My personal opinion is that for most applications along these lines you should get electric machinery and then run it from a biodiesel powered generator. It is a lot more flexible. For example, I have been looking at oil press machinery and at first thought I would want to power it directly with a biodiesel fueled Diesel engine. The machinery directly driven with a Diesel engine was a lot heavier, needed a much heavier foundation to damp the vibrations, and was more cumbersome. I wanted to be able to move the press fairly easily from site to site, but the Diesel direct drive required a 'permanent' concrete foundation, whereas the electric drive unit only required a steel frame foundation. There seems to me to be little downside to powering an electric mill with a biodiesel fueled Diesel generator.
Derek -----Original Message----- From: Ben Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 17:21 To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Diesel Sawmill Hello, Does anyone have any advice on purchasing a small portable diesel band sawmill?The only model I have found is the LT15 by Wood Mizer (which is a bit out of our budget). Our school is interested in a 8-15hp band sawmill that can run on biodiesel. Simple, mostly manual mills are of particular interest as we are remote from any service operations. A used mill might be fine. The wood is Casuarina, and at least as dense as shagbark hickory. Thanks for any insight you may have! -Ben Ben K. Falk Design-Build Manager The Island School Cape Eleuthera, Bahamas www.islandschool.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
