hi there nice looking old sawmill john

This is just an awesome video of Early American Machinery. Well done Guys. I love to watch the Vintage Machinery still working. My friend and I are thinking about adopting the Sawmill at our Museum, so we can bring it back to life for everyone to enjoy. You gotta love the smell of fresh cut lumber.

I'm building an HO scale sawmill by George Silios circa 1975. You video was a great help in seeing how the machines worked.

Watching that guy next to that moving belt gives me the chills. One wrong move, the belt breaks, or his loose clothing gets sucked in, he is a gonner! I know of a person that had both arms pulled off their body! No joke! That machine won't even flinch as he passes through.

@drlarrymilham3329

5 жыл бұрын

That " guy" you are referring to is at least 8' away and this mill is not to be worked at 21st century speeds. These fellas are producing quality lumber not modern day lumber cut to reach a quota. I'll bet there won't be a single 2×4 with only 1 or 2 square corners like we see here in MONTANA's timber country? I have 3 generations of mill workers on my family tree and not one of them has ever been hurt in a mill.

Mucha experiencia felicidades

love these old mills . thats where i learned about hard work here in this great land i was born in , all young men who thinks they are owed a liveing needs to work just one summer in an old sawmill like this / it will adjust there thinking about live in general/ good clip thanks ,

Good work! And a pleasure to watch. Thank you.

Primitive, and works perfectly bravo masters.

Beautiful lumber from this old mill.Worn but not worn out.

Nice 🙏🏼👍👍👍👍

I love the homemade loader on that tractor

Nice work! I like to throw a few sacrificial sticks across the steel bed of my truck to keep fresh, wet lumber from getting that "Instant Rust" treatment. Especially red oak 'cause the tannins will eat away at the bare steel. Also, I like the "Drive Belt of Death". Guards are for wussies.

I wish people would take video of rest of mill they all show saw cutting log..i would like to see how it's able to cut the log..hundreds of videos showing saw cutting a board or log..butcno one shows to workings or it.what moves carriage and how..i know a few of them but still would like to see rest..a newspaper came out in the 1970,a I think about 75.took pictures.one of each saw doing its job by then crawled down and took more of had log got into mill from pond and how it got to pond then how the saw was able to cut log.picture of saw mandrel and then the three pulleys and what they did..one was carriage one sawdust conveyer and then the log haul.. Even took picture of twisted belt making it spin right rotation which was opposite of what other pulley was spinning.this reporter showed the twisted belt and did very good job explaining how you can reverse direction by twisting belt.some engines or tractors turned wrong direction to what was needed..no one shows that in videos. It's always the saw cutting a log..not saying it's bad video just saying you gave a taste now slide the hole bowl over so I can really enjoy the icecream

Very very good old fashion finish I lost my brother on the that long bloody belt

enjoyed seeing the mill, nice logs, I have 3 video's of my old mill, just put one on a week ago.

Just a thought: take some of those slabs and knock together a guard for that belt.

@aeridyne

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah seriously, I'd have been anxious asf working in that space next to the belt. Really cool to see it work though, wish I knew how to build one. Been researching for weeks just to get a really good idea for a bandsaw mill and it's still rocket science to me.

@jimhelton5731

6 жыл бұрын

aeridyne back in the day those machine were run by tough men. Men with only 7 fingers but tough never the less. Lol

@josephbohme7917

6 жыл бұрын

The belt is what keeps you on your toes- dare you think you have a chance to lean on the job. Only takes 1 time & flipped on your butt, then sent 20 ' away into a big wheel. That fires you up for sure. Just like working in a cotton gin- lose your attention= lose your fingers. Sort of like the bozos riding the escalator belts at the mall.

I’m frostburg my uncle used to live on a farm in his childhood and has a sawmill just like this

The helper sure stands close to the moving belt. No loose clothing!

@gooseknack

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he does.. But where else can he stand? In truth, the danger point is where the belt meets the pulley, not the belt itself.

@vtecpreludevtec

7 жыл бұрын

Norm Sawyer ppl some college grad city folk ud dismiss as dumb hicks have more brains than they ll ever have

I like this slow way to live :D No big factories!

I guess that is how my husband's grandfather used his sawmill. thanks

When I was 16-18 yrs old, I helped on occasion only. I would stand close to the blade and grab the smaller pieces that would come off and toss them far behind me and get ready for the small 1Xs to stack them. Sometimes did peeling logs.

I have run my own tie mill for 40 years. 30 of those years I wore no ear protection (like most of these guys here) I am now deaf as a post.

Love this saw..!! On the safety topic: Yep this thing is dangerous AND I like keeping all limbs attached as much as the next guy - But all this over-zealous "concern" for safety is a bit much sometimes. Our society wouldn't be where it is today if a few brave souls from yesteryear had been so afraid of risk. I say if you don't want your hand cut off - then don't stick it in the saw.....

