Detailed Overview of Sawmill Components and Functions

who sun's brightness and warning man so I'm gonna get land to walk us through all these pieces right here okay so there are three main pieces and there's more pieces to come right it is Julius alright so we'll turn the camera on delayed so what we got today is we've got a double out Frick we've got a 12-foot carriage this is what the law will actually write on as it goes by the big blade that you see a lot of times at a big meal this carriage is 12 foot long my carriage of my house is like 12 foot right here are your head blocks this is basically what your log will sit against and you can't when you get the song this right here is the ratchet mechanism that advances each headlock to the song so basically when you're sewing you ratchet this over and you make one two three four inch boards however whatever you decide that you go solve for that day and this this thing rides on like a little railroad track you'll see it here in just a little bit there's a big cable that goes that pulls this carriage all the way down the track and we'll go over here and talk a little bit about saltbox so this right here is our saw box this is where the this is where the Sawyer will stand will be right here this is the lever that pulls there's a there's a drum that goes over here and ties to that carriage that we just talked about and it pulls the log back and forwards right here in front of this song right here is where your saw blade goes to and this anywhere from 36 to 48 some of them have 56 and 60 inch blades on them over here is where your your drive pulley will go so there'll be a great big pulley over here that will go to your powell unit which we'll discuss in just a in just a little bit a lot of these old-time Solomon's like this have Woollett on them and the would kind of deteriorates of years and you have to call restocking on and you basically tear everything out put all fresh wood in and go on about your business this one the saw box has already been turned over to steel so you shouldn't have to worry about anything rotten or give in I'm having a lot of problems now with my Wooden's my wood and salt box will be moving and kind of swells up when it gets wet shrinks when it dries so this you aren't worried about I'll talk about the power unit over here this is the guts of the meal so this right here is our pile unit for this meal a lot of people prefer a diesel motor however this is what this mill always ran on was a gasoline motor it's a old industrial ford motor…