My family had a sawmill for 60 years and this machine with the saw blades set to cut the log is exactly what we had in our mill. We called it the German Mill but it ran by a 100 HP motor from beneath the mill. It was set to cut planks from cants usually 12 by 18 inches or larger, depending what type of boards they were looking for. I'll post a picture of it for all to see. Thank you for posting this video.
We think we are pretty smart today...but those ol boys had great ideas and knew how to make them work !! And work with what they had ! I truly enjoyed this vid.
It's an open air museum ! Believe it or not , I saw a windmill in the Netherlands with vertical saw blades like this cutting wood . I believe it was at Arnhem, very ingenious !
How much effort went into the making of this saw, when it was soon to be outdone by circular and then band saws. When machines were wondrous and men were men.
that's amazing. They don't even make framesaw that massive anymore. These can be converted by replacing the steam engine with diesel or electric motors. Many of the old steam powered sawmills in the US are now still in use using John Deere diesel engines or electric motors
Mooi hoor! Als je nadenkt hoeveel verschillende overbrenging er nodig is, en de stoom zelf. And I guess if you have enough scap/fire/dead wood which is not usable...same argument as we have now. Make money, use cheap wood to chop precious/expensible wood, profit! Or go green and use the saw with waste wood or choales...
+Trane Sonic I think he was commenting on the expenditure of resources and labor to build all of that fine and heavy machinery in order to obtain a few rough-sawn planks per day of operation. .
Yes, a thing of beauty and surprisingly efficient for its time. The alternative was pit-sawing with one man on top of the log pulling the saw up at the same time as he was guiding the cut and another man down in the pit pulling the saw down to make the cut. One the gang-saw was up and running each log was cut into planks in one pass and then the next log was loaded and cut.
lost knowledge... Let me remind that you must cross fit the belt in order to avoid this dangerous up-down swing. It was a miracle that you hadn't any accident.
Back in the day when you had one guy on top and one down below the log and they shared a large hand saw. This machine replaced those guys job and cut multiple boards at a way faster pace then 2 guys cutting one board
Reportedly many of these sash gang mills are still in use, here in the US of A at least, thumping away cutting stock for pallets & such. Must be someone in the audience who knows the specifics.
Well Sir, it was for our Museum a problem to have the saw sharpened. But a year ago we foud out that there lives a guy about 50km from us who also sharpens the saws of old-fashioned wind-driven saw-mills. We are very happy with this man. Greetings from Holland Ab
albertw27 Cody from wranglerstar visited a few wind driven saw mills out in some other country. amazing how people can harness the wind and manipulate it to their advantage
This why they built log cabins. The rate of wood fire consumption far exceeds the rate of lumber production. It would take most of the forest in burnt energy to produce a wagon load of lumber.
Its just as paradoxal as running a fossile fuel power plant to generate electricity, either directly for electric cars, or to hydrolyse water into hydrogen and use that in a car...
Talk about slow and inefficient...what a convoluted mass of heavy machines that need so many people to tend it just to slow motion cut a log! This can't possibly be cutting enough lumber to make it profitable. Who dreamed up that contraption?
My family had a sawmill for 60 years and this machine with the saw blades set to cut the log is exactly what we had in our mill. We called it the German Mill but it ran by a 100 HP motor from beneath the mill. It was set to cut planks from cants usually 12 by 18 inches or larger, depending what type of boards they were looking for. I'll post a picture of it for all to see. Thank you for posting this video.
We think we are pretty smart today...but those ol boys had great ideas and knew how to make them work !! And work with what they had ! I truly enjoyed this vid.
Jouw conclusie klopt, maar het had ook wel wat vriendelijker gekund!!!
Old is gold very good I like it ....Mushtaq uae
Always amazes me how much power those floppy flat belts could transfer
It's an open air museum ! Believe it or not , I saw a windmill in the Netherlands with vertical saw blades like this cutting wood . I believe it was at Arnhem, very ingenious !
Looks like late afternoon evening time. Did it take like 5am in morning to come out to grease and oil and load caol and fire to start the engine ?
How much effort went into the making of this saw, when it was soon to be outdone by circular and then band saws. When machines were wondrous and men were men.
Medemblik, daar moet ik zeker een keer heen.
nice, how those old machines can still working perfectly, when someone knows to care for them.
that's amazing. They don't even make framesaw that massive anymore. These can be converted by replacing the steam engine with diesel or electric motors. Many of the old steam powered sawmills in the US are now still in use using John Deere diesel engines or electric motors
Word die masjien elke dag gebruik of is die video net om te wys hoe hy werk?
Now that is impressive!!!👍👌💎
bestaat nog deze ding? ))) ongelooflijk))) welke plaats is dat in Nederland?
