kmmcrafts Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 (edited) Last fall I mentioned about taking several video clips of my brothers sawmill operation.. Well got busy with orders and whatnot and never did do anything with the videos.. actually forgot until I was going through images etc on my phone.. For some reason I was having trouble getting this uploaded to my youtube channel ( will keep working at it ) so in the meantime you can find the video clip on my instagram or facebook page.. Probably more of you on FB than instagram so i'll post a link to my FB page.. if you're on instagram just search it for KevsKrafts.. should bring up my IG page.. I'll post more clips of other areas of the sawmill business later but anyway... enjoy this small clip... https://www.facebook.com/KevsKrafts/ Oh, a lot of the clips didn't turn out real great ( poor lighting and cheap phone camera ).. was hoping to go today to take some more clips but supposed to be cloudy and maybe rainy today.. so maybe another day I'll try to get some "good" footage.. Edit: Maybe i can link it into this post from FB.. Not sure if you can view it without being on FB or not? Edited March 28, 2018 by kmmcrafts Lucky2 and OCtoolguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsteve Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 thanks for the clip, kevin. gave me some memories of my time workin in a sawmill- quite physical but i enjoyed it a lot. kmmcrafts and OCtoolguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsN Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 cool video! I love seeing how the machines work. kmmcrafts and OCtoolguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoney Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 (edited) I ran a similar automated sawmill back in the 60's. Sitting in a glass booth pulling handles,turning switches, and pushing buttons sure beats the old manual mill that I grew up on. Edited March 29, 2018 by stoney OCtoolguy and kmmcrafts 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockytime Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Visited the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion a few years ago and observed a great saw mill. I've seen smaller operations but that was fantastic. kmmcrafts and OCtoolguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted March 29, 2018 Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 Thanks Kevin, I look forward to seeing more of the videos. I went to an antique tractor and farm implement show a few years back and they had a great big old steam tractor hooked up to a saw mill with a long leather belt. I would hate to get in the way of that thing. But it was really neat to see how they did it a century or more ago. We have come a very long way. Thank God! Ray kmmcrafts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted March 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 Thanks for the comments.. There is quite a lot of history with my brothers mill.. Those mills that you all seen at the shows is very similar to what my brother started out with.. being the youngest of 7 and my brother with the mill is the oldest.. I was just a very young kid playing in the dirt and in the sawdust pile when my father would take me over to the mill.. They use to do their own logging and the whole works.. But I do remember my brother first running the saw with a old ( not sure the model ) John Deere tractor with the big belt to the PTO pulley of the tractor.. Then he upgraded to a diesel semi motor.. OCtoolguy and stoney 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoney Posted March 29, 2018 Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 On 3/28/2018 at 7:19 PM, octoolguy said: Thanks Kevin, I look forward to seeing more of the videos. I went to an antique tractor and farm implement show a few years back and they had a great big old steam tractor hooked up to a saw mill with a long leather belt. I would hate to get in the way of that thing. But it was really neat to see how they did it a century or more ago. We have come a very long way. Thank God! Ray Yeah Ray when those flat belts come off their pulleys they will scare the hell out of ya. My dad's mill used a flat belt about a foot wide with one twist. We kept it coated with belt dressing but it did come off occasionally. Oh by the way, the mill was originally powered with a 1940 Buick straight eight engine until we got 3 phase 480 volt power. OCtoolguy and kmmcrafts 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted March 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 25 minutes ago, stoney said: Yeah Ray when those flat belts come off their pulleys they will scare the hell out of ya. My dad's mill used a flat belt about a foot wide with one twist. We kept it coated with belt dressing but it did come off occasionally. Oh by the way, the mill was originally powered with a 1940 Buick straight eight engine until we got 3 phase 480 volt power. That's interesting to hear the history of these old mills.. My uncle has a hobby mill ( right next door to me ) that was from the late 1800's.. He has a ford 300 straight 6 powering it.. big ol circle blade.. ( which is what my brothers mill was up until about 2008 when he switched over to a bandsaw.. Those bandsaw blades he has are about 5-6 inch wide.. when I was there the other day a log truck showed up and the driver thought it was funny that he was picking up logs from one mill to deliver to another mill ( my brothers ).. I guess the one mill hired my brother to saw the Hard Maple logs for them because they couldn't cut it with their mill with the 3 inch wide blades because the blades kept drifting in that hard maple.. I'll grab some pictures of my uncles set up the next nice day that I have a minute to take a 1/4 mile walk.. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 56 minutes ago, stoney said: Yeah Ray when those flat belts come off their pulleys they will scare the hell out of ya. My dad's mill used a flat belt about a foot wide with one twist. We kept it coated with belt dressing but it did come off occasionally. Oh by the way, the mill was originally powered with a 1940 Buick straight eight engine until we got 3 phase 480 volt power. When my folks came to California in 1948 they were pulling a 26 foot house trailer behind a 38 Buick Century 4 dr. I sat in the back seat and it was a trip to remember. Maybe that's why I love RVing so much. We were literally "trailer trash" back then. We lived for 4 years in Pasadena Ca. in a park called "Trailer Haven". It wasn't "haven" in any way but the worst. Itinerant was an apt description. But, I loved every minute of it. I was 5-6 years old. Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 25 minutes ago, kmmcrafts said: That's interesting to hear the history of these old mills.. My uncle has a hobby mill ( right next door to me ) that was from the late 1800's.. He has a ford 300 straight 6 powering it.. big ol circle blade.. ( which is what my brothers mill was up until about 2008 when he switched over to a bandsaw.. Those bandsaw blades he has are about 5-6 inch wide.. when I was there the other day a log truck showed up and the driver thought it was funny that he was picking up logs from one mill to deliver to another mill ( my brothers ).. I guess the one mill hired my brother to saw the Hard Maple logs for them because they couldn't cut it with their mill with the 3 inch wide blades because the blades kept drifting in that hard maple.. I'll grab some pictures of my uncles set up the next nice day that I have a minute to take a 1/4 mile walk.. I look forward to it. I love watching the youtube videos of the old machinery. Very interesting stuff. Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockytime Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 2 hours ago, kmmcrafts said: That's interesting to hear the history of these old mills.. My uncle has a hobby mill ( right next door to me ) that was from the late 1800's.. He has a ford 300 straight 6 powering it.. big ol circle blade.. ( which is what my brothers mill was up until about 2008 when he switched over to a bandsaw.. Those bandsaw blades he has are about 5-6 inch wide.. when I was there the other day a log truck showed up and the driver thought it was funny that he was picking up logs from one mill to deliver to another mill ( my brothers ).. I guess the one mill hired my brother to saw the Hard Maple logs for them because they couldn't cut it with their mill with the 3 inch wide blades because the blades kept drifting in that hard maple.. I'll grab some pictures of my uncles set up the next nice day that I have a minute to take a 1/4 mile walk.. I'm anxious to see those photos. OCtoolguy and kmmcrafts 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted March 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 I had trouble the other day getting logged onto my youtube account... ( guess they expect you to remember the password ) Anyway, I uploaded another short clip of the other side of the saw where the lumber drops down to a set of rollers.. I'll leave a link to the first video from youtube as I'm not sure everyone was able to see it.. since it was from FB.. so the first video is the same one as I posted above.. the second one will be the other end of the saw.. Enjoy OCtoolguy and Lucky2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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