So, in Skyrim, I've hung around a few sawmills (when you are low level, you gotta do some grunt work to earn some coin and build your rep with the townfolk, you know what I mean?):
I just figured this was some clever creation of the game designers. However, it turns out, real sawmills were pretty similar as I discovered while visiting Catoctin Mountain Park:
So what does it say about me that when I see a real re-creation of a saw mill from the olden days, I think "Hey this is just like in Skyrim." Maybe makes me kinda lame, but (possibly?) also makes me kinda cool? Don't worry, I won't be polling anyone anytime soon on this!
I think Skyrim got their water wheel wrong though. In the game, they have a traditional mill-style wheel on the side catching some slow flowing water whereas IRL they seem to need fast moving water driving a wheel that is directly beneath the mechanism. (there are two here because the smaller one is used to drive the log forward into the blade which is driven by the bigger one in the back. Clever engineering!)
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