Another restored steam-powered mill

[StorminN]

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.


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[Chico]

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

[zopi]

Progress...not all it's cracked up to be.

The opposite of progress is congress.

[bandmiller2]

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.

[CALSAW]

Sturgeons mill will be running and open to the public on July 11-12 and September 12-13.
Highly recomended!
www.sturgeonsmill.com

Matt