Cartney Bearing, Watertown SD. All the smaller belts that drive a thresher also have steel splices. Good thing about a 12" machine is you can do a lot of different size belts.
 

That's a real nice lacer, they sell in the hundreds of $$$ up here. last one I saw like that sold to an Amish guy and was over $300 IIRC.
 
Yes, that's a nice $$$ lacer. We have a fairly new one just like that at work that we use
to lace the (box) conveyor belts and incline belts. Ya probably already know this but...
bearing supply houses like Applied Industrial, Motion Industries, Grainger have the lacing.
Follow the instructions to get a good lacing. Can't count the number of times the guys over
clamp ruining the lace. The old tighter is better mistake.
 
The belt lacer brings back good memories of my childhood. My family ran Sawmills in Pepperell,MA. There was a stationary mill and a portable - They ran off steam power and tha second one burnt in 1947 when I was a baby 1 year old hard to believe but I described the lever you see in one of the pictures to my dad and he found it and to believe that I could remember something that I saw as a 1 year old. The one in thepicture was portable (it was moved by horses during the winter (a 6 month project ) to new logging sites. We had a big Alamo 6hp ignitor ignition 1 cylinder in one of the board yards that ran the edger (used to true the egdes of the lumber,both sides in one pass. It was running when I was old enough to pass boards to him with my brothers. The lether belt was laced with rawhide. Then I had a cord wood saw when I was thirteen (again run with a 2 1/2 horse monarch ,hit missand a metallaced leather belt, dressed with rendered white pine sap. I loved the slap and the tacky sound of the dressing as the belt ran thru the flat pulleys with a weighted tensioner pully. I will always miss that sound. I still have the 25 hp 11x12 steam engine in MA (given tomy nephew) and I have the engine here I used to cut cord wood for the neighbors for spending money (again when I was around 13) we would draw hot water from the hopper for hot chocolate & coffee. I still mix our concrete (well I don't do the shoveling because I an disabled) but I play engine starter and tender.I don't walk well and can only stand for a short time.
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At one time I had over 20 hit-miss engines. The picture is ofmy grandfather and one of the mill crews in the 30s. The chimney ran the stationary mill. I might add that the portable woul be moved over 30 miles and contracted for no less than 1,000,000 board ft to warrant a move. The loges were skidded on"scoots" (wooden sleds,behind horses)If you look closley at the mill site you will see horses ( Dolly & Molly)hitched to scoots with loads of logs. The horses farmed during the summer & worked in the woodlots during the winter - the farmers traveled with horses and slept in take apart sheds with their horses. The chimney still stands at the stationary site (burned in 1947)It was a good life!
I wanted to share this with you all.
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Oh for you steam guys the carriage was nicknamed "The sling shot" because it was run by a steam dredge winch with reverse 2 opposed cylinders and ahd a reputation of being the fastest carraiges in the MA NH area. Yankee ingenuity rube gold burg engineered.
I may be bragging a bit but I am proud of my heritage.
 

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