water powered updown sawmill

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

available to visit in summer in Ledyard, CT.

 

 

[watab kid]

ive needed one of those in the past , 

[Texas Lizard]

1 hour ago, watab kid said:

ive needed one of those in the past , 

For the up and down motion....

 

Texas Lizard

[watab kid]

no - for the lumber , but i get where your coming from , 

[Eyesa Horg]

Dang, for some reason I never saw that one when I lived in that area. Did see the one up in Sturbridge though. It's a shame they are mostly gone now. My neighbor here has to cut several 4 foot plus white pines along the road. Nobody wants any part of them as no saw mills can cut them. It's looking like they will just be filled and left to rot. What a shame. I hope someone takes them to make chainsaw bears etc.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I recall there was one in SE NH but I didn’t find a reference on the web.

[Cheatin Charlie]

I visited this a few years ago.  Notice almost everything is made of wood on site.  If memory is correct you could buy the metal parts back east with instructions on how to build the mill on site with hand tools.

https://www.mackinacparks.com/attraction/historic-mill-creek/

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

2 hours ago, Cheatin Charlie said:

I visited this a few years ago.  Notice almost everything is made of wood on site.  If memory is correct you could buy the metal parts back east with instructions on how to build the mill on site with hand tools.

https://www.mackinacparks.com/attraction/historic-mill-creek/

Charlie, that's how Parkersburg drilling rigs came: the cast iron parts were freighted in and most of the rig was made on-site. Hubs, axles and other metal parts were in the shipment but most of it was timber and powered either with steam, or later, with (most commonly) a Buffalo one cylinder, stationary Diesel engine.