I was raised on a frick oo left handed sawmill powered by a 1955 hot head int power unit started turning polls at 12 years old started professional wrestling at 18 turning polls made a man out of me .

Great sawmill setup I love the old circular sawmills

I like this video. Brings back memories. My dad was a sawmiller before I was born. We still had some of the old equipment when I was a kid. We used slab wood for heating and cooking. Your method of cutting slabs into stove length pieces is much better and faster than our method. I wish I had thought of it back then. We had a stationary saw that we hooked up to our John Deere MT with belts. We cut one slab at a time and my ears were always ringing at the end of the day.

That is the type of a mill i first started working with in NE Oklahoma at Johnson Sawmill when is was 18 yrs old, worked the gun stock mill, then moved over to the green chain at the lumber mill and then moved up to the edger operator at the tail end of the main saw. Worked there 3 years before going to school and getting a degree in Computer Science. I miss working at the mill, the smell of fresh lumber, good hard work and good people.

Glad to see the hearing protection, safety glasses, gloves and hard toe shoes

I was raised on a LEFT hand Corley # 8 mfd 1956,,, really long mandrel. 56" F pattern Simonds blade, only had 2 head blocks (44" opening? ) 605 cid Minnie LP, 6 belts (C 173) 8" belt feed,8"collar,8"carriage wheels Corley edger, Blower for sawdust. Sawed mostly pallet cottonwood.Your PTO @540 would give a nice rim speed most people don't consider or mention.I/we used cant hooks or a loader. Our log deck had a dirt floor to drive on...I REALLY WISH I had a winch in those days. Your video is great thanks.

Nice mill and nice video, Lee

You know I've watched just about all of your videos a few years ago. Only reason I didn't subscribe a long time ago was didn't look like you posted anymore. 👍

This is the best I've seen so far!

@HuntsTimbersinc YES ! The flitches are placed on the carriage and edged usually several at a time . We generally cut about 2,000 bd.ft. in a day .

Smallest planer I've ever seen

Very nice video. Sharp blade, o man...

Impressive historical machinery.

Why would any good american watch television when we know have this? Great movie.

VERY IMPRESSIVE

nice video,don't get to see too many left handed mills work.

@HuntsTimbersinc Yes , The saw mandrel is directly coupled to the John Deere 4020 Diesel tractor . The 4020 does a great job powering the mill and operates economically .

There is a video of an old sawmill on here which was made on an old bus frame and it has a 4-foot blade swung by a 390 Ford V8!

Good men working hard for a living.Not like todays millenials though! If you work hard you become aware of what the dollar is worth.these are true Americans.

The blade has inserted replacable teeth (Bits) that are filed and set (Swaged) by hand using a forming tool tapped with a hammer . Normally a sharpening will saw 2,000 bd.ft. a set of bits will cut 10,000 to 15,000 bd. ft. Thanks seancarn .

@tractormaniac The video of the sawmill was shot in1999 but I am still running the mill currently just as you see it in the video .

I know that was a big ol' honkin' log -- but couldn't you turn it with a good-sized cant hook? Maybe not, I don't know. The hoist is pretty slick though. Are you planing wet wood? I've heard that some folks do. I like to dry mine first. Great vid!

That's one hell of a blade. How big in diameter was that blade? 30" maybe? wow

@christophe6079 Salutations Christophe 6079 le diamètre est de 1,42 mètres et tourne à 500 rpm. vitesse du charriot est de 25,4 mètres par minute. merci Christophe.

The blade is 56 inches in diameter , and will cut a 24 inch board . Thanks tiburon0676 LEE

Just happened across this video. Nice work. Is the mill still operating.

wow all ready 70 years a go. The time go quickly. I think that all the people in this movie are dead now.

That blade has to be really sharp to move through that much wood that fast. How often do you have to change it or sharpen it?

Either the video has been flipped or this is a left-handed sawmill. It looks familiar, because I grew up around a left-handed mill. It was years before I saw another mill, and I thought it was backwards. Then I saw that every mill was backwards-oops! Guess there aren't too many left-handed mills around!

Where is this sawmill located not that it matters but wondering that's all!!

Hello sir, what is the diameter of saw and the rotation and egally, the vitesse of charriot en m/min . Thanks a lot.

do very many people there use carbide teeth?

Do you edge the boards? How many bd ft a day?

Noah coulda done with one of these.

The sawinest saw I ever saw sawin' was the saw I saw sawin' in Arkansas.

Is it running off a John Deer tractor pto?