Today's milling

[Forest2Furniture]

27 minutes ago, dudders said:

Jeez that's beautiful timber.  Can't work out how it went - was that an ancient stub, or is it a cross-section or what?  Looks like it was the stub of a branch that withered away at the end. 

It's from the base of a trunk about 5' in length and 28" diameter at it's widest 

[Forest2Furniture]

50 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Damn! I think they’re the best looking slabs I’ve seen on here to date! Bet they bring in a pretty penny. 

Thanks, I do hope so.

Managed to cut some 3mm thick veneers too, they've sold already

[trigger_andy]

Thanks, I do hope so.
Managed to cut some 3mm thick veneers too, they've sold already

How much does a veneer cut command?

[Macpherson]

9 hours ago, Forest2Furniture said:

I milled some Burr Oak for the first time last week,

Does it get nicer than that ? 

[Ratman]

How much does a veneer cut command?

Secret not telling ya! [emoji23]

[spuddog0507]

On 07/11/2020 at 21:42, The avantgardener said:

 I worked for a guy who used to re saw large volumes of reclaimed timber from Dibnah’s mill demolitions, mostly Pitch Pine and Douglas, but we milled just about everything else also.

The bandsaw was a Forestor with 4” blades. It had a container filled with diluted diesel and a swab that coated the blade the entire time, it certainly did improve the life of the blade and improved the cut whilst in operation.

Dry Elm is like concrete.

Yes i know what you mean with the swab thing, i used to run a stenner resaw and that had simular set up with a foam rubber pad in a bath of diesel, used to tip about half a pint of diesel in every hour or so, Back in 1979/80/81 we did a fencing order for a local fencing contractor and that order was 8500 6ft6" 6x3 larch posts all morticed to take 5 rails, and if i remember rightly about 22,000 larch rails, by the time we had cut all this i and the mill owner was sick of the sight of posts n rails, all this fencing was installed the full length of the M55,

[gonger]

Milled up some Elm Wood in the garden of the old theatre in my home town. Very nice wood, but a lot of nails in the first bit...

 

[Dan Maynard]

That's a good lump of elm, are elm trees that size common in your area? We have few because most have succumbed to elm disease.

[AJStrees]

Nice milling. What kit are you using there? 

 

I have a fairly small mill and some big logs to mill up so I need to upgrade soon so looking to see what others are using that won't cost me an arm and a leg. 

[gonger]

Yes they are common in this size. This one was dead, so it got felled and i got the stump for free.