Hi everyone, and thanks gregk for the encouragement, I enjoy sharing my life's adventures in the restoration\reconstruction field.
this will probably be my last post dealing with the 1846 Muley sawmill that in many ways was a great part of my life, not to only operate, but to maintain and understand the complicated early millwrighting that is necessary to successfully keep it in operation.
This mill was already 115 years old when it was removed from its original site, and reconstructed at UCV in 1961. It since has run for 47 more years, and in that time it has needed 3 complete reconstructions of the head race, and 2 complete reconstructions of the turbine box, shaft, crank and linkages
Its equipment looks crude to the average eye, but in reality to cut successfully with it it entails using very fine lines and settings that is awesome.
These long braces are an integral part of the framing and have to be maintained at times by tightening and wedging
