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@byrdlip J A Do you think they would have stationary runner sawmills or movable ones? I am in Ga., and my dad has a stationary sawmill with tracks and a main motor to power the blade. He got the equipment about forty years ago from a couple different people up in the mountains in S or N Carolina. If they used something similar to what we have the hight of the support and wheels of this log looks like it would be just about right to slide/push/pull onto the holder on the track of the stationary sawmill. I also know one could make a sawmill track as high or low as one wanted.
Out in the country outside of Athens Ga., where I grew up there are still pits from movable sawmill sites from the mid to late 1800s.
My dad at one point created a come along crain system on a pickup truck bed with a wood beam bolted at an angle onto the bed so you could chain a big log or trunk of tree and come along it up just high enough to drive it from the tree site to the sawmill.
Thank you for sharing this. It is really cool to see old local history.
Best,
Sam Sutlive. @SutliveSam
September 11th, 2022
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Out in the country outside of Athens Ga., where I grew up there are still pits from movable sawmill sites from the mid to late 1800s.
My dad at one point created a come along crain system on a pickup truck bed with a wood beam bolted at an angle onto the bed so you could chain a big log or trunk of tree and come along it up just high enough to drive it from the tree site to the sawmill.
Thank you for sharing this. It is really cool to see old local history.
Best,
Sam Sutlive.
@SutliveSam