Thread: Massive Steam Powered Band Saw mill

Great story
Great pics

Great website!

Gotta love that steam. Anyone been on the wonderful steam ferries on Switzerland?

No hearing protection that I could see.

Originally Posted by dadpad

No hearing protection that I could see.

Read the captions and have a close look at some of the pics.

Bob L,

This is a great story, and I have to agree there would be a few deaf old fellows there as pointed out by . Have you ever seen timber in long lengths milled such as was shown, it sure would be handy if one were building a house.

Thanks for the story

Regards Mike

hmmm... think I'd need a bigger shed...

Originally Posted by

Read the captions and have a close look at some of the pics.

plugins, as mentioned in the caption. My apologies to Hull Oaks sawmill management and employees.

That was interesting. They were cutting some big logs there.

Cheers for the link.

Originally Posted by pawnhead

That was interesting. They were cutting some big logs there.

Cheers for the link.

now THAT is a big piece of timber
Seems such a crime to cut something so massive down
Do you know where the pic was taken?/year?

It's from here.

When you're viewing the picture, If you remove the parts of the address in your address bar, past the forward slashes / , then press 'go', it takes you to different parts of the host site.
If you remove everything past the first slash / it usually takes you to the site's main page.

Cheers

B-b-b-but those timbers were huge!! 85 ft long is about 26 meters, in ONE hit! I didn't think there were any trees like that left inthe world that didn't have a commune of mad raging tree huggers chained to them.

And that's what I call a biiiigg bandsaw.

Have been through a few commercial sawmills but nothing like that for sheer size of the timber being handled. I wish there was a setup like it here in OZ, I'd be out there for a decko with the camera.

Great site, thanks for posting it.
Cheers,

Chris