The sawmill is from Młodów, a small village on the left bank of Poprad by the road and railway line from Stary Sącz to Piwniczna. After the partition of Poland, the village was incorporated into the Austrian estates, and in the 19th century a large area of the surrounding forests belonged to the Forestry Production Society (‘Towarzystwo Produkcji Leśnej’) in Vienna. The origins of the semi-industrial peasant sawmill from Młodów date back to the 1860s. It was built by Wojciech Dziedzina. It is a timber frame shed, inside of which is a single-saw gater for the vertical cutting of blocks mounted on a self-sliding carriage. A separate small cart for transporting raw material and lumber was added later. The water wheel and the main shaft with the large pile wheel, as well as the original transmission assembly for the saw mill, did not survive (they were removed in the 1960s with the introduction of an electric drive) and required reconstruction, as did part of the structure and the building’s covering.
Sawmill from Mlodow
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