Modern MArvels SAWS!!!!

[BostonBull]

Tomorrow night at 10/EST will be the world premiere of SAWS....a Hisory of saws from the egyptians to present.

I got an e-mail with this trivia question from the History channel....

What State had the first Sawmill?

 

[sILlogger]

Ma? Pa?

 

[rreidnauer]

Yea, I'd say PA too.

 

[PA Plumber]

Ohio?

 

[Griffbm3]

Virginia?

I think, maybe???

 

[Another Bucker]

Ny?

 

[cuttinscott]

Virginia..I think, maybe???

+1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawmill

Scott

 

[BostonBull]

Keep em coming.........

 

[rreidnauer]

+1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawmill

Scott

Hey! No cheating!!!:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Dadatwins]

Ma? Pa?

Your folks are that old?

 

[BostonBull]

No correct guesses yet............maybe there needs to be a hint?

if nothing by moning Ill post the year in which it opened.

 

[chainsawjunky]

Maine?

Evan

 

[Another Bucker]

+1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawmill

Scott

You mean the wikipedia was wrong?:jester:

 

[upandcommer]

Lumbering—the first sawmill in America was built in 1623 on the Piscataqua River—dominated industry and the export trade from the days when the white pines provided masts for the British navy, but with the big trees largely exhausted, Maine loggers now produce chiefly pulp for papermaking. The proximity of harbors to forests early encouraged shipbuilding, which reached its peak in the 19th cent.

 

[Elmore]

Achtung!

1620

Four millwrights from Hamburg erected the first sawmill in America in Virginia.


http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/kade/unit19/apen19-j.html

 

[vegaome]

Here is my Hillbilly try. A Fella told me once a story about a couple of native american Fellas who had a mill by the names of Quick to Catch Beaver and Strong Right Hand. He did not mention a year but said it was a long time ago. They used a beaver to do the cutting. He said they figured out if one fellows holds a beaver by the head and steers and feeds the other guy can run the back end. Legend has it the faster you want to go the harder you squeeze the beavers balls. Once they mastered the beaver saw word got around and everyone for miles around would bring their wood to the Fella's with the beaver. Rumors suggest that this mill is still in opperation, I'm not sure of the location but the Fella told me once that in his travels he came across a line of Fellas with wood waiting for some beavers to work it down. He could not remember where it was though.

v/r

Mike

 

[BostonBull]

The History Channel had it down as 1623 in York, Maine.

 

[Urbicide]

Here is my Hillbilly try. A Fella told me once a story about a couple of native american Fellas who had a mill by the names of Quick to Catch Beaver and Strong Right Hand. He did not mention a year but said it was a long time ago. They used a beaver to do the cutting. He said they figured out if one fellows holds a beaver by the head and steers and feeds the other guy can run the back end. Legend has it the faster you want to go the harder you squeeze the beavers balls. Once they mastered the beaver saw word got around and everyone for miles around would bring their wood to the Fella's with the beaver. Rumors suggest that this mill is still in opperation, I'm not sure of the location but the Fella told me once that in his travels he came across a line of Fellas with wood waiting for some beavers to work it down. He could not remember where it was though.

v/r

Mike

Wonder if the beavers perfered carpet or tile? opcorn:

 

[2000ssm6]

Wonder if the beavers perfered carpet or tile? opcorn:

These beavers yall speak of...are they big and hairy?

 

[spacemule]

Here is my Hillbilly try. A Fella told me once a story about a couple of native american Fellas who had a mill by the names of Quick to Catch Beaver and Strong Right Hand. He did not mention a year but said it was a long time ago. They used a beaver to do the cutting. He said they figured out if one fellows holds a beaver by the head and steers and feeds the other guy can run the back end. Legend has it the faster you want to go the harder you squeeze the beavers balls. Once they mastered the beaver saw word got around and everyone for miles around would bring their wood to the Fella's with the beaver. Rumors suggest that this mill is still in opperation, I'm not sure of the location but the Fella told me once that in his travels he came across a line of Fellas with wood waiting for some beavers to work it down. He could not remember where it was though.

v/r

Mike

That's what you call sexual innuendos, ain't it.