Yes It can be done. There is a sawmill near me that has the main saw, and some other pieces that run off the engine. It is an old Caterpillar engine with the flat belt on it. He has the whole main mill run from there, and the controls for the head blocks, and such are hydraulically operated. There used to be a machine shop in town that ran on an overhead shaft with belts down to the machines. I think he had 2 main shafts with 2 rows of equipment. It went away with his retirement. You will not be as happy with the small engines running things like a sawmill blades as they take power to run. The guy I spoke of earlier here used to have an old IHC pickup engine to run the mill. He later got the Big Caterpillar engine. It is like a D-7 equivalent. I do know he can saw faster with the bigger engine.The pickup engine would pull down some when he was trying to push it a bit. The Cat just cracks the governor open some. If you're wanting to do this seriously I would use an electric set up run on a generator. You would then be only limited by the capacity of the generator. It would allow you to use much newer equipment with more parts availability.
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