Spent last week helping some friends run a Belsaw circle mill and a clapboard mill that cuts the boards radially, that is vertical grain or basically quarter sawn. I was mostly the pilot, er, pile it. (Took the slab wood & boards off the mill and piled/stacked it. Both saws are flat belt driven by old JD's, an A and a B. Lots of old stuff on display, all belt driven. That's a 1910 Centaur! Of course there were a ton of animals, the pulling oxen and horses are giants, pictures do not properly get that across to the viewers.
Absolutely agreed MaineMtnMan. I'm a flatlander from CT but really enjoy fairs, so does my daughter. Not the midway at the fairs, but the agriculture, crafts, displays and true spirit of fairs. If your like me, IMO Fryberg Monday woodsman day and fair in general is best in Northeast. NY state fair is next - its huge and lot to see. From there large regional fairs can fight it out. Thanks
My few pics don't do justice to the rest of the displays and buildings that are part of the permanent farm museum. There's a blacksmith shop with two guys hammering, an old country kitchen that makes goodies in a real wood cook stove, a broom maker, a guy making bentwood (steamed) items like snow shoes, sleigh runners, pitch forks along with tool handles, dowels used in making rakes, etc. Then several buildings of farm tools and equipment not to mention a huge display of old chainsaws. And every day they made ice cream with an old engine driven White mountain ice cream maker geared down through a series of flat belts.
