A & M Machine Shop 4125 Highway O Perryville, Missouri
63775
This year at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, I stopped at the GEM
tent and explained to the lady there that I had this sawmill
project almost completed.
I told her I built it from scratch and planned on taking it to
some shows. She mentioned it would be a good story for
GEM, and asked me to send some photos and a few paragraphs
about it. So here goes.
These photos are of a band-saw sawmill I just recently
completed. They were taken at a local craft fair and antique
tractor show near my home. This was my first showing of this mill
and they gave me a blue ribbon for honorable mention, sawmill
demonstration.
Everyone who watched did enjoy seeing the sawmill work. The
sawmill is P.T.O. powered. At this show, we used a 1944 John Deere
tractor ‘B’ and even had more than enough power to run the
mill.
For several years, I had this idea of building a band-saw
sawmill. I wanted it to look like an old-time mill, with the log
traveling back and forth on a carriage.
The difference is, instead of sawing with a circle blade, I have
a band standing vertical doing the sawing. The band cuts a very
narrow kerf and requires very low horsepower to run it.
I do own and operate a small machine shop near Perryville,
Missouri. It took me six months to complete this project, working
on it in my spare time. A lot of the materials and parts are new,
but I did use some very good salvaged old iron parts.
I also want to say thank you to a very good friend and helper,
Mr. Clyde.
