[AT] Sawmills

[robinson at svs.net]

	This is on topic because my first mill was a homemade circle mill that I picked up cheap 
and I powered it with the PTO on my Farmall S-MTA. It had been built using an old heavy 
hammer mill as a base and an arbor. I still have the first 2" x 4" that I sawed with it 
out of a log from my woods. Not a pretty sight...   ;-)   I sold that mill for a little 
more than I paid for it.
	Then I bought a Kasco band mill new. It would cut a 30" log that was 24'+ long. By 
fudging a little it would cut about 24' 6". I liked it because you worked with the log at 
just above ground level instead of up in the air. I could roll most logs up a small ramp 
(only about 6" high) and onto the bed. It ran with a gas engine and used electric drives 
to raise and lower and for the feed through the log. I don't really regret selling it 
because it sold for reasonably close to what I paid for it new, and I just didn't have 
the time to keep up with everything. I must have used it about 8 years. I have often 
wished for a smaller mill to cut a few boards but I am probably better off paying someone 
else to cut some stuff for me. I have an Amish acquaintance that has a large commercial 
sawmill operation not far from here that I have done some business with. Most of the 
other old sawmill operations are gone from here.  

-- 
"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...

Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana.


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net