Awesome to see a shed, that is a machine, and completely made out of wooden moving parts except for the blade. Even wooden gears. Just beautiful. Seems so complicated, yet, so simple.

I love the old ways ... craftsmanship, carving a life out of the wilderness .. how inspiring...

I'm not sure why but, I could watch that for longer than I just did. Thank you, Herb!

I operated a water powered sash saw for the DNR in Indiana. Was a fun thing to do. Gets in your blood. Thanks for sharing Leonard’s Mill.

Having worked in saw mills in Australia really like this old beautiful mill. thanks for sharing.

Very nicely done . Good overview of how the mill works. I would have liked a few more detail shots of how the wheel drives the machinery, but it was still very informative and helpful.

That is a wonderful mill. It is possible to build a mill with truck parts too, gear boxs, clutch, prop-shafts, differential and its tubes. All you need is a power source such as water (like here) or wind. These mills can grind flour, saw wood, run lathes, mills, drills etc. This would be very useful for people living in the outback.

Thank You for keeping the old ways alive. I enjoy them more than every single technology we have. (Except my phone so I can learn from these videos😉) Gods Speed in All You Do😘🇺🇸

Beautiful working mill, thanks for sharing!

Wow, I love this stuff! Had the opportunity of seeing the large water powered circular saw mill at Batsto New Jersey run 10 or 12 years ago. The entire building shook! It was awesome!

That old engineering is amazing. I love water-powered things!

Saw a waterwheel mill on tv 📺 around the time of This Old House show(?). The inside of the mill had several workstations - saw, drill, hammer, etc. All powered by the transfer of power from the waterwheel to the workstations via leather belts. The power for the belts utilized the repositioning of the master belt thru connections to the specific station to be use. The inside was hugh! With leather belts crisscrossing the entire inside. I've tried to recently search for this video but so far, little to show for my efforts. Most of the searches resulted in waterwheel mills only powering one workstation. Typically some type of saw. But never a mill with several workstations. 🤔 I was very impressed with how the owner(s) accomplished so much with just the power of water 💧!

Thank you for your videos! Very educational.

Respect your elders. This is still an awesome engineering feature

This work would certainly keep you in shape, well done!

Awesome video as a sawyer I’m glad times have evolved, but same time those were the days... Times were hard but simple and hard work was the common place now folks have forgotten how to take pride in what they do... some of the lumber off that mill probably still in use today somewhere...

There's a surprising amount of torque behind that waterwheel!

Really interesting. Thank you for sharing this.

That gives me a better respect for our ancestors who had to work the old fashioned way. Depending on water and wind was the OLD way, not the new way. Kids today need to know that. Thanks for a great video of how it used to be.

Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Ma. USA might still have one of these running.

oil painting landscape . very beautiful

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

Me: watches three hours of point-of-view fire truck response videos. KZfaq: you should watch this water-powered saw mill video. Me: THIS! THIS IS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!

I enjoyed this video a lot. Really really cool!

I built my own saw mill, every part of it, took me a year, Buick V-8 powered.

Nice, thanks. I love Riverwood

Very good tutorial very interested very well done thank you for sharing it

The mill is a magnificent combination of ingenuity, skill and attention to the process. I can imagine that a suitable stream could become a site for a variety of different machines without the noise and smell of a factory. I have read of such sites in the past as people became more adept with iron, seems like things got tangled up somewhere along the line.

Wow this is great how complicated is this like to see everything how it works

I love this sorta stuff!

Fantastic! I love old mills!

Your saw mill is awesome 👍👍do you guys allow visitors?

Great piece of history!

Absolutely beautiful!

This film should be mandatory for engineering classes to teach how things were in the old days. It would be good for their education.

awesome video ..thank you for the upload !!!

sawing lumber with an overshot waterwheel. 10 to 15 hp. If each bucket holds 3 gallons on a 20 ft wheel 10 hp. 7 gallon buckets producing about 15 hp. Thus a thin kerf blade could cut lumber at a modern speed economically without current eco laws preventing said stream manipulation depending on stream flow for horsepower.

Thats that mechanical advantage 😊

Funny that they never rigged a windlass off a lineshaft to pull those logs up from the pond like they use to pull the carriage back.

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Love your Australian accent!

