Description

The circular sawmill helped open vast tracks of land in the United States. This model is based on an existing sawmill located in Danby, New York. The main building measures approximately 50 scale feet long and 13 scale feet wide. This part of the mill contains the cable driven carriage, the saw and the ways and track upon which the carriage rides back and forth past the saw. The cable driven carriage is 15 scale feet long and 3 scale feet wide. A side room containing a vertical boiler steam source and a small mill engine that powers the sawblade measures 19 scale feet by 13 scale feet.