Highland Park coming up with 45" saw and automated saws

Wow! A 45 inch saw! I wonder if it is going to come with a crane for lifting the rocks up!

I like the idea of the controller being able to slow down the feed or even stop cutting all together based on the current draw of the motor. Should help make smoother cuts. Prolong blade life, and help prevent disasters.

I heard about the automated saw awhile ago. Another great idea! Although trying to automatically cut a piece of rough that has pieces fracturing off could cause issues

45" and not 48"? I assume so that they are the only source for blades?
I do like the load sensing feed motor. Somewhere in the archives is my "frankensaw" thread, not looking it up now. I found this home made 12" saw built inside a HF parts washer tub for much less than the cost of a new 12" blade at the time, I think like $30 bucks. I cut a few rocks with it, grenaded the stepper feed motor because the builder had used the stepper bearing to support the feed screw, so I parted it out.
There was no split nut, it had adjustable limit switches for the start and end of travel and put the feed motor into full speed reverse at the end of a cut. The control box has relays that would support 20A and the timers to do the rest, all old school solid state. I still have the control box and limit switches

It had a nice almost new motor that ended up somewhere in another machine that is probably long gone. I wonder if I should try something with the next needy saw tub I find just for fun. NOT the auto slabber of course, don't trust rocks to CNC myself, if you need more slabs faster get more saws. sphereguy Matt tells me that they start cutting faster than you can keep up with at about 10 saws running, maybe one day I can test that theory.