Water Powered Sawmill at Leonard's Mill

Leonard's Mill is a water powered saw mill at the Maine Forest and Logging Museum in Bradley Maine. This is one of many buildings on site which can be toured and during certain events during the year, will be in operation for people to see. On average it takes about 15 minutes to cut one plank and about an hour more to fully process one log.
Future Maine Forest and Logging Museum videos coming soon.
Chapters
00:00 Opening
00:15 Prep for star up
00:38 Starting the water mill
01:14 Wooden gears working
01:32 Starting the saw
02:08 "Cutting" the log
02:42 Planks and time it takes to saw up one log
02:50 Closing credits

[@gearshifterg9756]

At that rate, it took about 150 years just to cut enough planks to build this facility to cut planks.

[@DitchChickenAdventures]

I was able to see the saw run at a a faster rate. Was pretty impressive to see it go! Still nothing like we are used to of course haha

[@kurtlanford1448]

Cool history thanks for sharing this!

[@DitchChickenAdventures]

Thank you. This is a pretty amazing place

[@marlenecowett8023]

Nice video! Thank you for sharing

[@isserfiq]

And there we all thought Terry was only there to drive the Lombards.

[@DitchChickenAdventures]

Lol he had to teach me what not to do!