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Unfortunately, I don't have one on the mill. I bought another mill with one on it and next year as I ease into retirement, I plan to restore that scale and install it on my mill.

Thanks, was a lot of fun being back at the mill.

You are too kind Rusty. I am always willing to help where I can. I know what a challenge it is to get one of these mills running. Just keep your spirits up and keep going, you will get there. I had lots of days when I just wanted to give up on the mill but persistence paid off and it saws great today as a result. Anyway, I can help, just reach out to me. Yes, the planer does have some Babbitt bearings and I have one bad on one of the planers. I have two Newman 8B 4 sided planer/molders. One is all in pieces but the other was "rebuilt" by Newman according to the person I bought it from. Will just have to see how it goes but once I retire and have more time, I can devote a lot more efforts to getting the planer set up and as the date approaches, I am getting more excited about setting up the planer and seeing it run. Like I said in the video, I will be doing videos on the setup of the planer when the time comes.

@@davidcunningham257 Rotometals is where I got the babbit. Eastwood sells some stuff you can use for damming. Sounds like you gotta hoss of a planer. This one is just a single surface thickness planer with absolutely no chip breaker, no kickback protection at all and open top. I have powered it with an 8 horse briggs engine and it works great. It will eat lumber. I will admit I was scared of it at first but it is very accurate. Just have to watch out for the flatbelts. I have poured lots of babbit in the past with no problem but had 2 explosions while pouring the cutterhead babbit twice. It wound up on my garage ceiling. The damming material from Eatwood has to be absolutely kooked out. Be careful. If I can be of any assistance please contact me. I should make vids but lack the editing skills. Thanks

Thanks John, I so enjoy the mill. Hoping when I semi-retire in 5 months that I will have a lot more time to work out there. I am reducing from 40+hr weeks to 24hr weeks at the office next year. Always enjoy seeing your videos and watch them whenever I can.

Thanks, its been a long time and was good to get back to the mill.

@@davidcunningham257 great to see you back! Seeing this mill in operation is bringing back a lot of wonderful memories for me. My grandpa had almost the same one when I was a kid except his PTO powered by tractor and I do remember him sharpening the bits by hand like you are in the video. You got yourself a new subscriber!

@@rudycarlson8245 Glad you enjoyed the videos. All of my family years ago had mills back in TN but I was never around them. I feel like I missed out on developing those memories but I know my son will look back years from now with memories of our mill.

Thanks so much, I wished I had more time for this!

Thanks so much. We have an edger that needs restoration....like everything else I own! Lol!. Don't have the space for it at the moment and don't saw enough to really warrant it but will see as we begin to expand the mill once I retire next year.

Thanks so much and glad you enjoyed the videos. I grew up with two uncles with production mills but unfortunately didn't spend time with them and only found my desire to have one as I got older. It was a huge task to get this one to saw right but love getting to saw on it these days.

"Now" being the optimum word! When I bought this mill, I had absolutely no idea how bad of shape it was in and didn't know enough at the time to figure out that it was in bad shape. All that behind us now and it is a pleasure to saw on these days.

Sorry for the delay, long weekend working on our house, then busy at work past couple of days. I would be glad to help, I can give you a PDF with a photo of the mill and dimensions on it if that works. Feel free to email me at dcunningham2249@gmail.com and I can email you back the PDF. Will probably be this weekend before I can get to it though. Hope that is ok?

Just sent you a response via email to you.

If the feed is too slow, you risk the saw moving side to side in the log and give you unsatisfactory dimensions. So, I saw at a faster rate which gives us more uniform dimensions on the lumber. I wait because it is just myself and brother doing the work and he is older and slower! LOL! So, not always seen in the videos, he is grabbing the wood and stacking it on the forklift and I am waiting on that. There is a small gap between the carriage and the conveyer and if he isn't standing there to grab the board as it comes off of the saw, it sometimes falls through that crack and we have to stop everything to get it out so I also wait for him so that doesn't occur either. I have meant to fix that for several years but...

I think it is Teflon if I remember correctly. It came with the bottom plates that mount to the ell so that the ell does not ride on the base and wear out. I did have to work out some shims to keep the teeth on the ell in contact with the gears on the shaft but it works great and protects the ell from getting worn down. Easier to replace Teflon than to re-machine the ells.

