Jenny, No, this is your first response. I love seeing old historic things such as this that still work. I find it very cool. In October during the Country Living Fair, maybe they'll be running the mill for longer periods of time. If so I'll make a longer video than this one. When I used to work there I used to get to see the mill run pretty often. And that was before the work was done to it that I described earlier. It's so cool to live so close. Barry
--- On Sat, 8/1/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Video: Batsto, NJ water-powered sawmill To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 5:46 PM Barry, Did I respond to this already? I really like seeing this demonstration. I've wandered through many abandoned mills and wondered how they worked. I particularly love visiting the old Shaker village mills. Jenny -----Original Message----- From: Barry Caselli <[email protected]> To: ENTS <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 3:32 pm Subject: [ENTS] Video: Batsto, NJ water-powered sawmill ENTS, The recently posted video of old time lumbering reminded me of this video I made a couple weeks ago at Batsto, of the water-powered sawmill of 1882. I forgot to let the group know about this video. It's only a minute and a half, but it shows a lot. First the guy cuts a board off a big timber, using the main saw. Then he goes to the right side of the building, a little to the back, to the shingle machine, where there is a previously cut block of wood, which he cut a few shingles from. Meanwhile the machine I got close to with the camera, on the right, that's the planer, which he didn't demonstrate that time. The water turbine was replaced a few years ago, and the water raceway under the building was dredged of silt and so on, and then lined with wood. The water comes from the dam at the lake. Although the dam has been replaced once or twice over the years, the lake dates to the mid 18th century. Oh, and I believe he was cutting Pitch Pine, if memory serves. Anyway, hope you find this at least a little interesting. Don't forget to read the description on the right side of the page. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-P3VJkDpU Barry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
