Re: anyone running a sawmill off a tractor?

Posted by Eric Rylander on July 11, 2004 at 05:23:21 from (68.85.13.253):

In Reply to: anyone running a sawmill off a tractor? posted by steve on July 10, 2004 at 19:50:14:

Back in the early to mid '70's we had all the lumber sawed for our house on a sawmill built mostly of scrap farm machinery parts by an old Finlander and his son in Todd County MN, and I can assure you niether had more than about 8 grades of formal schooling.

The mill was run by an unstyled "A" John Deere, belt powered with a tire on the mill end as a pulley. I was 7 years old at the time and my job was to shovel the sawdust off the elevator, I think that part was made from old grain elevator parts.

At my mom and dad's they have some old photos of this mill and I will scan some one day.

They eventually built a shed over the rig and used gutter pipe to duct the A's exhaust out the wall.

I sure don't recall any type of saftey gaurds anywhere on that thing!

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