1786–1836 A brewery, a school and a furnacePivovar, škola a vysoká pec

For most of these years Podbiel lived off the forest: felling in winter, hauling the logs down to the water, and floating them away on rafts down the Orava into the Váh and on to the lowland, which is how Orava timber reached the towns. Around that, small things arrived. A brewery was working here in 1786. A wooden school with two classrooms was finished in 1833. In 1836 an iron furnace was put up in the village and closed again because it did not pay — a reminder that the industrial century reached Orava, tried it, and mostly moved on. Cholera came through in 1831 and killed about 80 people here.Po väčšinu týchto rokov žil Podbiel z lesa: v zime sa rúbalo, kláty sa zvážali k vode a na pltiach sa drevo splavovalo Oravou do Váhu a ďalej do nížin — takto sa oravské drevo dostávalo do miest. Okolo toho pribúdali drobnosti. V roku 1786 tu pracoval pivovar. V roku 1833 dostavali drevenú školu s dvoma triedami. V roku 1836 v obci postavili vysokú pec na železo a onedlho ju zase zatvorili, lebo sa nevyplácala — pripomienka, že priemyselné storočie na Oravu dorazilo, skúsilo to a väčšinou išlo ďalej. V roku 1831 prešla dedinou cholera a zomrelo pri nej asi 80 ľudí.