Great Old Sawmill Story

[123maxbars]

Found this web page about a year ago and forgot about it.  Its a pretty neat story with great pics. Thought I would share, 

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/sawmill/sawmill.html

[Misfit]

Interesting reading. Thanks for posting.

[Chuck White]

Nice History trip!

[hackberry jake]

That last picture where is says "more than a weeks worth of milling" is probably more than I have cut on my mill since I have had it. Almost two years. Them boys were working.

[Ianab]

The guy obviously got sawdust in his blood from a young age.

From another part of his web page. A homemade wooden band sawmill.  8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=narlwbTvV2U&

Ian

[millstead]

Great story I liked the old crawler they powered the mill with. I like my bandmill but I love my old frick it's like a way of preserving the past

[logboy]

I started reading it and thought "wow this sounds familiar." Then I realized I had been on his site numerous times checking out his wooden gears and computer stuff.

[captain_crunch]

Ifn that old crawler ran and moved it was worth more to a colector than whole opperation. It was grand pa of TD=14 Very sought after unit

[Piston]

Like the title suggests, that is a great story.  Thanks for sharing.  It's neat to see old pictures like that of a working sawmill.

There is an old sawmill that I drive by when I go up to NH to visit my grandfather.  For as far back as I remember, it was never used, I thought it was abandoned.  Well, about 3 yrs ago, I drove by and there was a stack of logs there.  Someone had got that old mill going again and was using it.  I always want to stop and ask questions when I drive by now, but it is never in use when I go by.  I'm hoping to catch the guy outside someday and maybe he'll let me take a look around.

[Dave VH]

thanks, I enjoyed that