Just friggin awsom

Seems like a capstan or friction drum would be used on the block an tackle that brought the logs from the pond into the mill. Yeah, overall very interesting, good job.

i would love to visit this mill . Where is it located ? Thanks !

A very interesting video. Thank you

Good job kids God bless you all

Lovely. We need to go back to this kind of living

Very cool. Genius!

I would give anything to be able to work at a traditional sawmill

I can smell the saw dust , back from a time when a hard Day's work was just that .

Probably very similar to how the ancient Romans cut lumber 2,000 years ago There are remains of stone water mills to grind wheat into flour, but the wooden saw mills would have vanished long ago.

Good morning from St John Parish, Louisiana 14 Dec 20.

So, that's how old farts pass the time of day and get exercise when they have a water powered saw mill in their back yard, very cool. It sure beats big city living!

Maine woods Maine sky Fresh cut lumber. I knew this video reminded me of home

Funniest part is how snowflakes are convinced of how smart they are. These computers have made them all geniuses. They wouldnt have the fortitude to ever saw a log long enough to want to look for an easier way. Much less put together a solution. People are getting dumber not smarter. It sure makes me appreciate my dog. Thanks for sharing.

What a treat to see. I was born in the wrong century.

Shouldn't a friction winch be applied also to pulling the log into the sawmill from the millpond instead of using two old men to hoist it in?

Three eights kerf?

Some bad ass men made this saw mill.

What moves the log against the saw & how is that operated?

Good job keeping the trade alive

Great to keep these things running. However, the top of the blade should be slightly forward otherwise the teeth will rub on the upstroke as they are here.

when ever i watch these videos i keep thinking about what it was like when this was 'state of the art' it seems so dated now it isnt funny but imagine what it will be like for our advanced saw mills when a similar amount of time has passed how will they look at them(if they can still function)

WOW VERY COOL! WHERE IS THIS? I WOULD LOVE TO COME SEE IT IN ACTION.

Check out Ballard's Mill in Derry New Hampshire. I believe it is run twice in the summer months. Thanks, a great video. May be slow, but faster than a two man pit saw.

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After hewing logs for a few thousand years you say 'there has got to be a better way' and this is what you get to start.

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This in in Eddington Maine, just outside of Bangor

If I don't wear my CPAP breathing mask, I saw lumber too. It's human powered. I supposed it could also be considered green energy but my mucus isn't always that color.

I live in east central Iowa, could anyone tell me where to go to see a sawmill like this run? Please

I'm surprised how little water flow and height is required to operate that mill.

Did you get permission from the state to borrow their water?

So this is what they had for a band saw mill before band saws were even discovered

Dudes, can I live and work there, please? No phone, no electric, no people?

Does most of the cutting on the upswing or am I imagining that

Organik energy

Love it

Very cool

I remember putting bodies through these things in Skyrim

I think I hear a Mainer in there ...

And just think,Thay did that so thay did not have to work so hard cutting lumber !

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Do you generate any income whatsoever? HOW?

this can run wood gears for 100 years but phones are dead in 6 months.

So unreal

man sounds like goofy

I am surprised there was no squirt can/bottle of oil to keep the saw blade from binding.

after ww three this will be state of the art

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why such a slow method? why not wheel saw?

I'am not shure, but in my mind the feeder runs not in the right way: normal he goes forward in the cut, here it forwardet when the blade goes up and the wood frikts on the unsharp of the Blade 🤔 ...

Terrific. Bit more explanation would be nice but terrific anyway.

why is it called a mill, when it's not milling, perhaps it is a water wheel saw shed. I`m just being silly.

A state or location in the title might be useful.

imagine it is 1770 and you just got an order for 1000 boards, and oh by the way they need it by Friday! Looks to me like nothings changed much. LOL. In reality they were much more laid-back then. Glad to see there are a few of these still around we will certainly need them after the next election. No more fossil fuel, electricity, steam power, there will not even be any cows left so no OX power, and a pit sawing a board is an awful lot of work. I'm glade I still have a two man saw laying around. Might need it next time I need a 2x4, that is if it will still be legal to cut down a tree.

This is how the Amish are suppose to do it!!! Wheres the amish?? Lmfao. They gettting a tax break while you break your back.

crikey....