Most small sawmills, engaged in the primary log cutting with bandsaw blades, are not self-sufficient in the field of their blade grinding. This means, that in order to properly maintain their bandsaw blades, they have to visit distant grinders. Consequently that means a huge financial and time burden for these sorts of sawmills. In the first part of these thesis, a review of current situation in the field of production and grinding of bandsaw blades for cutting of wooden logs is made. This is followed by the design and complete production of bandsaw blade grinding machine, suitable for usage on small sawmills, from a price and user point of view. In this part of the thesis, we also present the production of two new bandsaw blades, with opened and heat treated teeth tips, which makes the two of them different from bandsaw blades with Stellite tipped teeth tips, that are mostly used nowadays. This work also includes the experiment of log cutting with both of the mantioned bandsaw blades, where one of the blades is sharpened on our new bandsaw blade grinding machine and the other one on the existing VOLLMER Cana E grinding machine. This gives us an insight into the quality of grinding with our new grinding machine and an answer about suitability of our bandsaw blades for cutting of wooden logs. The final part of our thesis includes a cost analysis of production of our bandsaw blade grinding machine and cost review of production and maintenance of bandsaw blades.
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