THanks@@davidcunningham257

Thanks again. I helped a friend replace his headblocks (knees) recently and the knees had 1/4 cold roll plates with them. Of course they were used but in decent shape with these mysterious plates with them that seemed to be placed between the knee and the ways to compensate for the wear. We set up one headblock with the 1/4 inch plate underneath which seemed like somebody had a good idea....but you had to pull exceptionally hard on the setworks handle to move with the plate installed. At that piont I thought about the white plastic in place of the 1/4 inch plate. Later that night I was surfing you tube and came accross one of your vids and there I saw the white platic between your knees and ways on your headblocks. Obviosly it works well on yours. Thanks for the info and thanks for posting your videos. You can imagine how much work you will save us by just the varification that this idea works. I am currently setting up my own mill and my ways have the center wear and was planning on welding and a heck of a lot of grinding to repair my ways. I will install the teflon between my knees and the rack. I figure they will each have to be individually shimmed to compensate for backlash as well as longer studs maybe. Thanks again David. As you know there are not a whole lot of guys around anymore that can give good advice on these matters. Also.. Have you ever used the "Saw Doctor" in North Carolina to hammer your blades? Thanks again, Rusty

@@rustydavis4740 I wasn't thinking when I wrote my reply. The ells have steel plate fastened to the bottoms then the plastic rides between that plate and the top of the way. I had the bottoms of my ells and tops of the ways machined flat as they had grooves in them from years of being in contact with one another. The plastic will develop wear as well but just gets replaced and saves future machining of the ells and ways. Add just a little grease on top of the ways and it pulls very easily. Have not used the "Saw Doctor". My blades were hammered at Union Grove Saw and Knife. They did a good job on them. There is a place right near home where you drop the blades off, UGS&K picks them up, hammers them then delivers them back to the local store. Very easy!

Thanks David. BIG help as there is nobody in the Shenandoah Valley VA that services saw blades. Thanks for the info on the headblocks. @@davidcunningham257

Yes it was. It was a long and sometimes painful road to get it where it saws like that but it was worth the effort.

Sorry for such a long delay in responding. The supports are 3'-4' on center. The verticals are just utility poles cut to length. I then made I beams for the cross pieces out of 2" thick pine boards 8" wide. I made the bottom and top flanges of the I beam out of 2x8 boards then sandwiched two 2x8 boards together for the web of the beam. It has held up really well over the years, just had to shim them all to get them level.

Not a problem at all....thanks for sharing the information

If you are looking at Albright Saw in OH, a lot of the parts are interchangeable. I think the head saw pulleys, shafts and such are the same but I believe they headblocks on the carriage are different and rightly so. The old 00 headblock ells were cast iron and they wore grooves in the bases and ended up becoming dished on the faces. They had to be machined to repair these issues and add a sacrificial base like I did on my mill to protect the ways. I think all of the new headblocks are set up with sacrificial faces and bases that can be changed out.

@@davidcunningham257 That's good to know, and yes, that's who we're looking at.

Thanks Brian. I don't think I have ever seen a Turner. Most everything around here is either Frick or JA Vance. You sometimes see a Corley but those are not as common here. Summer days on a mill are rough days depending on where you are in the country and the humidity. My dad worked a mill all summer long in TN where humidity is high. Don't know how he did it.

I only use steel teeth these days. I had a set of carbide that came with the mill but they just seem to chip too easily if there is a small rock in the bark or anything hard. After using them once, I went back to steel teeth and have stuck with them.

I think that day we only had the one and didn't hit it. We have had logs that had 3 or 4 nails in them. That typically really messes up the teeth. I also sawed the top out of an eyebolt once and that required us to change all the teeth in the saw. I got a nice new metal detector so hopefully no more finding nails with the saw.

Normally just sawing 4/4 when doing pine. I will go thicker when doing quartersawn oak for furniture tops or something. Quartersawn pine is nice looking with a really straight grain pattern. Of course you don't have the fleck like you do in oak but it still makes a nice product. I use the pine for structures and things around the house like building our chicken coop and other more utility type projects so I haven't intentionally quartersawn any of it.

Thanks so much. Appreciate you watching.

