How A Wind Powered Sawmill Works- AMAZING

all right you ready for a real treat so we've got a sawmill ran completely on wind power I just watched a 10-minute video of building this and one of the most interesting things I've ever seen in my life so I haven't been inside yet here's all of the lumber that they've cut but let's go inside and take it up check it out so this is where it all starts they would have brought the logs up here by raft or by boat or barge and then this is where they came into the mill and actually use the wind power on a winch which you'll see here in a minute to drag them in there and across they basically the blades so this is where it would go in beautiful so the logs would come up the ramp here and into the look at this so I've been sitting here for a couple minutes or so and the speed or the how quickly the saw blades cut is constantly changing with the wind it'll go down so it almost stops and right now a gust picked up or the wind increased and now it's cutting much faster the entire bill is just vibrating under the power of the cutting arm so as the crankshaft turns so it's just like a crank just just like on an onion car engine so you can just you can see there so that camshaft or that crankshaft changing these saws up and down so I'm sorry you said you resharpen every two hundred meters every 50 meters resharpen on one meter one hour so he's showing me right here this is a pit saw this is what they would have used before the windmill before was automated and you were seeing one meter per hour the two two men so right there this is what the way they would have had you a rip lumber before this would've been a kind of a pit saw I've got one of these saws at home and you can see the long handle on it this would have been the guy on the top would have that and the guy on the bottom would have been the junior man I always thought it'd be opposite because it would be easier to pull you know like doing a pull a ball bench and doing that all day and the sawdust in your face it's just incredible the workmanship of this place is it's unbelievable so this is really interesting so you can see that these bars you saw the previous section where he was they can put them anywhere on here with the rope what they do is they they twist that broomstick handle there to hold down the log because if the log is crooked like this they'll need to constantly be shifting the end of it so the Sawyer is is watching this and making sure that the blades if they get off the center you can simply loosen that up take a pv and pry that over or wedge it over lock it back down and continuing to make those adjustments so he's cutting straight through that's so brilliant so the thing that the feed the feed system you have is so clever so it works in unity with the wind so the wind gets faster so the wind has increased so much that they're going to have to change the the pitch of the blade because these these soft frames are starting to bounce can't handle the speed so he brought them to cut off our very interesting conversation to go up there to see to this so they've got four they can cut four logs at a time depending on the wind so because the wind is too fast they have to go change the they have to rotate the blades out of the wind so this is so I mean you can imagine so this is wind driven so it's going to be it's going to operate if the wind is blowing fast it's going to operate fast if it's going slow is can operate slow so the problem that would come up is how do you feed how do you alter the feed of the log how do you control how fast it goes into the blade because if it of course if it's cutting faster you can feed it faster cutting slower slower so what the device is so brilliant it's this cog system in each one of these teeth is a millimeter and so you'll see here as he engages this the speed of this carriage going up and down directly controls how fast the feed is so slow in slow feed fast land fast feed and that way you don't have to worry about trying to you know push pushing the logs too quickly into the into the blades and ruining something it's it is an elegant and brilliant design to years so they the crankshaft yeah so here is the original plans that they found and this bill this mill was built it took two years to build it it's all brand new but they used all the original schematics you can see the crankshaft here that that is amazing where did they find the prince so even though it was built recently look at even the floor and they are all handmade so here's the portion that I think is one of the most clever things look how the feed mechanism works now this is controlling how fast the log is being fed into the blades to get used to those shoes not a long time and these comfortable you can wear them all day I get how bad an old IQ do they leave it and there's each pair custom-made oh they are and so I feel it's really what is very light and the nope no rubber on the bottom no problem with sometimes I learned something today so they before they cut their their would they leave it in the water for said a year and the water removes apparently moved to the sugars out of the wood and so when they eventually when they cut it it's less likely to warp and twist once it's what although that's been washed out of it I never knew that that's why I have such a problem with mine that I cut from green

Channel: Wranglerstar

Views: 2,540,980

Rating: 4.8773694 out of 5

Keywords: wind powered sawmill, sawmill, windmill sawmil

Id: Q6FxG3ll-lw

Length: 8min 59sec (539 seconds)

Published: Tue May 10 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/blargthe2]

That was super cool to watch

[u/Warondrugsmybutt]

What an amazing place.

[u/Guysmiley777]

A lot calmer and less deadly looking than a sawmill powered by a belted steam engine. But also slower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDRj7Sree0k

[u/kebab4you]

The schematics for the windmill is extremely impressive, from what period were they?

[u/tehringworm]

Wranglerstar has a really neat channel. It's all about homesteading, timber craft, old tools, etc.

[u/rzwart]

I live a few miles away of this windmill. Never been inside. After seeing this movie I'm gonna tomorrow.

[u/redspartan927]

Interesting!

[u/ihatethatihate]

I hate wind

[u/fr33dom_or_death]

Where was this?