No fair ... lol!

Haha

I like it. Know why it’s clean, good clean fun! No body gets hurt

All the wood at that place is cut in that mill, it takes minutes

Hey at least it can work 24/7 and not take breaks haha.

Thank for comments. We have a smaller water-powered sash sawmill at Leonard's Mills in Bradley, Maine. It took volunteers many years to get it running properly. Here is a video of it sawing lumber last weekend: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZakdbuI18DWeGQ.html

The other reason for the change in size is the change in the whole sawmilling industry, back when sawmills like this were popular the wood would be transported through the water and often times sit in the water up to a year, as a result of this the way the wood dries was very different meaning it would stay the same size as it is milled exactly, today 2x4 lumber is cut to approx 2x4 then kiln dried, and warps and twists in this process which requires finishing to bring to a useable piece of lumber (less than 2x4)

iliketobuildstuff....Thanks for the information. So...if today's mills know that a kiln dried 2 x 4 will actually come out at 1 1/2 x 3 1/2, then they could just as easily start with a larger dimension timber and have it finished to a true 2 x 4. But if they did that, they would not get as much profit out of a log. Yea, sounds rather cynical, but that's the way the almighty 'bottom line' philosophy is today.

It is not a law that they have to be slower. Making them go really fast would just wear things out faster. But there are other ways such as increasing the number of blades so that you can cut the same amount of wood at one time, but by using multiple saws.

iliketobuildstuff I work at a saw mill, and trust me, we aren’t trying to scam consumers. A modern 2x4 is 1 1/2” by 3 1/2”. Thats the international standard for construction. If mills started cranking out full 2x4’s, carpenters would have to learn a new scale for laying out their frames. I know every saw mill is different, but at ours, me recycle all of our waste cuts, either to mulch, chips, or firewood, so we aren’t really concerned about squeezing the most we can out of every log.

So milling was a gateway trade?

Where is this at??

This is crazy i live in NB

Thank you for your comment. I volunteer at Leonard's Mills in Bradley, Maine where we have a similar but smaller water powered sawmill that we run in the summer. It is a joy to work with. Come visit sometime if you have a chance. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hZiWeLanv5_af5s.html

Thanks for your comment. We have a similar water-powered sawmill at Leonard's Mills in Bradley, Maine. We just posted a description of the technical details you might enjoy: www.maineforestandloggingmuseum.org/…/Leonards-Mills…

Thanks for the advice. We have a similar sawmill at the Maine Forest and Logging Museum in Maine with wooden gears. The teeth appear to be rock maple and are holding up well.

not really primitive as such, it's actually built through education/knowledge. primitive would be how the American Indians made arrow-heads. *being square, pardon me.

Kyle Bittle not primitive at all there are wheels and axels , inclined plans and levers on the Space Shuttle......

i wouldnt really call it primitive. we use the same technology now in wood shop tools. the only actual difference is the source of rotation/torque. one uses a water wheel and current tools use an electric motor. outside of that the designs havent really changed in basic design in millennia. open up any lathe some time youll see even now you can run them off any belt driven system.

In what world is this primitive

Thanks for your comment. You can see another water powered sawmill running this summer at Leonard's Mills in Bradley, Maine. Here is a link to their website: www.maineforestandloggingmuseum.org/

And any wood is good for the o. Lady

TilDeath1776 US Surely not soft wood, wouldn't only hard wood be of use in this application.

hickory is still the best handle wood though

The best part is free power.

They are not forced to sit at a desk or assembly line all day, attend useless meetings, bad lighting, sick buildings, with people that don't like each other and the constant threat of losing your job due to office politics and an ass-kissing middle manager looking to get promoted by any means necessary.

@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 Well said 👍

Guns don't kill people but sawmills with a gun do.

I don't think it would really been seen as a miracle, seeing as how waterwheels have been around for a couple thousand years.

