Like Loren says, that was a pretty common method of powering small mills on
the coast.

When I lived in Hope, BC there was a mill up near Dogwood with a two door
'55 Chevy 40 or 50 feet away with the back axle driving a long flat leather
belt powering a wickedly huge circular saw.

Savagely dangerous on all counts, like all facets of logging in those days,
but picturesque.

On 6/22/07, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> RE: recall an (Indiana Jones?) movie where the bad guys had a hideout out
> in the woods.  They had taken an old pickup truck, put the back end up
> on blocks, and installed a wheel with no tire on it.  There was a flat
> leather belt looped around this wheel that went to another pulley that
> in turn drove a water pump or generator or something.
>
> Not just movies, a common setup for many things in years past.  I recall
> seeing a portable sawmill that was driven by a jacked up pickup truck when
> I
> was a kid.  I'm sure that this is still a power source in many parts of
> the
> world.  Probably wouldn't work very well with a Syncro though....
>

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