Circ-saw 'milling at a farm days show

[farmsc]

I don't know if this will work here or not, being new and all, but this should be a link to a yahoo pictures album of pics my wife and I shot at the Dacusville Farm Days Show in Dacusville, SC this weekend.  There are pics of the 120 HP twin Fairbanks Diesel pulling an old Circ mill.  I forget the name of the mill, but I do remember they told me that the dogs and headblocks had been changed over to...Frick, maybe?  Too tired, can't remember.  Those pics are near the end of the album.  I spent about an hour in hole off- bearing the saw and running the edger(It is a Tower, I do remember that.)  Been about ten years since I did that, fun, but work.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/melindaharbin/album?.dir=f67c

[Frickman]

Looks like you had alot of fun. I don't belong to any of the local tractor clubs, but once in a while they get me in there working. What alot of fun! Sawing for the shere joy of it, instead of trying to push an order out. From your pictures those look like Frick headblocks and dogs.

[sjh]

How did the tower edger work. I have a 27" one, but have not set it up yet. It even has the original wood with the name plate on it. I was real surprised when I seen that.

[farmsc]

Worked great.  I learned to run it by necessity at the show about 15 years ago.  I was there as an engineer(person who runs the engine, not a person with a degree in engineering)  I was part of the crew that moved the diesel about 400 miles from a cotton gin to this show site.  I was aout 19 or 20, the sawyer needed an edger, and I got volunteered!

[D._Frederick]

Wish there had been a picture of the Fairbanks Moore engine, did I overlook it? 
Nice Pictures!

[beenthere]

There were several shown, at least the name "Fairbanks Morse" was on the engine.     

Great pics. I got the impression that the carriage tracks were too high in relation to the saw. Maybe the collar is that big, but it just seemed 2-3 inches high. The splitter appears that it will not get into the cut, to my way of thinking.  :
Also, didn't look comfortable for the sawyer to be standing so high above the log on the carriage bunks. Lots of bending over, and the sawyer looked to be in the 'line of fire' of the debris possibly coming over the saw blade.

[farmsc]

There are a few pictures of the engine, as well as a single cylinder Fairbanks 60 HP pulling the Veneer lathe.  As far as the height of the carriage and platform, the man sawing in the picture is the one that set up the sawmill there, so I guess it's comfortable for him.  It's hard to see in the pictures, but there is a piece of heavy leather belt about 12-15" wide and 3' long hanging down between the saw and the sawyer to help protect(somewhat) from debris.  Also, the sawyer is offset from the blade, it just looks different in the photo.