GrandFathers Old Mill

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FredH

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Here are a couple of pictures of my Grandfathers old Logging mill that my Dad and Uncles worked in .

First is a side photo from outside looking at old cable cat they used for skidding and the set of wheels they had behind cat to lift the ends . ( I still have that set of wheels , actually the entire set-up except for the cat ) . Pardon the poor scan , actually the pictures are so old , I really had to work just to get these .

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This next photo is inside the mill looking out with saw on the left .

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We are still finding old photo's like this , so may update ?? The set of wheels , I am going to mount on a piece of rail iron that will be cemented into the ground vertically . Then am going to cut one of the old 1" chokers down so that I can weld to the rail iron , run it back and up over the roller , then down to a 6' or so length of oak with the choker set on it .

Fred H.
 
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Thanks for posting... love seeing old mill pictures.

My distant cousins had a family mill for grain... the grandfather kept it immaculate... after he died... people from the historical society came around... a tree drop in a storm the cousins took it apart... they said it was just getting to be too much having strangers underfoot...
 
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Thanks for the photos. I'd heard of the two bladed mills but, don't think I'd seen one before now.
 
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Great post, I enjoyed the pictures.
 
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In the east there'd be no call for a two blade saw mill- the trees aren't big enough. We had a single blade set up in the 1950's. We'd set up in a state forest on a mountain side. Use a crawler and run every thing off a power unit. The boards were sawn, stacked with spacers and taken to another mill on a flat bed truck.

Great pictures!
 

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