Ranger RS Features

• Our proprietary vacuum pickup system was designed from the start for handling lumber and is built in-house to ensure quality and reliability.
• Perimeter safety system with light curtains and photo-eyes, utilizes a powerful spring brake chamber to stop the trolley rapidly in an emergency.
• A Safety Gate is used where access to the cart area is needed by the sawyer and maintenance personnel without walking around to the Light Curtain.
• Designed to handle imperial or metric lumber in lengths from 6′ to 20′ (1.8m to 6m) long and sizes 2×3  to 2×12 (35 x 60 to 35 x 300mm) as well as engineered lumber.
• Rigid overhead truss design for spans up to 130′
• Large diameter ball-bearing trolley wheels run on 4″x4″ steel guide rails for ultimate reliability and economy.
• LightSpeed lumber scanning technique uses a precision laser sensor to locate lumber automatically. Patented.
• Depending on the saw, the Infeed deck holds 5 to 7 boards in queue, and operates independently of the picking head, allowing continuous feed to the saw while restocking lumber.
• Stacking available on stacking saw Infeed decks. Stacks 2 – 4 boards depending on the saw.
• Robust control system with rugged induction motor drives. No expensive specialized servo motors.
• Standard Crown Orientation automatically measures crown and orients boards properly for sawing. Patented.
• Available Dual Delivery option, provides two independent picking heads on one trolley, capable of picking boards from two different stations and delivering them in one cycle. Patented.
• Optional Center Feed saw placement puts the saw in the middle, shortening delivery time on long systems. Patented.

Example Ranger RS Set Up Videos