Sawmill install and frame raising

[LongViewFarm]

I want to invite everybody to two work parties on the farm coming up soon. It’d be great to see anybody who can get away, great to have willing work help, and great just to party with you all when the work’s done.

Nov 17th we are reassembling the 3 pieces of the sawmill and testing it out.

On Nov 23rd we’re raising a simple frame over the mill.

We’ll have hot food and beverages for all helpers. Wagon rides too if we finish early.

Thanks!

[dominiquer60]

What kind of Mill Jay? Wish everyone here was closer geographically, but glad to have places like this where we can get together virtually.

[LongViewFarm]

It’s a FOley Bellsay M14. I’d like to figure out what year it was made. Ted bought it in the 80s, but belsaw was in production for many years before that, and kept manufacturing into the 90s, later bought by Stormking.
It runs off of a tractor PTO, as low as 25 hp if milling medium sized pine.

Perhaps an eventual conversion to horse treadmill or turnstile?

See you soon, literally or virtually.
Jay

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