{"id":26129,"date":"2024-02-26T17:18:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T22:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=26129"},"modified":"2024-02-26T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T22:21:17","slug":"john-calder-saw-mill-and-threshing-mach-ine-at-work-masseyharris-beams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=26129","title":{"rendered":"JOHN CALDER SAW MILL AND THRESHING MACH INE AT WORK…MASSEYHARRIS BEAMS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE   1,020  JOHN AND ELEANOR CALDER \u2014 BUILT A SAWMILL FROM PARTS <\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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Note: This story is about the Calder family aw mill.   Your task is to separate threshing <\/div>\n
from sawing\u2026.the Calders did both. <\/div>\n

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John and Eleanor Calder were a remarkable couple, Hard to know where to start their story<\/div>\n
because they could do things thst would intimidate people like me and possibly you,<\/div>\n

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\u2018What  is all that scrap iron beside the barn John?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI am going to build a sawmill, Alan\u2026got all the pieces here.\u201d<\/div>\n

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John and Eleanor were a perfect match\u2026fitted hand and glove.<\/div>\n
They decided to build their own house after a fire converted nearly all their<\/div>\n
possessions into ash.  I remember John\u2019s burnt hands after he reached through a burning <\/div>\n
window to rescue some silverware and pottery.<\/div>\n

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AFTER THE FIRE ‘MAKNG DO’ WITH WHAT REMAINED<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe will just have to make do with what remains\u2019\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat remains?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cLots.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cLike the dairy herd was untouched and the barn and the sheep\u2026and our family\u2026no<\/div>\n
deaths in the fire.<\/div>\n
so we began to build our dream house.<\/div>\n
 I rescued this sawmill from scrap iron dealers.   We have trees<\/div>\n
\u2026lots of them\u2026.and we have stones,,,lots of them.  Enough to build a two storey field stone house,  I have a plan,\u201d<\/div>\n
P{lan\u201d\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cThe stones are free but lumber costs money.   I need my own saw mill to cut costs\u201d<\/div>\n
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JOHN AND ELEANOR CALDER WITH HELP OF CHILDREN  JAMES, DOUGLAS AND <\/div>\n

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ANNE BUILT A STONE HOUSE THAT BECAME A FEATURE STORY IN NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES  i,e  HARROWSMITH<\/div>\n

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The brand new stone house about to receive lumber from<\/div>\n
 the saw Mill<\/div>\n

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ENTER  OUR FMILY<\/div>\n

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      when we  discovered   the Calder saw mill.  We had been collecting white pine beams from                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        the demolition of the Massey Harris factory in west Toronto.  The pictures below show how the beams became nice lumber.<\/div>\n

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Today the saw mill has been abandoned for two decades <\/div>\n

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OUR LUMBER AWAITS A NEED<\/div>\n

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CIBC<\/div>\n

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alan<\/div>\n

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P.S>   Eleanor was born to Frank Townsend and Elizabeth Skeoch, dad’s sister<\/div>\n

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