Tour of Fricknjeeps Restored Frick model 01 Sawmill 

My great uncle and I ran a double 00 sawmill in the mid 70’s. Great memories.

hi there i think this is the best video on youtube , so glad you came up had a wonderful time john

really good video. he has a lot of work and time in that mill. will be glad when it finished, take care, be safe and well.

Absolutely beautiful! Im 33 yo and have been working in the mill running headrig and filing saws for going on 7 years now. I currently work in a very high tech automated sawmill ( the largest hardwood sawmill in new england) i hate the technolgy and lack of physical labor. Theres no sense of work ethic or pride in the mill anymore. Working in a sawmill should be a sense of pride and a way of life, not just a paycheck every week like it seems to be know. Shout out to kennebec lumber company! I miss you guys 💪💪💪

I've been following John for quite a while now. He sent me to your channel. I met him at the Paul Bunyan show this year. Great guy. What you see on You Tube is what he really is. Bill

I've been watching him work on this Mill for several years and patiently waiting to finally see it in action. I enjoy watching him on his other Frick, but this one is a BEAST compared to the other. Not that there's anything unlikable about the other, it's a sweet running machine. But this one can take bigger and much longer logs and he'll finally have a "Chewy" to help him with turning. Poor fella works his patootie off on the other one. lol One thing is for sure when it comes to Fricknjeep, there's never a dull moment and what you see is what you get. Some might say he gives "The Most Interesting Man In The World" a run for his money and win it by a landslide. lol 👍👍

Awesome video always like to watch both of your channels. FricknJeep and Wayne’s World Garage

Another good video, John does some real nice work. That 671 DD were also referred to as 238s for the HP rating.Always something interesting in John's world!

Good tour and thanks...

after years and years of sawing the Rachel needs 2 be rebuilt they will hang up and won't go forward or backwards IVE seen this be 4 most frick sawmills had a ditch w a sawdust drag chain w paddles there is some sawdust around the sawyer I use 2 clean sawdust up 4 a sawyer he was a great 👍 👌 fellow older than dad OMG 1 24 2O23

Just subbed because I found you on Frick n Jeep with John.

concrete is the way 2 go then the sawmill won't move or sink in the ground OMG 11 10 2O22

671 truck engine makes 238 horse power had two of them

Thanks man, i greatly appreciate the appreciation! Dont get me wrong, im not totally against automation... just some. Im also a lumber grader. I love mental math and puzzles. We recently had a trim xpert/ grade-x installed and that took away my daily grading expertise that i SOOOO much enjoyed 😅 thats the thing i more dislike in relation to automation, but when it comes to the high tech/ fast paced scanning system of lewis controls log scanning system im ALL about it! ❤ i grew up in the 90s when technology first started to shine, which i have a huge interest in , so i can relate( also do computer programing as a hobby). I look at my total log count/lines per minute and BF of the day as my " high score" the joysticks/controls and buttons feel like nothing more than a veideo game to me. Racing the carriage back and forth, catching logs on the carriage and racing back and forth as fast as i can through a saw that i benched and filed is the ultimate challenge 🥰 putting my hand/eye coordination and attention to detail in competition with my ablity to bench the best cutting saw i can is like the ultimate level of working smarter, not harder! I absolutely LOVE my job/industry. Sawmilling is a way of life to me, not a job. I see it as being fortunate enough to get paid for a hobby that i immensely enjoy. Ive been through Maryland more than a few times ( im in new hampshire) and always stop at a new sawmill anytime i discover one (like a kid in a candy shop lol) id love to see what you guys have going on if im ever in the area again.

You might want to warn your audience is going haywire again, deleting people's subscription list. RU-vid seems to do this randomly, willy-nilly. I didn't notice I was unsubscribed until I'd noticed fricknjeep wasn't posting anything for a few days. Actually he was, so now I have some catching up to do.

Would like to know more about that Blk walnut log 🪵, sounds t its