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Aaron: I just went through the book 150 years of IH by CH Wendel. While Wendel doesn't list or have a photo of every model of every item IH built, I think it safe to assume he covers at least one model of every item IH ever built. He does not list sawmills. I think maybe Cowman has nailed the answer for you. Sawmills have over the years been pretty much custom built by owners. Quite often the carriage hardware and main saw arbor were purchased from a sawmill supplier. From there, auxilliry equipment was designed and built from the most available source, quite often the farm scrap yard. For example the conveyor Cowman mentions, they may have indeed shoveled the sawdust away until they junked the sheller, or maybe a neighbor did. Just the other day, I was having dinner with a couple of YTers. The subject of a particular family and their farm and sawmill came up. I had lived very near this particular farm. The sawmill was very much a community effort, although the mill was actually owned by the family that lived on the farm. During the winter every farm in a two mile radius sledded logs in to the mill. As winter broke and while it was yet too early for cropping the entire community made up a mill crew to saw the years production. There were a lot of interesting stories came out of those operations. One I relayed to my hosts the other day, this particular mill operation also provided the noon meal. My hosts brother is married into this family. The mill owners wife was noted for being very sharp. One piece of pie or cake for each man. This particular day Harold the owner-husband was late starting to eat. Some of the young lads moved dishes around and ate Harold's pie. When he came to that part of his meal he asked, "Laura, is there no pie for me." She responded, " there was one there for you, but Stanley Stewart ate it." Quite sharp the guys thought for a lady preparing and serving diner for a dozen men. By the way, she was right Stanley was the culprit.
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