2016年6月13日 · Archeologists have uncovered evidence that Romans used a water-powered saw to cut stone as early as the third century A.D. By the 14th century, water-powered sawmills were common in Europe.

2024年12月6日 · I'm currently helping a friend restore/return to working condition a very large old sawmill. I wish I had more info, as soon as I get more I'll update the post. I believe it's a 1945 mill, powered by a 1950s D8 engine. It ran 5 years ago so the owner is confident it won't take much to get running again.

Visit the Ledyard Up-down sawmill to see an operating water-powered sawmill from the mid 19th century. You’ll hear the rasping of the saw echoing across the millpond as it rips through logs, and you'll feel the building vibrating in rhythm with the reciprocating saw.

2011年6月16日 · The earliest sawmills, including this one, used “up-and-down saws.” Powered by belts driven by water power, the saw was set up to move up and down as it sawed through a log pushed to it by other water-driven machinery. An old board, showing the vertical cut marks from an up-and-down saw, hangs on the back wall of the mill today.

Nichols-Colby Sawmill, Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts. A superb reconstruction of a New Hampshire 1830s-era sash sawmill. Wonderfully detailed drawings of the original Nichols-Colby sawmill near Bow, NH can be found at HABS-HAER and were the basis for building the mill at Old Sturbridge Village. Discussed in Penn, Theodore Z. and Parks ...

Sash-type sawmills have been known for centuries starting in continental Europe in the 13th or 14th century, and were a feature of the New England landscape since the earliest years of European settlement—the first water-powered sawmills in New England were built near Berwick, Maine in the 1630s.

The earliest type of sawmill, or lumbermill, was the sawpit. The sawpit was a pit over which the log was positioned and held in place by saddle blocks. The “top” sawyer would balance himself atop the log, and guide the blade for accuracy. This required strength, stamina, and skill.

A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes (dimensional lumber). The "portable" sawmill is simple to operate. The log lies flat on a steel bed, and the ...

Come see the golden age of the lumber industry in Louisiana and learn about sustainable forestry practices continued today! The Southern Forest Heritage Museum and Research Center provides an insight into the amazing era of lumber in our nation's history with the most complete historic sawmill complex in the South.

The Dutchman Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550-1607) invented his type of sawmill by applying a pitman arm onto a wind mill, which converted a turning motion into an up-an-down motion. Corneliszoon patented the sawmill on December 15, 1593 and the pitman on December 6, 1597. He built the first sawmill in 1594.