Some of us pine for the days when there were fewer bad puns on this Forum .... Woodland Scenics makes a really neat white metal kit for a rural sawmill -- but it is HO (maybe it could stand in for really large N scale equipment in the interior of your sawmill? Something to consider)
JV models makes a really neat sawmill in N. The Walthers online catalog has a nice photo and this description: "Based on the historic Haliburton Sawmills. Comes with the mill building, log deck, machine shop, racks, benches, lumber and more."
For a modern sawmill operation you may want to keep this in mind -- there is now a thriving market for sawdust on the part of outfits that make pellets for wood fireplaces. Some of these pellet making operations are themselves quite large. The building shown on this website looks big enough for rail service to me: http://www.dansons.com/what-are-wood-pellets.htm
Dave Nelson
To the OP, look at this site, it is a restored 30's sawmill: http://www.alberniheritage.com/mclean-mill/welcome-mclean-steam-sawmill
dknelson....For a modern sawmill operation you may want to keep this in mind -- there is now a thriving market for sawdust on the part of outfits that make pellets for wood fireplaces. Some of these pellet making operations are themselves quite large. The building shown on this website looks big enough for rail service to me: http://www.dansons.com/what-are-wood-pellets.htm Dave Nelson
Most (but not all) pellet plants here in BC have rail access. Some are on-site with the sawmill but lots are free standing, with the sawdust being trucked in.
dknelson Some of us pine for the days when there were fewer bad puns on this Forum Dave Nelson
Some of us pine for the days when there were fewer bad puns on this Forum
Dave,
Shame on you for labeling it a bad pun. You had to log on to tell him that? He was merely branching out to add some levity to the forum. I am stumped as to why you wood do that. Do you have a chip on your shoulder? Leaf him alone. Quit cutting down a fellow forumite. I hope the forum administrator axes this thread.
Rich
Alton Junction
Wood you please stop with the puns? Some of these oaks are terrible! We come to the forums forrest and relaxation, not to be felled by humour such as this. I suggest you ply your jokes where others won't be lumbered by them.
And I should practice what I preach...
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richhotrain dknelson Some of us pine for the days when there were fewer bad puns on this Forum Dave Nelson Dave, Shame on you for labeling it a bad pun. You had to log on to tell him that? He was merely branching out to add some levity to the forum. I am stumped as to why you wood do that. Do you have a chip on your shoulder? Leaf him alone. Quit cutting down a fellow forumite. I hope the forum administrator axes this thread. Rich
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Dave N.
The pun is inedible...er, inevitable! Gerry S.
Can't you people leaf well enough alone. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that we have now gotten the root of the statement and I wood not encourage anyone to branch out on the topic. Let's knot belabor this issue.
You people are just acting knotty! Why don't you all trim back the broken branches of this conversation, quit rustling in the wind, and get to the root of the mans question before this thing erodes completely away? Geez, this whole thread is headed for the burn pile! A regular compost pile, it is!
I'm not sure there was a specific style of 40-50's sawmill, corrugated metal was a popular material here in California, construction material choice would be regional. It was not uncommon for medium to large operators to generate electricty and steam for in house use, include some type of power plant, it would require deliveries of coal or oil, means could be by rail or truck, some mills used scap lumber to power their plants and I know of one the shipped in boxcars of crushed walnut shell for fuel. Fire prevention was not ignored, a garage for a fire vehicle and hose/sand storage would not be unusual. Since the Presto Log has been around since the thrities, reuse that sawdust and generate some outbound carloads, wood shavings were once common as a packing material (remember when California fruit came indvidually wrapped in wax paper? Packers used wood chips in the crates to keep bruising to the minium) , yet another source of outbound loads.
I have an unusual lumber mill operation, it exist only to to supply shook and wood shavings, shook was a cheap grade of lumber that comprised packing crates used by the citrus packing industry, thus finished lumber is an inbound load in my scenerio, my mill building is quite large at 3 X 5 feet with two outbound tracks and one receiving track that penetrates the plant structure.
Dave
Took me a while, but I finally twigged to the fact that you guys are sustaining a pun.
Hubris is strictly against forum policy. Now, if each one of you backs off and leaves, you'll find you have been barking up the wrong post, and we can all get to the root of the matter.
Quote "I think the finer details would be scarce in N scale."
Republic Locomotive Works specializes in N scale logging, INCLUDING the finer details. Want to buy an N scale buzzsaw blade. I you are an N scale person, you could go to my Hervil Saw and Hardware Store in the fictitious town of Johnston, Texas (except that I have dismantled my East Texas layout.)
Seriously, I bought a little etched-metal strut of logging parts from Republic even though most of the hand-operated saw did not really fit my 1957 era. Decided I could use them as relics on display outside the saw shop. But you could use them to build a saw.
Someone mentioned in-plant electrical generating unit. Here is one in a creosote treating plant in Conroe, Texas ca 1982. Burned scrap and sawdust, made electricity and steam. Plant now all gone bye-bye.
Whew, I thought for a time some of us were barking up the wrong tree talking about the way things cut in those days. Ahem, I just had to put my own notch on the long pile so others can buck it. (Trim it of limbs and such)
And here I sit chained to the computer entranced by the whine of the saw making short work of very large timber.