New equipment for my sawmill
Here you can see the debarker head mounted in its red frame and about to chew the bark off of a Douglas fir log that has been pulled out of the mill pond on the green log conveyor. Actually, I haven’t built a mill pond yet, and this photo is staged in an uncluttered, vacant spot on my layout that serves as a decent photo staging area. I made the debarker frame out of Evergreen Scale Models styrene structural shapes. All together, I used six “L” shaped angle pieces and four short pieces of strip styrene, and I made up the design as I went along. The two truncated cones made from cut up push pins were joined by a little J-B Weld epoxy and painted stainless steel to represent my debarker head. The log conveyor is made from a long “L” angle piece and can handle trees that are a scale three or four feet in diameter.
The sawmill building was heavily modified from a factory kit made by Pola, originally for Atlas over 40 years ago. I replaced the original roof and the brick sheathing with Campbell Scale Models corrugated aluminum back in the ‘80’s or ‘90’s to give it a more American industrial look but only recently decided that I could make a sawmill out of this old, neglected structure.
New equipment for my sawmill
Here you can see the debarker head mounted in its red frame and about to chew the bark off of a Douglas fir log that has been pulled out of the mill pond on the green log conveyor. Actually, I haven’t built a mill pond yet, and this photo is staged in an uncluttered, vacant spot on my layout that serves as a decent photo staging area. I made the debarker frame out of Evergreen Scale Models styrene structural shapes. All together, I used six “L” shaped angle pieces and four short pieces of strip styrene, and I made up the design as I went along. The two truncated cones made from cut up push pins were joined by a little J-B Weld epoxy and painted stainless steel to represent my debarker head. The log conveyor is made from a long “L” angle piece and can handle trees that are a scale three or four feet in diameter.
The sawmill building was heavily modified from a factory kit made by Pola, originally for Atlas over 40 years ago. I replaced the original roof and the brick sheathing with Campbell Scale Models corrugated aluminum back in the ‘80’s or ‘90’s to give it a more American industrial look but only recently decided that I could make a sawmill out of this old, neglected structure.