My cousin, in the video, makes furniture with his boards and I think this time he plans on using them for a shed. My Dad on the other hand may use it for the corn crib that we moved up to our house.

Just marvelous.

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love the sawdust removal system!

awesome guys...love it :)

Je trouve que cette veille scierie artisanale marche vraiment bien.

Yeah that looks real safe dont back up

im sure that in earlier times , the power source could have been a steam traction engine or a stationary steam engine and in modern times a stationary diesel or gasoline engine or a electric motor . maybe even horses or water wheel.

Jezus man, that guys is standing inches away from the belt. :o

I don't know of the term, but is this a Mill where you bring your logs and Mill them on the spot? I like the idea of that. Kinda like a public Mill. That's a idea. The customer could take all his waste too. Even bag up the saw dust.

amazing how they have safety dust masks but no hearing protection and that belt despite the fellows experience crazy go get a Lucas mill you may live longer makes life much less difficult

OH the days before OSHA. I wonder how those people ever survived before big brother told us what to do !!!

@SuperKONR

7 жыл бұрын

They used common sense which is not common anymore.

@deanraynor99

6 жыл бұрын

And there were more injurjes

It's great. However, having used a surface planer and circular saw during my apprenticeship many moons ago, with the riving knife in place, but often without the guard, these machines are much more dangerous than currently being shown. At least the sawyer's hands are nowhere near the blades in circular and horizontal band-mills. Driving belts need avoidance of course.

My uncle had a. Mill like that...only the belt drive was underneath so you didn't get into it...had several blisters from the board end....

Haven't seen anything belt driven, for real work, since I was a kid. Tractors don't have that capability any more.

Fuel!

Awesome..... Where I could buy a large size of circular saw blades just like what you are using ❓.... Thanks a lot

The pussilanimous depths to which we've supined ourselves saddens me. A thousand excuses satisfy this generation's sloth, the illusion of safety being foremost.

Even old time´s was made mistake´s. Most old thing´s are made good to use, but not this situation. Poverside with belt is build wrong side of saw. If builded other side belt would not disturb at all end men.

what is the lever ,that is on the carrage , the one that he pulls to himself , the carrage operator is using ?

@mikelamothesr.8998

8 жыл бұрын

+Allan Egleston; that moves the log closer toward or away from the saw blade. Setting the depth of cut thereby giving you 1x's or 2x's etc. Mike

U r not a sawyer until U saw a log dog!

The real danger is the saw

an old irland mill set up the same way

is that tractor with loader an Alice Chalmers D17?

@rwhb1

7 жыл бұрын

MidGAOutdoor This is John Deere Odell R just like mine!

probably not the safest set up - except for the dust masks.

Man is going to get sucked into that spinning belt. He won't know what hit him. Too bad.

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someone is gonna get hurt...

seems safe?

where is deacon??? and the horde???

Lance, Is this a Frick sawmill? Thank you for posting this video.

@LanceDuvall

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure, the sawmill has been since sold. But, I'll have to ask around.

@alkl-ps7kr

Жыл бұрын

This is a Geiser mill very similar to frick. They were made in Waynesboro PA along side frick and the two companies had joint ventures in the beginning. Their company histories are interesting reading, Geiser was the inventor of the first thrashing machine.

This is a great video.But it is an accident that is bound to happen with that belt,wow! I paid most of my college tuition in my Granddads mill similar to this one but much much safer.

Kon the tol

AHHH safety AHH no guards, no belt cover, no one to wipe your butt for ya come on guys give me a break, it looks like they have been running this mill for a good while now, and guess what NO ONE DIED i like equipment like this, it thins the herd when stupid people get near it

@heliodororobles6896

4 жыл бұрын

No

@heliodororobles6896

4 жыл бұрын

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One thing about a mill like that......they kept the "stupid" genes to a minimum !!! But that how they learned about safety .....

omfg... so dangerous, no amount of "wood" is worth your life buddy, that belt is frightening to see how close he is getting to it, please take care and get something to cover that death trap

They've been ready for covid-19 with their face mask for 11 years now . 😂

splurging on fuel

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@Kntryhart Hes ok tho, that paper mask will protect him

to see a bunch of people wearing dust masks......for actual dust. seems almost like a fairy tale.

man he is being aweful careless with that drive belt spinning so close. If that grabs hold of his jaket he's going for a ride hes not going to like !!!

@austral7634

3 жыл бұрын

The people who operate this kind of machinery have two inbuilt safety guards. They are called brains and common sense.

How hilarious, not a single guard or anything covering the blade.

OSHA approved operation, I think not !!! Let's face the obvious fact that 60 plus year old men, clumsily stumbling around an open blade sawmill, is not the most ideal situation. In fact, that scenario is far from being such. That is, unless the local emergency room is in need of badly injured senior citizens to be used as training dummies for interns.

Is she a he...isnt that what we all suspect really.