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Nice work on the hydraulics! I'm just about to re-set my saw on an old 2-drawer filing cabinet on wheels and need a side mounted downfeed control cylinder so be interested in how yours goes.

Just a correction re not using a counterbalance spring. The hydraulic downfeed control just slows the rate of fall. So long as the blade cuts faster than the rate of fall there is just enough weight on the blade to make it cut. However if you get into hard to cut material and the cutting rate slows then the weight on the teeth starts to rise and if it slows to almost stop, as it might on Inconel or stainless steel that workhardened if you set the hydraulics to cut too slow at the start, then the weight on the teeth rises to the whole weight of the head (20lb bow weight = 50lb on the teeth), which will wreck the blade and you don't even know its happening.

Just be aware this can happen. Either establish that the hydraulics are controlling the cut each time you use or leave the counterbalance spring in set for say 8lb. I'm aiming to leave the spring in place

Rgds--jv?