[AT] Sawmills

[carl gogol]

Around here you can get a mill to cut logs for $ 0.20 per board feet
Carl Gogol
Manlius, NY
(2) AC D-14, AC 914H
Simplicity 3112 & 7116
Kubota F-2400
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From: <robinson at svs.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 5:29 PM
Subject: [AT] Sawmills


> 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
>
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