Travis Johnson
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You know me. I like to tinker and make things work, and living in the Northeast we have a long standing tradition of making streams power our sawmills...
I was thinking of this the other day when I read an article in Wood Magazine. A guy in there does all his woodworking by hand. All of it but one thing. I mean this guy even uses an axe to fell his trees, a bucking saw to cut the logs into lumber, and uses horses to get the wood out. His only concession to modern technology...he uses a modern sawmill to saw his logs into lumber.
So I got to thinking, a person with a decent amount of property and wood could kind of do the same thing. That is harvest lumber for some of these guys that are into total hand tool woodworking. If I had a stream powered sawmill I could harvest some of my wood by axe and cross cut saw, convert it to boards and ethically sell it as all-hand sawn lumber just as they would have done 150 years ago.
Of course I live on a big hill and no where near a stream so all these thoughts are for nothing, but maybe someone else on here can do something like this.
I was thinking of this the other day when I read an article in Wood Magazine. A guy in there does all his woodworking by hand. All of it but one thing. I mean this guy even uses an axe to fell his trees, a bucking saw to cut the logs into lumber, and uses horses to get the wood out. His only concession to modern technology...he uses a modern sawmill to saw his logs into lumber.
So I got to thinking, a person with a decent amount of property and wood could kind of do the same thing. That is harvest lumber for some of these guys that are into total hand tool woodworking. If I had a stream powered sawmill I could harvest some of my wood by axe and cross cut saw, convert it to boards and ethically sell it as all-hand sawn lumber just as they would have done 150 years ago.
Of course I live on a big hill and no where near a stream so all these thoughts are for nothing, but maybe someone else on here can do something like this.