Dirty Jobs is showing Sciples Mill in Kemper County, MS this moment on Discovery

fishpharmer · November 09, 2010, 09:07:08 PM

On Discovery Channel now if your interested...

Mill was built before MS was a State.

They are making cornmeal.

fishpharmer · November 09, 2010, 09:38:06 PM

That segment is over. Anyone see it? Like a living history museum. A lot of MS is like that. 8)

sandhills · November 09, 2010, 09:41:33 PM

I missed most of it but really like the honor bar. When I went to Alaska years ago we went to a sawmill/lumberyard that was the same, you took what you came for and left the money in the office, nobody was around.

Jeff · November 09, 2010, 09:43:19 PM

I've got it set to record later tonight. Watching dancing with the stars right now. ;D

Tom · November 11, 2010, 11:47:56 AM

I watched it. Mike Rowe is some of the best TV around. His show, Dirty Jobs, has enlightened and educated a lot of folks.

It amazes me, the power of the turbine in a mill. The first one I ever saw was in that sawmill that Jeff took me to see, North of him, by the Big Mac. That one was driving an up/down saw blade and log carriage. This one is driving stones that must weigh tons.

My idea of a water wheel before that was an "overshot", though I'd heard of "undershot" mills.

There is a lot of history in this country built around mills of all sorts, and the rivers and mill-ponds that drove them.

Jeff · November 11, 2010, 02:31:40 PM

I got a chance to watch my recording before heading up here to the cabin. Anybody notice the circle saw milll there? I was hoping they would run it too. I'll bet it was powered by that same turbine.