Inside Germany’s Last Water-Powered Sawmill

water-powered sawmill, waterwheel sawmill, historic sawmill A single waterwheel. A blade rising and falling. And by noon, enough timber to frame an entire house. Before the electric sawmill, the only thing standing between a forest and a finished building was a river — and the man who knew how to use it. Across the wooded hill country of central and southern Germany — wherever a reliable stream ran through a forested valley — water-powered sawmills were once as common as churches. In today's video, we look inside a Water-Powered Sawmill… Keep watching to see a historic water-powered sawmill #waterpoweredsawmill #waterwheelsawmill #historicsawmill #traditionalskills #historicalcrafts #traditionalcraftsmanship