On 22/08/2019 2:14 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote:
Shingle mill is just a horizontal sawmill with shorter bolts. Oh, and thick and thin is desired, not the product of a wornout mill and a mediocre sawyer. THe old guy who sawed most of my logs was a good sawyer with a worn out mill.
My father built his own shingle mill not long before his demise. I assume it went with the rest of the mill equipment when he sold it.
It was a small simple unit that required one to push the block of wood through the saw blade. There was a sort of toggle that shifted the block back and forth to cut fairly uniform angled shingles. I think he had it set so that it cut a bit thicker on one direction than the other so that the shingles, when nailed on, were staggered.
I never ran it or actually saw him run it as by the time he built it, I had moved away. I remember him proudly showing me the contraption but not much more about it.
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