[AT] lots of saw mills

[Mike 1countryguy]

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.  

 

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.

 

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.

 

If any body on the list has an interest I would be glad to share what I know.

 

P.S. and thats what some farmers do with some of this old equipment in an Ohio winter.  
 
> 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.
> 
> 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?
> >
> >
> >> 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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