DIYbanter - View Single Post

(J T) wrote in
:

Fri, Jul 30, 2004, 12:30am
(Mark*Hopkins) says:
There is always the solar alternative as well.... Throw up a panel in
the
sun and you are chargin'!

Nah. If I was going to go an alternative route, it'd be steam.

I've got a drawing, in one of my books, apparently from a circa
1900 or so ad, of a steam powered crosscut saw. Nifty looking device.
Been trying to find info on such for probably several years now, with
no luck so far. I figure there must be "something" out there, but
just using the wrong buzz-words, or dombination thereof. If anyone
runs across such, please post it, or even "gasp" e-mail me. LMAO

Try a search on 'Hull Oaks'. It's a functioning steam powered sawmill
here in Oregon. IIRC, the last such in the country. Quote the search and
you get 34 hits. This one may be the most useful follow its links:

http://www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer/haer/projects.htm

LD

JOAT
The highway of fear is the road to defeat.
- Bazooka Joe
JERUSALEM RIDGE http://www.banjer.com/midi/jerridge.mid