Belt Pulley Construction?

This IH pulley and gearbox was purchased about 8 years ago from a dealer's NOS obsolete stock. It has never run a belt

I would not reproduce a fiber pulley from one piece of wood. In fact, I would not bother to make nor risk injury with a homemade 20 pound bomb that rotates at 1000 RPM. Be thankful that Paper Pullies, Inc is still in business and a good pulley can be purchased for less than $200. Contact them for an exact price.

My dad bought a new W4 in 42 with a paper pulley. he traded in 1951 for a new H, supposed to be delivered with a new paper pulley. Dealer advised he couldn't get a paper pulley and if he wanted one he best switch the pullies. He did and that is how our 51 H had a paper pulley. Buy 1955, he traded the H for a 300. The 300 came with a 15" diameter steel pulley, and keeping the paper pulley was no longer an issue for dad. He wasn't using his pulley any how, everything was going pto. Belt pullies were clearly on there way out by 1955. I don't ever remember belting that 300 up in 35 years. We bought 3 more new tractors by 1965, and none of them even had a belt pulley.

Your buzz saw was probably built in a local blacksmith shop. I don't ever remember tractor manufacturers offering much in the line of buzz saws. There were a couple, but they just couldn't compete with local blacksmiths. You'd probably be as well off loading it for the scrap dealer first chance you get. Those things required at least 6 men, 10 if you were in big wood. I worked on a few of those crews, my dad had one and used to travel from farm to farm bucking up fire wood.

Suddenly around 1952 the buzz saw business died. Two men with chain saws could buck more wood per hour than than a six man buzz saw crew, and there was no lifting of long sticks. Dad kept his buzz saw a few years, it had fallen into a state of disrepair from lack of use. One spring he pulled it out, was thinking about using it, decided first to sharpen it. He was fileing when a fertilizer salesman drove in. The fertilizer salesman said, "Man don't use that thing, cut it up for scrap." he went on to tell my dad how his father and grand father had been using one, similar state of repair. The arbor came loose from the babbit bearings, flywheel, arbor and saw went flying cutting off his grand father's head. After the salesman left, dad dismantled the saw, saving the arbor, saw blade and flywheel. He hauled the rest to the dump. That was 1952, and that saw, arbor and flywheel stayed in my shed until 1978, and I had a chap come along, silly enough to offer me money for it.

I get my wood from Craigslist's free section located under the 'For Sale' heading. In the spring, summer and fall, there are at least a dozen ads per day that offer free firewood. Most of it it cut to stove length and some is even split and seasoned.

Last year I picked up 8 tons of Anthracite coal and over 3000 gallons of heating oil. Half of the oil cost me $1.00 per gallon; the rest was free. You might say that all of it was free because I charge for tank removals. The oil goes into my diesels. I even got 200 lbs of propane. That will probably go into my diesels as well.

The people who give away the fuel are not being charitable. They just want it to disappear and at no cost to them.

The free section of Craigslist is amazing. It's kinda like Alice's Resturant. "You can get anything you want". Patience pays though.

BTW, it was I that erroneously posted under the name of 'Pics' above.

One additional suggestion Strip your core and paint the metal. They don't sand blast so your pulley will have the paint on when you get it back. They also don't want you to paint the paper portion as it causes things to separate.

Voice of experience.

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Andy.

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