5 hours ago
Thanks Greg. This will be a fun one I'm sure.
I built the nine foundation assemblies using a photocopied set of the plans to build a jig.
and I made a plywood base to build it all on. I painted the base in a tan brown and added Woodland Scenics blended earth ground cover as a basic scenery primer to build on.
I glued the foundations to the base. The plans come with a spacing template. to keep the foundations straight I stretched a rubber band around the base a little more than an inch from the edge to give me a non-permanent straight line.
Then I added the sawdust chain. This was used to drag sawdust out from under the main saw while the mill was in operation. There is a pulley under the mill where the saw will go and the other pulley attached to the tree stump. I theaded the chain around the two pulleys.
And then I added sawdust and wod chips around the chain and a pile by the stump. Easier to do now than later.
I also discouvered that the floor planking was missing as well but I was able the find some scale 2X10 that was almost the same size. I'm starting to wonder just how much of this project I'm going to have to fabricate myself.
I've stopped for now as I'm also missing some of the carridge track and will have to make that myself as well.
I built the nine foundation assemblies using a photocopied set of the plans to build a jig.
and I made a plywood base to build it all on. I painted the base in a tan brown and added Woodland Scenics blended earth ground cover as a basic scenery primer to build on.
I glued the foundations to the base. The plans come with a spacing template. to keep the foundations straight I stretched a rubber band around the base a little more than an inch from the edge to give me a non-permanent straight line.
Then I added the sawdust chain. This was used to drag sawdust out from under the main saw while the mill was in operation. There is a pulley under the mill where the saw will go and the other pulley attached to the tree stump. I theaded the chain around the two pulleys.
And then I added sawdust and wod chips around the chain and a pile by the stump. Easier to do now than later.
I also discouvered that the floor planking was missing as well but I was able the find some scale 2X10 that was almost the same size. I'm starting to wonder just how much of this project I'm going to have to fabricate myself.
I've stopped for now as I'm also missing some of the carridge track and will have to make that myself as well.