Water Powered Vertical Sawmill, Spring Mill State Park, Mitchell Indiana

Water-Powered Sawmill with Vertical Saw, Tram and Wooden Waterwheel. Four-foot wooden under-shot waterwheel powers the saw mill. There is also a wooden, horizontal flutter wheel that washes out the saw dust and powers the log tram back into its original starting position. This 12-minute video shows your the beginning and end of the saw mill process. The miller employees all the action necessary to make the saw mill run.