Today's milling

[Coletti]

It can be good, spalted or burr are particularly nice.
It's not a durable timber, so it will start to rot.
However cut at 4" thick it should last a while.
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I was considering 3" but I'll suggest 4". The client has got a bit sentimental that the tree had to be removed so wants to try and make use of some of it for something other than firewood

[Squaredy]

23 minutes ago, Coletti said:

25 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

It can be good, spalted or burr are particularly nice.
It's not a durable timber, so it will start to rot.
However cut at 4" thick it should last a while.

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I was considering 3" but I'll suggest 4". The client has got a bit sentimental that the tree had to be removed so wants to try and make use of some of it for something other than firewood

Maybe something could be made for indoors.  If is has some character maybe mirror, sconses, tables, bookends, blanket box...

[se7enthdevil]

2 hours ago, Coletti said:

What's horse chestnut like as a milled timber? A client wants me to do some so he can use it for rustic outdoor furniture, I'm just curious as to what it will actually be/last like as I've always seen it as a pretty garbage timber to be honest

that'll last 5 mins outdoors tell him.

 

use it for coffee tables or sideboards inside the house.

 

you could get a local turner to knock a few bowls out for them?

[Rough Hewn]

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[Lazurus]

Wasn't chestnut used for fencing, the pale fencing that I used to see around as boundary fencing, surely they wouldn't use something that rotted so quick?

 

[Forest2Furniture]

16 minutes ago, Lazurus said:

Wasn't chestnut used for fencing, the pale fencing that I used to see around as boundary fencing, surely they wouldn't use something that rotted so quick?

 

That's Sweet Chestnut not Horse Chestnut

[Forest2Furniture]

This is just some of the 2" & 3" Oak & spaltered Beech boards that made up the 800 bd/ft I milled on Thursday in Derbyshire for a client who wants to fit out his shop with solid wood counter tops etc.

Good days work, back suffered the following day though!

Edited April 27, 2019 by Forest2Furniture

[Rough Hewn]

This is just some of the 2" & 3" Oak & spaltered Beech boards that made up the 800 bd/ft I milled on Thursday in Derbyshire for a client who wants to fit out his shop with solid wood counter tops etc.
Good days work, back suffered the following day though!

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[peckerwood2016]

Milling larch cladding would rather mill hardwood but cladding is a bit easier on the back

[Rough Hewn]

Milled this sycamore in Manchester today.

Found the obligatory nails and metal[emoji51]
A good set of slabs for projects.
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