[AT] Swamp loggers--now sawmill

[charliehill]

We didn't have a saw mill in the family.  My grand father might have had one 
before I came along but  I'm not sure.
I know he timbered and cleared his own land and built his own house and 
barns.  It would stand to reason that he might have sawed his own lumber.

There used to be lots of small saw mills near where I grew up and one, about 
10 miles north, stayed in business until the late 70's or mid 80's and shut 
down.  I was up that way a couple of months ago and noticed someone had 
opened up another mill on that site.  I didn't have time to stop and 
couldn't tell what sort of saw they had but the yard was full of logs and a 
couple of trucks were there unloading.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Swamp loggers--now sawmill


> 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>
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> 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.
>
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