Power for the sawmill might come from several sources. In my case, it's via a water wheel. I built a wooden wheel from scratch and installed an electrical motor below the sawmill's ground floor.

It was very hard to keep waiting," said Whiteman, recalling the three-year process to finally secure a $350,000 workforce unit at the new Waterwheel development off Saw Mill River Road.

[How To Make Everything] took one of the Master’s drawings from 1478 of a sawmill and tried to replicate ... A support structure holds a water wheel and a saw. There’s a crank mechanism ...

Modeled after a waterwheel that powered a saw mill and grist mill at the colonial Chambers Fort, the wheel was installed in 1984 and became a downtown icon. It stopped turning in 2002 after a boy ...

Later, the Historical Society plans to build a sawmill over the waterwheel. The mill is expected to cost $150,000 and will require further grant money. It should attract schoolchildren and ...

A duo of artisan carpenters were there on a recent weekday, amid the unique tools and sawdust, working to restore the mill’s symmetrical, wooden waterwheel, a simple piece of technology that’s ...