[AT] Swamp loggers--now sawmill

[John Hall]

 The only other market I can think of is for really long timbers. We had to 
have some a while back when repairing termite damage at the barn. There was 
only one place around that had what we needed and now they have closed up as 
well.

 Just our of curiosity, how many folks on the list had (or their family) a 
sawmill? Not a bandsaw mill but an honest to goodness old-school sawmill 
that took at least 4 people to run. The one my family had was sold in the 
late 70's. After a big snowstorm the shed collapsed on it and it was decided 
to sell the mill than rebuild the shed. In my area sawmilling was very 
common at one time. We had a neighbor that also had a planer mill in his 
set-up. If they needed dressed lumber they would saw it here and take it 
over there to run through the planer.

Most of the sawmills around here used power units and it seemed most were 
Case. Strange enough there weren't that many Case tractors around.

John Hall



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Swamp loggers. A log skidder is a tractor isn't it?


> John the only market for a small sawmill is specialty wood of some sort.
> Something you can't buy at lowes like cypress or juniper or walnut.