Today's milling

[Forest2Furniture]

17 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

That's not wood,
That's art.
Frame it.

Nice idea though it would be a big frame, they're 10' long and 20" wide 

[Rough Hewn]

Milled a large beech for a mate today. Absolutely drenched.
The 880 and the panther mill really do the job well.

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[Michael h]

27 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

Milled a large beech for a mate today. Absolutely drenched.
The 880 and the panther mill really do the job well.

That's some lovely colour in that. Was Meripilus involved in the tree's demise by any chance?

cheers

Mike

[Rough Hewn]

That's some lovely colour in that. Was Meripilus involved in the tree's demise by any chance?
cheers
Mike

No it was a guy called Ed, with a big Saw. [emoji6]
Got the rest of the tree in the yard, I'll ask Ed about meripilus.
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[Michael h]

Maybe i should have said, why was an awesome dude with a big saw, asked to drop it.

just asking coz the last time i saw colour like that in beech it was from a meripilus infected tree.

 

 

This is the one i put in the video forum recently. 

cheers 

Mike

[Bob_z_l]

12 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

Milled a large beech for a mate today. Absolutely drenched.
The 880 and the panther mill really do the job well.

Hi Rough,

 Just noticed ... you don't run a remote oiler on the big bar.

I was wondering, is it not needed? or is there another reason?

You still manage to produce some lovely pieces.

 

Bob
 

[Rough Hewn]

Maybe i should have said, why was an awesome dude with a big saw, asked to drop it.
just asking coz the last time i saw colour like that in beech it was from a meripilus infected tree.

 

 
This is the one i put in the video forum recently. 
cheers 
Mike

Look carefully at the third photo.
There are 3 different types of fungi,
One type in the centre 12"
Another in a band around it,
And a third nearer the outer edge.
I'll get some close ups later
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[Rough Hewn]

We've been discussing different fungi strains for spalting beech and syc.
Thought about rubbing mud and fungus into the fresh end grains.
Anyone tried this?

[gobbypunk]

Hi yep I have tried transplanting fungi from beech with to beech without and it didn’t work but burying the end half way in wet sawdust seems to work also just leaving a few boards under your bench again covered in damp fresh sawdust seems to work ,I had a chunk of beech under my bench totaly forgot about and cleaning out under the bench and uncovered this chunk scraped the sawdust from it and wow ,an old boy told me you can cover the boards in sawdust wrap in black plastic and leave and that will encourage spalting it’s just a matter of catching it before it’s rotten,have an experiment.

Cheers Mark 

[trigger_andy]

Towed the B751 to its first Milling job today.  Only had it 14 months.  Is for a mate though so I guess it does not really count. Towed well, hardly knew it was there. Milled a bunch of Spruce, Pine and DF, and a wee bit of Oak. Full days milling on a single Ripper Blade. Will be back tomorrow for another full day.