sawmills
Log cutting facilities
Sawmills is the plural of sawmill, a facility where logs are cut into lumber.
The term covers both the building and the machinery inside it—large circular or band saws that slice timber into boards of standard dimensions.
The old sawmills along the river employed half the town.
Sawmill towns often grew around logging operations, declining when forests were depleted.
Sawn wood for building
- timberWood for construction
- loggingRecording system events
- forestryManaging wooded land
- millworkFactory-made wooden components
boards · planks · woodworking · pulp · plywood · veneer · wood processing · timber industry
Dammed water powering machinery
- millraceChannel driving water wheels
- waterwheelRiver-powered rotating mechanism
- flumeConstructed water channel
- damWater-holding barrier
sluice · spillway · penstock · turbine · gristmill · millstream · headrace · tailrace
Looped-blade cutting machine
- bladeFlat cutting edge
- carriageWheeled passenger vehicle
- debarkerMachine removing tree skin
- edgerTool for neat borders
planer · headrig · resaw · conveyor · cant · slab · chipper · stacker
Dividing via sharp edge
- debarkingStripping bark from logs
- edgingDecorative border material
- trimmingCutting away excess
- dryingMoisture removal process
grading · stacking · sorting · planing · ripping · crosscutting · curing · seasoning
Two-person timber cutter
- steam-poweredOperated by heated vapor
- water-poweredOperated by flowing liquid
- frontierEdge of settlement
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
settlement · colonial · industrial revolution · company town
lumber
Sawn wood for building
millwork · boards · planks · woodworking · pulp · plywood · veneer · wood processing · timber industry · lumberyards
millpond
Dammed water powering machinery
- millraceChannel driving water wheels
- waterwheelRiver-powered rotating mechanism
- flumeConstructed water channel
dam · sluice · spillway · penstock · turbine · gristmill · millstream · headrace · tailrace · water-powered
bandsaw
Looped-blade cutting machine
edger · planer · headrig · resaw · conveyor · cant · slab · chipper · stacker · sorter
cutting
Dividing via sharp edge
drying · grading · stacking · sorting · planing · ripping · crosscutting · curing · seasoning · air drying
whipsaw
Two-person timber cutter
- steam-poweredOperated by heated vapor
- water-poweredOperated by flowing liquid
- frontierEdge of settlement
pioneer · settlement · colonial · industrial revolution · company town
- millsgristmills, windmills, watermills
- forestrysilviculture, forests, forestry, reforestation, timber
- Forestry Businesses
- Industrial Historyfactories, coal mines, power stations, gasworks, forges
- wood industrieslumber yards
- heavy industrysteel production, steel industry, steelmaking, smelters, foundries
sawmillsforests
Densely treed land areas
timberlands · tree plantations · lumber yards · paper mills · woodlands
sawmillstree plantations
Areas for cultivating timber
arboretums · nature preserves · national forests · old-growth forests · seed banks
- sawmill townSettlement centered on cutting lumber