Thread: Making a Strop?

This is way cool. I have a leather 2 x 72 belt made of water buffalo and would love to try some other leathers on the Bader. This puppy does some wicked stropping. Does an interesting job with pastes too.

Couple in 2 x 72 please!!!!

Lynn

Utopian,

I didn't think a John Deere G would run a sawmill well enough to cut logs that size. I've seen logs about that size bring a 75 hp steam engine right down to its knees and a G only has about 45 hp on the belt.

But it certainly would make one heck of a power stropper.

I was talking to my father tonight and he mentioned that when he helped run the belt driven hay bailers, he used a block of alum on the belt from time to time to help the pulleys keep a good grip on the belt....

With this in mind, does anyone know if having alum on your strop would be a problem? or if it could be cleaned off easily? even after being on there for years?

I don't know if everyone used alum to help their drive belts grip, but if my father used it, the user of those belts might have also.

Originally Posted by Bruce

Utopian,

I didn't think a John Deere G would run a sawmill well enough to cut logs that size. I've seen logs about that size bring a 75 hp steam engine right down to its knees and a G only has about 45 hp on the belt.

But it certainly would make one heck of a power stropper.

I just pulled those images off of the web to show examples of the belts but I'd assume the photos to be genuine. I can't imagine such a photo to be posed. Perhaps the saw had different gearing? When I was a kid, we never used such a lumber sawmill. We only used it for crosscutting for firewood, not for dimensional lumber.