New old sawmill

[peternap]

My son called today and told me to come overto an Estate sale he found. I did and it was one of those that tey were trying to get rid of everything. I would have liked this fellow. He was a machinest, blacksmith, farmer and tinkerer and I don't think he ever threw anything out.

I bought a lot of machinist tooling for almost nothing. 5 Jerry cans and 5 more metal gas cans for a dollar apiece.

A generator for twenty dollars and an old sawmill for twenty.
This is one of the pre chainsaw mills hat cross cut logs for firewood and ran off of the old belt PTO's.
It has a 24 inch circular blade and all the bearings are good.

I'm going to try to put a bed on it so I can rip lumber.

To stay out of the doghouse, I bought an old Wagner Magnalite Roasting pan that looked like it had never been used. My son bought a commercial meat slicer for ten dollars that was in perfect shape.

[Don_P]

That would be what everyone around here calls a buzz saw. The blade would need a serious working over to be able to rip, it's a crosscut saw rather than a mill.
found a link;
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/D/Robert.J.Dougherty-1/nebraska/page10.html

[peternap]

Yep, that's it Don.
I thought about the teeth but there isn't a set to them so I think all a saw shop would need to do is regrind them to rip.
That's something I need to check on before I put any serious work into it.

I don't think it's especially rare but again, I need to check before I destroy the original configuration.

Like most old tools, it may be better to just save it for what it was intended.

[peternap]

While I was looking at the picture I had a little time to think about it.
I have a sawmill and don't really need another one.

I think I'll just clean it up and keep it for the historical value. It seems silly to try to reinvent the wheel when it's neither necessary or very likely to produce anything that's better than what I already have.

[Don_P]

I've debated getting one to put at the slab pile. It looks like it might be easier on the back, don't know.