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General Forestry => Sawmills and Milling => Topic started by: StorminN on June 03, 2009, 08:05:34 PM
Saw this on another site...
Sturgeon's Mill in Sebastopol, CA...
White puffs of steam erupted with a regular chug, chug and floated above the steam-powered lumber mill outside Sebastopol.
Every belch of vaporized water represented the triumph of 15 years of volunteer work aimed at getting the century-old steam engines running again last year.
Now for the first time, the steam-powered mill will be open and free to the public this Saturday and Sunday.
Sturgeon's Mill sat idle for more than 30 years before a group of volunteers -- many of them grandchildren or great-grandchildren of the mill's onetime owners -- started the painstaking process of rehabbing it back in 1993.
Press Democrat video (http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090526/VIDEO/905262000&template=video)
Press Democrat pictures (http://www.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=SR&Dato=20090526&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=416009996&Ref=PH&show=galleries)
Press Democrat article (http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090527/NEWS/905271028/1349?Title=A-return-to-the-steam-era)
-N.
Man I love those old mills the smell of an old steam mill is just diff I've filled many an oiler and poured many a babbit bearing on the lineshaft of one just a shame they had to go by the wayside but progress has to happen
Chico
Progress...not all it's cracked up to be.
The opposite of progress is congress.
Very nice,i bet if a mill was set up using its own fuel and all the waste steam for heat and kilns it could be a viable operation if the owner was his own engineer.I hope they can feed the saw a little faster than in the vidio.Chico, I loved the smell of steam and compounded cylinder oil.Frank C.
Sturgeons mill will be running and open to the public on July 11-12 and September 12-13.
Highly recomended!
www.sturgeonsmill.com (http://www.sturgeonsmill.com)
Matt