Thinking about having a go

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Put my order in with Rob today so hopefully I can be making planks at the end of the week 

I have access to some more oak now but I don't think it is anything like as good I can have the trunk but it's bent it may be ok to make some small boards for something else 

[NFG]

What have you ordered then?

Might have a go myself one day so interested, a friend has two nice sticks of Walnut, been down a few years & they must be easily 1.20 diameter by 2.5 meters

[SteveA]

Stunning house - you are very talented and they cant take that away from you.

Obviously its early days to decide where or what you do next... meanwhile, i send my best wishes towards your future...

 

cheers, steve

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On 09/12/2017 at 17:58, NFG said:

What have you ordered then?

Might have a go myself one day so interested, a friend has two nice sticks of Walnut, been down a few years & they must be easily 1.20 diameter by 2.5 meters

I have got a 36" GB low pro bar and chain along with the required sprockets also got some of the safe edge files for my standard chain he was out of stock for the lo pro size 

Not had chance to make any cuts yet but got all the stuff 

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Had a go today 

Ran out of time but as it's all set up it won't take long to cut some more slabs now the set up took quite some time but each cut was very quick much faster than I expected 

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[NFG]

I'd be well chuffed with that for the first go, nice looking boards there well done!

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I guess it comes down to reading threads on here and taking it in 

And obviously buying good stuff off Rob d 

I am very pleased with the results so far and quite surprised at how fast it cut was probably sub 3 mins a board at over 10ft and 22"-25" wide 

[Rough Hewn]

Try to keep the saw at 90 degrees to the trunk, less seesawing.
Good result. [emoji106]

[Wonkydonkey]

Looks to me like,,,,, the cutters/teeth are still not at the angle best suited for milling. My first cuts were like that, they got better once the teeth were 10 or less degrees

and yeah less sea sawing like rough-boy-hewn says?. Its prolly down the rakers to high and angle of teeth..etc.

 

cheers