jehu
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A friend of mine owns and operates this mill in N.H.
Some lumber and log home logs.
Some lumber and log home logs.
Old saw mill pics.
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mtngun
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Nice try, but you need to work on posting pictures. This is all I see at the link.
jehu
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Sorry. the site will only let me post the one photo.
jehu
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Now we're firing an all cylinders.
Enjoy, Jim.
Enjoy, Jim.
BIG JAKE
Let’s go Brandon!
My cant hook looks like the one in the last picture.
Can8ianTimber
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Very cool stuff. Look at how rough the boards are in that third picture. I am sure that mill can really power through a log but it has got to make a lot of sawdust.
mtngun
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Thanks for the pics. In my youth I spent a summer working in a ma and pa sawmill that looked sorta like that.
Backwoods
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Wow, those are some thick rough sawn boards, now I see why 3/8-1/2 inch is allowed for surfacing, add that to the kerf loss and you can see why the bandmills are becoming so popular. It looks like it may be time to take the clock and hang it on a new mill. Enviro’s would have a hay day if they could see all of the waist coming from a set up like that. You drop a big mill like the Select, Baker, Cook, or LT-300 in the slot where the headrig is and you would see a huge drop in waste.
I have seen chippers that leave a cleaner face on a cant then that saw is. That is quite the relic from days gone by.
I have seen chippers that leave a cleaner face on a cant then that saw is. That is quite the relic from days gone by.
irishcountry
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Very cool! i personally like the marks a circular mill leaves on the boards reminds me of old barns ect. like the structure its in too!
brisawyer
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Thats pretty rough. I think he has a kink in the saw it should be cutting a lot smoother. Sometimes you get a lot of roughness from a tooth that is swaged too wide. The board with the diamond pattern was pinching the saw so he may have been sawing with a hot saw thats a big no no and will make bad lumber. 10 degrees over ambient temp and you will have problems the saw wont "stand up"
Boleclimber
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Having been around saw mills my entire life have to agree there is something out of adjustment. The picture of the very chromed guide ring and the significant tooth pattern on the boards indicates a problem some where. Could be a number of things causing the problem.
Depending on the sawyers experience, he very well may know what the problem is and chooses to saw a little slower to compensate.
Regardless the mill is awesome. My grandfather owned a mill very much like that mill. I miss sitting on the skid way and watching.
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Definitely, though from what I can see in the picture, it looks to me like a replaceable-toothed (usually carbide) blade (although a mis-set tooth will do the same thing). Kinda hard to tell without a closer shot. It could be any number of things really; too much hook angle, too fast of a feed rate, dull blade wanting to pull sideways, warped blade, wobbly arbor or bad arbor bearings, hot blade (as you said)...
I love seeing these old mills still in action even surrounded by today's technology and improvements. There used to be literally dozens like this throughout the backroads and countryside all over this area even until 50-odd years ago, when most moved into the towns and started trucking the logs. Used to be they'd just find a nice stand of trees, get a license (or not!), and set up the mill right in the middle and run it until the trees in the area ran out. The mill my Dad used to work at in town started out as a bushmill like this in '54, then they moved it into town in '64. It's currently mothballed due to the economy, but it's capable of turning out over 1.5 Million board feet per day. Quite a ways from the old days!
