Profile: Forrest Mfg. Co. builds large specialty bandsaws and related equipment for industrial users & insulation fabricators. Our product line includes vertical saws, radius cutting saws, horizontal blade saws and sheet metal equipment. Our sheet metal equipment offers hand rollers, powered rollers, manual jacketing shears and circle shears. Horizontal Bandsaw Model 480 is a horizontal blade saw (also referred to as a horizontal block saw) designed to cut sheets of material from a larger block of material. It works best with insulation materials, rigid foams, and other low and medium density materials. This saw cuts from the bottom of the block. The distance from the table surface to the blade sets the cut piece thickness. The operator does not need to move the blade down after every cut as when cutting from the top.