[AT] lots of saw mills

Mon Jan 18 05:01:27 PST 2010

I have found an old Frick Sawmill about 5 hours away and have made a 
deal for it.  It is supposed to use a 52 inch blade, and has a 48 ft 
track.  Probably power it with the old 930 case diesel since it would 
have a lot of torque and would be so easy to vary the speed with the 
throttle.  I design dams and around here there are a lot of red cedar 
trees to be cut down on the site.  Some of them are really large 
diameter..  I have a young fellow that works with me on most every 
project I get into, be it engineering or manual labor, and he is really 
interested in getting the old mill running.   He wants to build a Cedar 
log cabin, by sawing 3 sides of the logs, and debarking the other.  Sure 
would be nice on the inside.  I also have some mexican friends who build 
rustic Cedar furniture and have really been getting a raw deal on 
sawmill service ( 0.65/bd ft) at the only mill about 30 miles from here. 
  They also have to cut short some really nice long logs to get them 
into this mill.  I have found a new 42 inch blade, but so far nothing 
large than 42 inches.

Cecil in OKla

Mike 1countryguy wrote:
> Must be the area you are in.  Here in North Central Ohio we have a lot of mills.  Many of them are Amish run mills, but doing a lot of business.  There are always log truck running both ways on U.S rt 30.  I sometimes chuckle.........loads running east..........then loads coming from the west.  
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> Wood is also sold weekly at all the local farm/animal auctions (fire wood) Tues at Farmerstown, Wed at Mt. Hope, Thur at Kidron, Fri at Ashland and Sat's at Wooster.
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> I cut a lot of tops for home and shop use>.......and sure do enjoy it with my blockbuster processor.   Yes, it is loaded out with the 4 wheel AC(840) wheel loader to my trailer, then unloaded at the shop (IH-585), and then reloaded on the wood processor powered by (MM 670 gas and sometimes the lp MM 670).  I can do about 2 cords an hour........sure beats a chain saw.
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> If any body on the list has an interest I would be glad to share what I know.
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> P.S. and thats what some farmers do with some of this old equipment in an Ohio winter.  
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>> From: charliehill at embarqmail.com
>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:26:15 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Swamp loggers--now sawmill
>>
>> 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.
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>> 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>
>>> 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?
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>>>
>>>> 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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