If you going to run a Brick Mill you need a 671 to run a fresh meal if you going to Salt eyes or Lumber Isaac 71 out of Greyhound bus are you do is buy beer and turn it clockwise man gotta run and give you all the tire you need

My problem is the trusses above cant handle any weight. I would have to sink some posts and build a beam across to handle it. At some point in the future, I may have to do that or get some younger help as my back ages! Lol!

Thanks so much Karen, she appreciated your comment. She does a great job on the video work and I am so thankful for her that she puts up with my crazy hobby's. I do remind her daily how much I appreciate her. Now if I could just get her in bib overalls standing there sawing, I think I would get a lot more views! LOL! Would be much better than watching me saw!

When I got my mill, it did not have one and I haven't ever seen one for sale. The scrap mill I just bought had a piece of one about a foot long left. Had it had the entire thing, I would probably have put it on along with the lumber gauge but with most of it missing, it doesn't offer any value. I think those are harder to see as well since they were down on the way below the L and would not be that visible if you had a larger log on the mill. Not having ever had or used one, I can't be sure though. I just always liked the round lumber gauge so I was excited to get one to restore.

My uncle was a diesel mechanic for years and told me that this HRF-6 Cummins would be easy on fuel and maintenance and he was correct. The biggest issues we have had with it is the governor but that is external and works fine after we sent it off to the factory to be rebuilt. The engine though has been great. Not sure how long they made the HRF-6 as I don't see any others around but it is a good engine.

They were advertised as "one man" but honestly, I think one man would run his legs off and not get a lot done. I could saw a lot faster if we had two off bearers and another person helping me load and roll logs at the log rack. Last year we had 5 guys there sawing 1x12x16' pine. I kept three off bearers running between the saw and the trailer. We sawed about 1500ft in two hours of which time also included cleaning up the sawmill after sawing. You are tired at the end of the day running this mill but we love it!

@@davidcunningham257 old sawmill videos are really popular. Maybe post more and often if you have the time. Yours is a piece of art btw.Great job on restoration.

@@amossnowdaharleyman9179 Thanks so much. I wished I did have time but being a mechanical engineer full time at my day job, I don't have tons of time to spend at the mill. Will be retiring in a few years and hopefully that will change.

@@amossnowdaharleyman9179 I wished I had time to do so but being a mechanical engineer full time keeps me busy at work. I only get to run the mill on occasion but enjoy every minute that we get to run it.

Thanks. Yes, life is busy. Seems every time I turn around there is another pile of things to do. Glad you enjoy the videos and I will try to get them out when I can.

Thanks! Glad you enjoy watching.

Thanks. With the teeth sheared off the small drive gear, it may take me some time to get the gauge restored but I will get there in the end and will post a video of it. Its also about time to paint the mill again...in my spare time! LOL!

I saw those type rail scrapers on another mill and made them for ours. They have worked really well over the past few years. I was concerned that they would wear out quickly but so far have been great. Mine had the keyed rail on the saw side and most of the Frick's I have seen have it that way. I suppose it is to prevent any build up of sawdust on a flat surface? Although, it would build up even on the keyed track as well if you didn't have the scrapers.

That Cummins has been a great engine. I know the favorite is the Detroit Diesel for these old mills but the Cummins was available and I grabbed it before it got sent to be recycled. It has served us well over the years and starts right up every time.

I use those foam inserts so it is hard to tell they are in but I am wearing hearing protection. There is just no way to saw without it nor should you with as loud as things are around the mill.

@@davidcunningham257 really enjoyed you restoring the Frick mill. Frick evolved over the years to also make very good compressors and refrigeration equipment. For a very long time the only two brands to met Navy specks was Frick and York. I was in the water treatment business one of my customers (near Marietta , Ohio) had a band saw mill the blade was 37' long. teeth on each edge. sawed both directions . Took 3 men in the saw shop keeping those blades sharp.

Glad you enjoyed it! We enjoy getting to saw on the mill even if it is only a couple of times a year.

Thanks John, may be doing another video soon. Got some maple logs this weekend and bought another Frick mill this weekend as well. The Frick is pretty much trashed but it has a lumber gauge that I can restore and put on my mill.

All of that was southern yellow pine.

Thanks Scott, wished that I had more time out there at the mill. Been slow this past year, only getting to saw once or twice but the mill still sawing great.