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I worked at a mill like that when I was young but we where modern, we had an old model JT Cummins diesel for a power unit. They had a Frick hand set carriage like that only it was a right hand mill where the one in the video is left hand. I turned the logs on the carriage for the sawyer, mostly 15" and smaller logs for cross ties and barn lumber, bigger logs they sold to large production mills.
 
My dad and his buddy set up a mill like that back in the early '60's- we had a lot of big ash trees on our place, and they found a good market for ash lumber. It had a Buda gas engine, IIRC, and by the time they finally had it up and running, the guy had bought his ash lumber elsewhere, and so their market was gone. I remember cutting up a lot of ash logs for firewood that year.
 

If you look at the video the sawyer is standing to the left side of the saw and the blade is turning counter clock wise (to the left) with the carriage going from left to right as it saws the log.
On right handed mill the sawyer is on the right side of the saw and the blade is turning clock wise (to the right) with the carriage going from right to left as the log is sawn.
Most production mills are right handed
 
Ah, ok, that makes
sense. My neighbor has a
big old sawmill he's
been setting up and
restoring, started last
summer, he hopes to have
it sawing before this
summer. Not sure what
kind it is, I'll have to
check it out next time
I'm over there.

Ross
 
An easier way to tell if a mill is a left or right handed mill is where the carriage is in relation to the sawyer. It's left handed if the carriage is to his left and right handed if it's to his right.
 
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