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March 31, 2015

New Hampshire family uses homestead mill to cut lumber for its farm

GILMANTON, N.H. (AP) — On Bob Potter's farm, the whine of a saw is heard over the grumbling of a diesel-powered engine as he and his boys carry on a family practice begun nearly half a century ago.

Moving back and forth through the blade on a motorized carriage, long poplar logs that the guys harvested off their Gilmanton farm are cut into planks that they'll use this spring to build a 30-by-40-foot barn for some of their 85 head of cattle.


 
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