Looking for a compact design for a 9x9 wall 'o saws

[ilovekintoki]

Hey guys, as per title I'm trying to find a compact-as-possible way of implementing a 9x9 wall 'o saws. The design I'm currently looking at has dimensions 7x7x7 and I would love to have a more "vertical" one, ie one that only occupies a small amount in, say, the x,y-direction and more in the z-direction. A picture of my current design:

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Thanks in advance!

[TheAnarchitect]

Define "Compact." When trying to get a bunch of working mechanical devices directly next to each other, there's really no such thing.

Here's the best I can do.

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This is done at each row.



This is done at the two corners to get power to everything.

I can make something more compact, but which doesn't power every saw in the wall. It skips every fourth saw.

[ilovekintoki]

I'm sorry, it seems I mistyped twice. I was only looking for a 3x3 wall, dunno how I got that mixed up. Anyway, I applied the pattern in your design to a 3x3 wall, which gave me the following:

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It has dimensions 5x7x5, which I can easily change to 5x5x7 with a simple rotation. This is actually precisely what I needed, thanks a ton!

[TheAnarchitect]

I was wondering what on earth you could need a 9x9 wall of saws for anyway. Yeah, 3x3 is much simpler, I bet I could get it even smaller.

[ilovekintoki]

Heh, well, I don't really care much about the vertical coordinate, but improvements to the x and y axis are always welcome.

[rhacer]

It's really cool seeing this as I just ripped out a design that had three saws side-by-side over three hoppers. So it was a 2x3 type design. Unfortunately I had forgotten that there is a gap under a saw and most of the pigs that went in ended up dead, with their meat behind and under the saws instead of in the hoppers. I was horribly disappointed, but glad that it looks like I was on the right track with how to get the mechanical working.

[edit] horrible spelling and grammar.

[Mr_Hosed]

It's really cool seeing this as I just ripped out a design that had three saws side-by-side over three hoppers. So it was a 2x3 type design. Unfortunately I had forgotten that there is a gap under a saw and most of the pigs that went in ended up dead, with their meet behind under the saws instead of in the hoppers. I was horribly disappointed, but glad that it looks like I was on the right track with how to get the mechanical working.

LOL. I actually had the same experience with my sky grinder kill room when initially building it. Forgot about the gap and all my items ended up in a pile behind my hoppers rather then in the hoppers.

@TheAnarchitect LOVE that layout. I've always just laid out my gear boxes in a haphazard way.

[Husbag3]

Do they need to be powered from behind? If so you could make it very small indeed.

[Andellmere]

So I saw this and decided to give it a whirl. Here's what I came up with:

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5x7 blocks total as a footprint isn't too bad, is it?

Anarchitect's is probably infinitely better, but I though I'd throw mine out there just to see.

[angra_mania]

Lurker me posted this a while ago, But here is my extendable design for a wall of saws, this one is 5x5, but a 9x9 would work with this as well. I don't think you can get this anymore compact than it is now.

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[Mr_Hosed]

Angra for the win! Nice layout! Gave me lots of ideas for more compact drive trains.