Today's milling

[topchippyles]

35 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Yeah 60KVA silent runner, probably could have got away with slightly smaller but it ticked away nicely all day and didn’t use a huge amount of fuel, probably less than the previous Honda petrol unit would have. As for cost yeah im trying to not think about it too much. 

What was the problem with the other one you had custom made Dave 

[Johnsond]

21 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

What was the problem with the other one you had custom made Dave 

There wasn’t one Les, good resale value at the age and hrs it was on and it was an opportunity to put things in place after a period or using the old mill ie lessons learned. Part of me is still wondering if I did right thing bud, this one is the last one Les I tell you that. I’ll stick to playing with the little woodlands afterwards. 

[Johnsond]

Got lucky with some Elm and Oak, all done on the little woodlands. 

[skc101fc]

Makes the heart sing when you get logs like that, that's when you know you're in the right job.🙂

[topchippyles]

7 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Got lucky with some Elm and Oak, all done on the little woodlands. 

Beautiful Dave 

[trigger_andy]

10 hours ago, topchippyles said:

Beautiful Dave 

Valentines day was two days ago Les.

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, trigger_andy said:

Valentines day was two days ago Les.

lol I was thinking something along those lines too Andy but kept it to myself, I’m still not up to speed  with all this LGTBQIA plus bollocks eh. I’ll take the compliment be it for me or the wood 🤣

Edited February 16, 2024 by Johnsond

[muldonach]

Not all today by any means - been playing with the Logosol on wet days and pretty happy - we had some crappy spruce and larch which we ran through to get a feel for things.

A couple of weeks ago a neighbour had what he thought was a small straight oak windblown - when we cleared the ivy away we found it burred - when we ran it through the mill we found it was not oak but think it is elm - it had some figure and burr in it so he is pretty pleased to get it.

Another wet day today so we ran through some fairly poor oak - when we cut into it found some reasonable figure but a lot of faults - anyway we got some good stuff out of it including enough slabs to make a false lintel for a house renovation.

need to get a shed up for timber drying

[AJStrees]

First bit of milling with the chainsaw for a while. A small lump of cherry. Happy with the colour.

 

 

[doobin]

Finally got this big bastard roughed down with the 881 and then squared off on the mill. I was just planning to have a cant for posts, etc but there turned out to be some nice figuring. 
 

Found a use for the top already- an order for stair treads. £250 for a 60mm slice off the top. That pays for dragging the backhoe to site to get it loaded!

 

need to get myself a front quick hitch for that backhoe, would make it so much more useful to me. 

Edited February 29, 2024 by doobin