Today's milling

[Rough Hewn]

1 hour ago, peds said:

What does it taste like?

Obviously you'd not go drinking from the reservoir of a condenser dryer or a dehumidifier, but I'm curious what the sweat of 5000 year old bog oak is like.

When you cross cut it,

you get black chip and sawdust, but also a black liquid drips from the cut…

 

[Conor Wright]

1 hour ago, peds said:

What does it taste like?

Blend up a chunk of old oak branch, some wet turf and a dash of stagnant ditch water then add a teaspoon of chain oil and let us know!

[peds]

Rather than the liquid seeping from the wood itself, which I imagine would be pretty unpleasant, I'm wondering about the product of the humidity removed from the kiln. Of course, it should just be plain old H2O with no carried flavour or character, but anyone who has ever dipped a finger in the product of a condensing tumble dryer knows that's not true.

 

I also wonder what effect a few chips of it would have while taking a long bath in neutral spirit (that is, barrel aging of whisky without the barrel), and how much you could sell a relatively tiny amount of wood for to any enthusiastic moonshiners. Try posting a photo on 

https://www.reddit.com/r/firewater/, see what people think. Might be a cool way to get rid of any scabs and scrap.

[Rough Hewn]

1 hour ago, peds said:

Rather than the liquid seeping from the wood itself, which I imagine would be pretty unpleasant, I'm wondering about the product of the humidity removed from the kiln. Of course, it should just be plain old H2O with no carried flavour or character, but anyone who has ever dipped a finger in the product of a condensing tumble dryer knows that's not true.

 

I also wonder what effect a few chips of it would have while taking a long bath in neutral spirit (that is, barrel aging of whisky without the barrel), and how much you could sell a relatively tiny amount of wood for to any enthusiastic moonshiners. