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(J T) wrote in
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Fri, Jul 30, 2004, 10:36pm (EDT+4)
(Lobby*Dosser) says:
Try a search on 'Hull Oaks'. It's a functioning steam powered sawmill
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Nope, not even close. That's a sawmill. Anyway, checked it out
long ago.

I dug out the book with this in it. Under the picture it say,
"Cloughjordan, Co, Tipperary, Eire".

Apparently the clipping appeared, in "Railway Engineering", by
Haldane, 1897. Apparently it was called a "steam cross-cut sawing
machine". It shows the thing in use, sawing a section of log in two.

A bit hard to describe. Apparently it was portable, as it has a
steam hose running to it, and is mounted on a rectangular base. Being
as it appeared in a railroad related book, I would suspect it would
have been used for sawing up trees that had fallen over the tracks,
useing the locootive boiler as a steam source. The far end of the
thing has a screw, powered by a hand wheel, to raise and lower the
blade, sorta a rack and pinion. Then comes the piston, or steam
engine if you will, in a frame, which continues as a frame for the saw
blade. In the drawing, it looks like about half the blade is in the
frame, when it's fully retracted. Then the rest of the blade is in
the open, and is nicely started cutting the log.

Circular blade, or straight like a steam powered bow saw?

Looks like it would definitely be workable, and a monotube boiler
would be simple enough to whip up. Looks like almost as much fun as
the steam powered can crusher.

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