I guess it takes a day to get through a log that size and probably burns the same amount as it cuts!
Beautiful!
Mooi hoor! Als je nadenkt hoeveel verschillende overbrenging er nodig is, en de stoom zelf. And I guess if you have enough scap/fire/dead wood which is not usable...same argument as we have now. Make money, use cheap wood to chop precious/expensible wood, profit! Or go green and use the saw with waste wood or choales...
My diy husky band saw mill will out work that mill if I ever get around to building it!
what glorious inefficiency.
+Trane Sonic I think he was commenting on the expenditure of resources and labor to build all of that fine and heavy machinery in order to obtain a few rough-sawn planks per day of operation.
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+geoh7777 Exactly, and there was no sarcasm in that. This is a thing of beauty.
Yes, a thing of beauty and surprisingly efficient for its time. The alternative was pit-sawing with one man on top of the log pulling the saw up at the same time as he was guiding the cut and another man down in the pit pulling the saw down to make the cut. One the gang-saw was up and running each log was cut into planks in one pass and then the next log was loaded and cut.
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Geweldig!
Yeah, I wonder how long it takes to saw one log?
15 hours, thats why they didn't show the end.
One thing I don't understand is given all the hard work and hours to restore this saw, why not have it undercover
That's one hell of a scroll saw.
That's a nice setup. It's a shame to see so much security fencing around the belt.
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I think he's been feeding the fire for too long.
lost knowledge... Let me remind that you must cross fit the belt in order to avoid this dangerous up-down swing. It was a miracle that you hadn't any accident.
I thought the exact same thing.... should have a tensioner on that!
+NikolaosLedZeppelin the drive and driven wheels have a slight convex face which self-levels the belt. It's not going anywhere.
leuke video
Very good vídeo, Brasil ok
Lovely old steam engine but at that age, I'd be scared to death of the boiler exploding.
+1953Wes Maybe they don't operate it at 60,000 psi.
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Cutting edge in its day. Pun intended
Back in the day when you had one guy on top and one down below the log and they shared a large hand saw. This machine replaced those guys job and cut multiple boards at a way faster pace then 2 guys cutting one board
*50 years later*
Why steam engine not the power of river itself?
bacana. gostei muito. inteligência pura
I've seen a few saw mills, none like this one before
Reportedly many of these sash gang mills are still in use, here in the US of A at least, thumping away cutting stock for pallets & such. Must be someone in the audience who knows the specifics.
Un privilegio poder ver funcionar un banco acerradero con motor a vapor
Glad I don't have to sharpen it! really different though.
Well Sir,
it was for our Museum a problem to have the saw sharpened. But a year ago we foud out that there lives a guy about 50km from us who also sharpens the saws of old-fashioned wind-driven saw-mills.
We are very happy with this man.
Greetings from Holland
Ab
albertw27 Cody from wranglerstar visited a few wind driven saw mills out in some other country. amazing how people can harness the wind and manipulate it to their advantage
Is that Tracy Chapman?
the logs can completly dry before the machine has finnished the slow slow cut
still better than a pit saw.
This why they built log cabins. The rate of wood fire consumption far exceeds the rate of lumber production. It would take most of the forest in burnt energy to produce a wagon load of lumber.
Nederland is best! )))
muppets.... always fill with water BEFORE lighting the fire...
ok now someone stick their arm in that fly wheel LOL
nice old Piece of kit
Зашибись, за день одно бревно распустить на доски.
they cut wood to burn wood to make machine run to cut some more wood!
twohandtap ever heard of an axe?
A lot less than by hand.
must have been the shit back in the zzzzzz
So if i get it ...We burn wood to cut wood?...PARADOX!!!!
ахаа я здорово поржал.
nunca vi serrote tão cego
hi =)
Its just as paradoxal as running a fossile fuel power plant to generate electricity, either directly for electric cars, or to hydrolyse water into hydrogen and use that in a car...
asta muivien
ههههههه
Это пихдец
Ещё Россию критикуют за отсталые технологии.
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in een museum, wat denk je zelf? niet voor productie nee.
kom je trouwens uit zuid afrika? ik versta je wel, maar je nederlands is behoorlijk slecht
Talk about slow and inefficient...what a convoluted mass of heavy machines that need so many people to tend it just to slow motion cut a log! This can't possibly be cutting enough lumber to make it profitable. Who dreamed up that contraption?
Somebody back in the 1800s. That was the latest tech, once upon a time. It cut ten boards at one time. That was real progress back then.
Before it finished with one log, I think I would shoot myself. Like watching grass grow.
They letta blakkk devvd wurk theur?
...wtf?...