The following motion pictures operate sawmills in Belize, Australia, and the United States, and each is attention-grabbing for a particular motive.
The first video, shot in Belize (Central America), reveals an 8-horsepower bandsawmill; you’ll be capable to spot it by counting the horses that drive it. The manufacturing facility is run by members of the Old Order Mennonite neighborhood who traveled from the United States to Mexico after which Belize inside the Fifties. Like the conservative Amish neighborhood, they eschew quite a few trendy utilized sciences.
The sawmill inside the second video is owned by fourth-generation Australian lumberjack Ralph Affleck who decided he needed a sawmill after “retiring” in his 60s – so he started from zero Started developing one. The plant is unique, with parts far from an earlier steam engine, a 1912 truck and remaining navy aircraft. It was powered by a Leyland tank engine. Also worth a look is the do-it-yourself timber tractor (01:30) which has 12 forward and eight reverse gears and three gears.
The remaining video was edited from leftover footage from my go to to the Big Creek Lumber in Davenport, CA, the ultimate working redwood mill on the California Central Coast. More trendy than the other two factories on this story, it’s nonetheless pretty dated. For further information on this mill, see Sawmill Tour.
