My dad's old sawmill  After my family moved to Canada, my folks
went shopping for a permanent place to stay. Although the
priority was finding a place with a house in good shape and
enough land, what caught my dad's eye about the place we did end
up buying was that it came with a sawmill. The place was a
terrible mess, but the house in reasonable shape. The sawmill
wasn't in perfect shape either.  The sawmill had the fittings
and such from an old steam powered sawmill that there was a fair
number of during the first half of the century. However, power
was provided by something a little more modern: A 1938 McCormic
Deering bulldozer style tractor which had a power takeoff
flatbelt pulley on the back.  The property also came with an
even more modern payloader from the 1950's. Instead of a shovel,
this payloader had a forklift fork on the front, and was used
for moving logs and piles of wood.      Loading logs     Loading
logs with the ancient payloader  The payloader leaked oil when
the system is pressurized. M