Shaw Du-All saw mill?

Samiam · Dec 20, 2020

I've been (casually) looking for a fairly small, personal-use saw mill for some 40 A of wooded off-grid property I have in Virginia Hill & Valley country. Mostly I've been evaluating Alaskan-type mills, but occasionally I see a blade-type mill listed at a reasonable price. Recently I saw an item on the local Craigslist that claimed to be a Shaw Du-All saw mill at a quite low asking price. That is plausible, I did some web searching and found that Shaw manufactured Du-All Tractors in 2 and 4 wheel formats, with a bevy of attachments during the first half of the 20th century. What puzzles me is the ad claiming that the saw mill has a motor that spins, but doesn't start, implying that the mill has its own power. All of the powered Du-All attachments I found in my searches appeared to use the tractor PTO, which is what I would expect. The photos in the ad were unfortunately pretty crummy, and didn't show much at all about the item that I would consider important. Anyone here familiar enough with Shaw's offerings to speculate on what this might really be? Thanks!

tirekicker · Dec 20, 2020

Hi, I wonder if this is a cordwood saw and not a sawmill. I see cordwood saws advertised as sawmills from time to time.

Bret4207 · Dec 21, 2020

Was thinking the same as tirekicker. Shaw did have a small buzz saw rig for their tractors.

The smallest homeowner/farmer sawmill I know of is the Belsaw. But it's real light duty and many have hand set and sharpened blades. One with an insert tooth blade, that is properly hammered, would be better. Even then I've never seen one for under $500. You can find band mills starting in the $2K area used, Harbor Freight even has one I believe.

Shaw Du-All saw mill?

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