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Don’t Forget! You Saw it in the
April 2023 #15285 Page #17
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Spida Machinery’s Automated Apollo Saw—Evolution
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ack in the fall of 2001, when I was a component manufacturer, Bevan Lines, Director of Spida Machinery, came to a sales meeting in By Tony McCoy Southaven, MS, to introduce our sales team to the first automated pull saw in the truss industry — the Computerized Spida Saw, better known as the CSS. The CSS is the great-great-great grandfather of today’s incredible Apollo Saw. Bevan showed our sales team a video of the CSS in action and explained its many operational features and benefits. After listening to Bevan’s presentation and seeing the abilities of the CSS in the video, I knew this saw would have a big impact in the truss industry. After this most important meeting, my truss company worked together with Spida Machinery and in the following 12–18 months we supplied more than a dozen CSS saws to our various truss plants. The CSS was one of the most reliable and durable saws on the market then, and now the Automated Apollo Saw is carrying on this tradition. Just as big linear saws and component saws will always be a staple in the industry, so too is the Automated Apollo Saw — it complements any plant situation, large or small. Its multiple uses means it can cut roof truss members, wall panel parts, and floor truss members. For smaller plants, this saw is a perfect addition as a primary production saw or a supplemental saw cutting odd pieces. The Automated Apollo Saw works with all plate supplier software, including wall panel software. The Apollo can cut most truss members, including short wedges and sliders, in a flat 2x4 orientation, chords and webs single or double stacked, floor truss webs in a 4x2 orientation, and even material for wall panels — and then it can label the parts with an optional ink jet printer. The Automated Apollo Saw can be set up in a left-to-right or right-to-left
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