Today's milling

[AJStrees]

Different section of the tree at a different camera angle. again, not too exciting to watch but I think videos are a bit more interesting than a photo. A lot of the time I keep the throttle held in so that I can keep the mill going through the log faster. Not the case in this video though

 

 

[organic guy]

AJ

I  know you always use the ladder to ease saw passage.

Is it just screwed into the top of the log?

Do you not worry about damage to the surface or is everything you cut only view from one side?

 

 

[AJStrees]

12 minutes ago, organic guy said:

AJ

I  know you always use the ladder to ease saw passage.

Is it just screwed into the top of the log?

Do you not worry about damage to the surface or is everything you cut only view from one side?

 

 

I suppose being that the timber is never perfect  in the first place, the holes never seem to be a problem, I only screw a small way in to the top of the log to hold the ladder in place. If someone is going to use a slab to make a table, they will generally want to get the timber machined, through a thicknesser, planed, any and all imperfections filled, epoxy resin or oiled/varnished, etc... by the time that is all done, the 4 holes I put in are no issue. 👍 IMHO

[AJStrees]

17 minutes ago, organic guy said:

AJ

I  know you always use the ladder to ease saw passage.

Is it just screwed into the top of the log?

Do you not worry about damage to the surface or is everything you cut only view from one side?

 

 

but I appreciate that is not necessarily how everyone else might think. 👍

[trigger_andy]

With my Jeep in getting paint Sinister was on loading duty. 
 

A 6” beam for a customer (thanks Dave) and a few bit fir me. After a morning of setting posts I only had an hour or so on the mill. 
 

 

[Johnsond]

Cracking  day out in Deeside for a customer milling various bits of Oak( primarily 200x200 beams ) , one log was too big for mill, had to be broken down into 200mm slabs with the Alaskan then trimmed to fit. I just do not miss that 880 banging away right next to me 😞 

 

Edited May 12, 2023 by Johnsond

[Squaredy]

Yew is beautiful.  Came home today and told my wife this and she blushed.  Women are strange…

[Stihllymok]

1 hour ago, Squaredy said:

Yew is beautiful.  Came home today and told my wife this and she blushed.  Women are strange…

Wow!! That's making me want to get on with the whopper in my yard. Too big for bandsaw and worried my 48" might be too small..😳

[AJStrees]

1 hour ago, Squaredy said:

Yew is beautiful.  Came home today and told my wife this and she blushed.  Women are strange…

Lovely. Very fresh log?

[Squaredy]

1 hour ago, AJStrees said:

Lovely. Very fresh log?

Yes this log is from a tree only felled a few weeks ago.  In fact all these pictures are from logs from that one tree.  I have more yew logs to mill that have been in my yard for several years.