I started the work on the new mill deck in July and after some distraction and a much needed trip to Jamaica I'm back working the machinery deck on the new mill
The first piece built was the log haul used to carry logs from the pond up to the cutting deck. The lower legs on the haul will be covered by "log pond water" and will pretty much disappear from view as will many of the structures lower ends that are sitting in the pond.
The log deck and haul drive were the second piece built. This connects from the log haul and pulls logs by chain drive up onto the log deck.
From there the log deck and the haul drive drop the log to the log carriage which carries the log to the saw which is a double blade circular husk saw
The log carriage and the husk saw looks like this