Today's milling

[AHPP]

Never seen it done that way before. I assume she emerges from the cab of a tractor wearing a sequin dress?

[bilke_user]

Nice easy job. Ripping 150m of 6x1's into 450m of2x1's.  Helps when the weather's good

Edited May 18, 2021 by bilke_user

[topchippyles]

2 minutes ago, bilke_user said:

Nice easy job. Ripping 350m of 6x1's into 1000m of2x1's.  Helps when the weather's good

What a lovely setting to mill in as long as its not to windy 

[bilke_user]

21 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

What a lovely setting to mill in as long as its not to windy 

Light wind blowing up the loch from behind me.  Great day.  Tomorrow's not looking so clever, milling oak in a midge infested glen

 

[topchippyles]

Just now, bilke_user said:

Light wind blowing up the loch from behind me.  Great day.  Tomorrow's not looking so clever, milling oak in a midge infested glen

 

Forecast is nice for wednesday for south wales and shite thus/fri so milling ash tomorrow 

[eggsarascal]

On 16/05/2021 at 08:44, AHPP said:

 

Never seen it done that way before. I assume she emerges from the cab of a tractor wearing a sequin dress?

 

You'll like this, not a lot, but...

[bilke_user]

Milling some very wavy oak for the past couple of days.  Not great quality but for what it's going to be used for it will do fine.   Bonus here was the midges were beaten away by the very strong wind.   

 

[Dan Maynard]

I cut big oaks all the time. 6m x 12" is definately not worth 2k. If only 4 beams came out of an oak it isn't that big.Beams 10m plus get more expensive as trees of beam quality are hard to find at that length.
In my opinion the oak trigger is cutting is not really beam quality due to the faults and excessive twisting of the grain. Makes nice slabs but will be difficult slabs to control at 6m long.
 

Well thanks, next time I'm looking at an oak and someone asks me to cut it down free because it's so valuable I'll know more where I stand.

[spuddog0507]

On 18/05/2021 at 19:01, bilke_user said:

Light wind blowing up the loch from behind me.  Great day.  Tomorrow's not looking so clever, milling oak in a midge infested glen

 

Used to get up there on to loch Awe and Etive a fair bit but never after mid May, simply for the reason you describe ,Midges, it was not nice at all, once went to Awe in mid June and went home after 36hrs, 

[Johnsond]

Steep learning curve and one goosed blade so far  🤷‍♂️. Bit of fencing material and some nice Oak both customers jobs. 

Edited May 29, 2021 by Johnsond