Here are six photos from yesterday's auction - this is a large L-shaped machine that takes in raw logs at one end and spits out finished boards out the other.
Fun to see that there is a specific paint for marking trees as well as a color called Corporate Orange
The entire sawmill is controlled from this chair - the sawyer looks at the incoming log and figures out the most efficient way to cut it.
This is the first thing that the log passes through - gets squared up. Subsequent passes through the vertical blades cut off the individual boards. The carriage holding the log can rotate it. The large blade is five feet in diameter. The mill sold as individual lots but it went for around $40K all told - very good price!
This machine cuts the boards to length - each lever drops a saw blade down to cut the board as it passes though - each lever represents a two foot length.
These are the chipper blades that I was bidding on - prices were above what I wanted to spend and I already have a nice stack from an earlier auction.
The three stacks of blades on the tabletop are the ones I won. Great steel - holds an edge for a long time and tough as can be. Perfect for a sawmill and perfect for a knife.
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