Evidently the doofus factor here is going to whine about the election
until there's another one to whine about.

I've given bandsaws for wood some thought, and observed some commercial
versions as well.

Wood-Mizer uses large double-belt pulleys as wheels, with belts (just
barely larger than the pulley) in there as a tire.

The easiest way to simplify the framing and forces on a bandsaw is to
forget the "C" concept and throw away half the throat - then you can run
a beam from axle to axle. For most lumber-milling, this will not really
limit the useful size of the saw, as you hardly ever cut that deep into
the throat.

I either had a thought of, or quite possibly read about someone doing
(but don't recall where) using car tires (and wheels and other car
parts), which would appear to allow building a more "fixed" mount and
adjusting tension with air pressure (while having inexpensive highly
durable bearings). Not sure if that really would work.

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