Today's milling

[AJStrees]

On another note. Would you use full skip ripping chain on a 41" bar? or just go with full comp? for that length .404 on the 881. 

 

Anyone welcome to pitch in with constructive answers. 👍

[Squaredy]

1 hour ago, Sutton said:

Did you finish your snooker clubhouse/den?

No, progress has been slow…shortly going to put down the concrete pad.  All the timber is now cut and this beam is for the roof.  I originally planned to use a truss but realised there was no height for this (to comply with permitted development rights), so I am having a flat roof with this beam supporting the purlins in the middle.

[Sutton]

38 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

No, progress has been slow…shortly going to put down the concrete pad.  All the timber is now cut and this beam is for the roof.  I originally planned to use a truss but realised there was no height for this (to comply with permitted development rights), so I am having a flat roof with this beam supporting the purlins in the middle.

I was wondering if it was for that. As for the price, I would say ten years ago I would charge £50 per foot multiplied by its length of 20ft, then double that. But I've only ever sold through and through oak boards so might be well shorting today's realistic value a bit given the uniqueness of the log you milled, crazy timber prices and construction material shortage etc.

[Treeman2000]

15 hours ago, AJStrees said:

On another note. Would you use full skip ripping chain on a 41" bar? or just go with full comp? for that length .404 on the 881. 

 

Anyone welcome to pitch in with constructive answers. 👍

Ive always just used a full comp on my 41" with my 881. If that helps. Works perfectly 

[Rough Hewn]

On 04/10/2022 at 18:26, AJStrees said:

On another note. Would you use full skip ripping chain on a 41" bar? or just go with full comp? for that length .404 on the 881. 

 

Anyone welcome to pitch in with constructive answers. 👍

Full skip would work well, higher chain speed and more chip clearance. Also less teeth to sharpen.👍

[topchippyles]

3 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

Full skip would work well, higher chain speed and more chip clearance. Also less teeth to sharpen.👍

Not seen you on here for a while keeping well i hope buddy. 

[Johnsond]

Few more days onsite for a previous client, mix of Oak and Walnut. Some of the Oak was pushing things a bit, only one small nail over the whole period which was a change. 

[marktownend]

I said in another thread a few weeks ago I'd put some pics up of a cherry tree we recently had milled (thanks Charlie!) and here they finally are. It was probably the biggest and best of 6 huge cherries in our small wood and unfortunately came down in Storm Eunice. The butt was roughly 60cm diameter to the crotch where it split into 2 trunks each of which was 40cm, then they continued almost dead straight up another 16m before any significant branches and were still 25cm at that height.

 

No way we'd have been able to mill it ourselves so the guys came and milled it onsite to the specs a furniture maker I know who'd agreed to buy the whole lot from us gave us. They did the trunks into 4m slabs at 35mm (qty 42 @ 4m plus 6 @ 2.5m due to a slight bend) on a mobile mill then used a chainsaw mill to do the butt due to the width as the furniture guy wanted to keep a little of the bottom of the 2 trunks so he'd get some Y shaped slabs and we got 4 x 60mm slabs out of that (plus a few more trimmings when I get the remnants down to the miller's yard), max width 90cm.

 

And we've got a couple of 75mm weird shaped cookies from the bottom we're keeping ourselves, plus the crown which we've not yet touched but I may sell to wood turners, plus a large burr from the base. Sale price £3250. Milling cost £500. Fuel for 2 trips to deliver £250. Profit (excluding our time but we weren't doing this as a commercial activity) £2500. Oh, and we sold it green, he's going to dry it himself. He'd have had to pay around double that amount from his usual supplier for this quantity of kiln dried cherry.

 

So Stere maybe you might now believe me, and Andy maybe you should get your pieces of cherry milled!

Edited October 15, 2022 by marktownend

[Squaredy]

10 hours ago, marktownend said:

I said in another thread a few weeks ago I'd put some pics up of a cherry tree we recently had milled (thanks Charlie!) and here they finally are. It was probably the biggest and best of 6 huge cherries in our small wood and unfortunately came down in Storm Eunice. The butt was roughly 60cm diameter to the crotch where it split into 2 trunks each of which was 40cm, then they continued almost dead straight up another 16m before any significant branches and were still 25cm at that height.

 

No way we'd have been able to mill it ourselves so the guys came and milled it onsite to the specs a furniture maker I know who'd agreed to buy the whole lot from us gave us. They did the trunks into 4m slabs at 35mm (qty 42 @ 4m plus 6 @ 2.5m due to a slight bend) on a mobile mill then used a chainsaw mill to do the butt due to the width as the furniture guy wanted to keep a little of the bottom of the 2 trunks so he'd get some Y shaped slabs and we got 4 x 60mm slabs out of that (plus a few more trimmings when I get the remnants down to the miller's yard), max width 90cm.

 

And we've got a couple of 75mm weird shaped cookies from the bottom we're keeping ourselves, plus the crown which we've not yet touched but I may sell to wood turners, plus a large burr from the base. Sale price £3250. Milling cost £500. Fuel for 2 trips to deliver £250. Profit (excluding our time but we weren't doing this as a commercial activity) £2500. Oh, and we sold it green, he's going to dry it himself. He'd have had to pay around double that amount from his usual supplier for this quantity of kiln dried cherry.

 

So Stere maybe you might now believe me, and Andy maybe you should get your pieces of cherry milled!

Wow, well done, and lovely timber for sure.  What was the price per cubic foot or cubic metre then? Or did you not calculate it like that?

[marktownend]

Thanks, genuinely can't remember exactly what figure we calculated it on, but I think it may have been around £35pcf or £1200pcm. I did some reasonably accurate semi-measured guesstimates to get the volume, he was happy with the price.

 

Interesting process overall from seeing it as a beautiful tree in a woodland to the disappointment of finding it had fallen, arranging for the milling and sale and actually getting involved with the processing and delivery. Looking forward to seeing what he makes from the slabs once he's dried it.