@@Lestat3721 Hey doofus, these waterwheel-powered sawmills haven't been around for a couple thousand years and so it's obvious to anyone with common sense to see where T Wal was coming from

@@get-the-lead-out.4593 That particular one, no, but by the time this particular one was made, they were already in use for a couple thousand years. It'd be like someone calling the new Ford car a miracle, because it is the new model.

@@Lestat3721 Huh? What? lol well I'm not trying to be mean but I an all seriousness you got your head shoved a little much up your butt....you're now saying no not that particular water-powered saw mill, when it's that particular saw mill being the one that is the whole focus of T Wal's comment and the particular one being the point here as well ...and as for your astray analogy of the Ford car that youre using to back up your logic, there are in FACT times that car manufactures including Ford will bring out a new model that has totally amazing technology, features, designs, etc etc and yes called or looked at as a miracle by MILLIONS of advertisements, magazine articles, news headlines, and then by millions of people and one reason being that although the car itself is no longer seen by 99% of people as a miracle, the technology, features, designs, etc etc that have been developed for them are often seen as a miracle. Another important thing to keep in mind is that T Wal's comment is based on the people's perspective back 400 years ago who many of them would see this as a miracle, and so you have to imagine back then how they didn't have all these ways to see things all around the world to see/know about all the other waterwheel saw mills that may have been built with the same things. They had horse and buggy style transportation and so wasn't like they took vacations to go see a bunch of them whereby being desensitized to there miracle-like attributes , and thus when this saw mill was built, it was something large, amazing, fascinating, new or at least newer, and yes even a miracle or at least in a sense a miracle especially when the people knew how much their town's saw mill would provide the much needed lumber for them right where they could have easy access to it and could build their town's other needs from the revenue it created...and also so no more traveling far to other towns to get lumber or having the labor-intensive task of making their own with basic tools in comparison to having a saw mill, etc etc

They couldn't have opened it 400 years ago because they didn't have electric water pumps like this mill uses.

Have seen this indexing ratchet on other mills including one in the Maine State Museum but unsure when it was first developed.

Yes, this mill runs several times a day during the summer. You can check the King's Landing website for times.

Pit saws using 2 men were used previously to make lumber: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLCVlLKAxK-Zgmw.html

wow. thank you.

Where’s this mill at? I’d like to visit.

This mill is a recreation to show the importance of water-powered mills in the past. Maine had 2000 water powered mills in 1850.

@@herbcrosbyThat makes more sense. Seems like an incredibly slow process but I guess its innovative and obviously got the job done.

I don't think the feed was set very fast for the sample board

7 months later...... NO...!

its slow but allows the workers to have constant coffee breaks

My question exactly!

They just grew a new tree the size of board they needed. On a more serious side note, definitely very cool and looking at the swarf it seems evident that the feed rate is set really low.

It is for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ...!!! ...You asshole...! Obviously, the original mill in those days was installed in the upstream ...!

@@potatosalad5355 damn why so agressive. Its a valid question.

@@sullivanpecharka3830 Exactly... no one needs to be so hard on someone else just for asking a question that they sincerely want to know and not just goofing around with it .

It is bizarre as the whole Western World. To pump water up the hill - to use water fall to turn the wheel. God speed!

Originally there was probably a water source higher than the mill to replenish the pond. Later, the pumps may have been steam powered, and still later powered by one or two stationary engines probably powered by gasoline.

It was not Maine or even the United States at that time it was Acadia.

Kings Landing is located in Prince William, New Brunswick: kingslanding.nb.ca

yeah but it would use more if the log was bigger !

Does your 17th century automated saw engage its whole length

Yes, this saw only cuts on the downstroke. Rotary saw blades followed that cut continuously..

King's Landing is in New Brunswick, Canada. Here is a link to their website: kingslanding.nb.ca/

You should try it by hand ...

steam has lots of power when you look at those pulleys and reduced gear ratios that log is nothing to the power of that drive, when you look at the steam expanding 1 to 1700 of its original volume

recently saw a portable where the cut over 5,000 board feet in a day. go look at "acorn to Arabella" on youtube