Saw-Mills of Sarreyer

Like most of the mills in the Bagnes valley, those of Sarreyer were content with double horizontal wheels until the community creation, in 1837, of a saw and a mill driven by a single vertical wheel. Disused following the arrival of electricity and the massive abandonment of cereal farming, the mill has now been fully restored and is regularly put into operation.

Thanks to ingenious but simple mechanisms that the caretaker Jean-Marc Masson reveals, the user can saw long logs on the upper...