Steve, I agree with you 100%, folks can talk about how great it was in those "old years", but they didn't live it. I remember Mama picking sacks of flour based on the printed pattern on the cloth sack because it was what she wanted to make clothes from. Feed sacks were not as fine a fabric as flour sacks, but they worked also.
Now, How in the world did you get the overhead views? Camera mounted on a tall pole? Drone?
What can I say, I'm IMPRESSED!!!! not only with your sawmill and your abilities, but also your editing and camera work. That's not easy, but you sure make it look easy.
WOW!!! - that's all I can say. Makes me think of my Dad "making do" while growing up on the farm. We had a crusher (a machine that "crushed" (course grinding) corn, hay, etc to make cow feed. He took an old flathead engine from something, complete with transmission and clutch and connected to this "crusher" which was designed to run off a belt driven by a tractor. Dad was pretty good at stuff like that. Mom had more "school learning", she finished 7th grade, Dad didn't.
Like Cliff, I get to remembering and I can ramble on a long time with LOTS of old memories.
Ken H>