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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;techwriter, post: 2936336, member: 75477&quot;]Well, I know I&#039;ve posted this before but I&#039;ve learned about the machine pictured on the check. Did some research on Wickes Brothers on the <a href="http://www.vintagemachinery.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vintagemachinery.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.vintagemachinery.org</a> site. Here&#039;s what the historian had to say:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Quote:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>That is a lovely cheque! </p><p><br /></p><p>The machine pictured is a gang sawmill. The picture is hard to understand because the bottom of the machine—where the man is standing—would be one storey below the saw carriage, which isn’t shown. At the top of the machine is a frame containing a set of a dozen or so vertical sawblades. A cant, which is a squared-off saw log, is fed into the blades between the two horizontal rollers, reducing the cant into a bunch of boards. This type of saw was used mainly for making boards for flooring and siding.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]714149[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]714150[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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