[AT] lots of saw mills

Mon Jan 18 05:54:03 PST 2010

>From my expreience you can forget about varing the speed. Dad and I had a Frick we used for ourselves for about 6 years. He sold it about three years ago. It had a 52 Inch saw(blade) on it and needed to turn 500 rpm. We powered it with an Allis-Chalmers E-60 Power Unit 60 HP. Engine ran full open at 1000 RPM and we had four V-belts from the engine to the saw. 

Thanks,
Robert Mull
Woodstock, Georgia

-----Original Message-----
From: Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 8:01 am
Subject: Re: [AT] lots of saw mills

I have found an old Frick Sawmill about 5 hours away and have made a 
eal for it.  It is supposed to use a 52 inch blade, and has a 48 ft 
rack.  Probably power it with the old 930 case diesel since it would 
ave a lot of torque and would be so easy to vary the speed with the 
hrottle.  I design dams and around here there are a lot of red cedar 
rees to be cut down on the site.  Some of them are really large 
iameter..  I have a young fellow that works with me on most every 
roject I get into, be it engineering or manual labor, and he is really 
nterested in getting the old mill running.   He wants to build a Cedar 
og cabin, by sawing 3 sides of the logs, and debarking the other.  Sure 
ould be nice on the inside.  I also have some mexican friends who build 
ustic Cedar furniture and have really been getting a raw deal on 
awmill 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 
nto this mill.  I have found a new 42 inch blade, but so far nothing 
arge 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 
ills.  Many of them are Amish run mills, but doing a lot of business.  There 
re always log truck running both ways on U.S rt 30.  I sometimes 
huckle.........loads running east..........then loads coming from the west.  

 Wood is also sold weekly at all the local farm/animal auctions (fire wood) 
ues at Farmerstown, Wed at Mt. Hope, Thur at Kidron, Fri at Ashland and Sat's 
t Wooster.

 I cut a lot of tops for home and shop use>.......and sure do enjoy it with my 
lockbuster processor.   Yes, it is loaded out with the 4 wheel AC(840) wheel 
oader to my trailer, then unloaded at the shop (IH-585), and then reloaded on 
he wood processor powered by (MM 670 gas and sometimes the lp MM 670).  I can 
o 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 
inter.  

> 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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