Frame saw milling

[se7enthdevil]

i'm sure i've seen a video of one of these gangsaws with two sets of blades going. one set at the front were perfectly vertical, the second set was about 1-2' further back and was slightly of vertical and it was cutting featherboard.

 

not sure if it was homemade or not as it was a long time ago that i saw this but shows that it could be set up in quite a few different ways.

[wills-mill]

There's a nice passage from one of my old Victorian milling books about evolution of sawing timber, the author talks about the slow and steady old Dutch wind powered framesaws. He says there was a nice benefit that the sawyer could leave the machine set up at night and go home to bed, then come back in the morning to a 'free' sawn log!

 

They're still at it in the Netherlands-

 

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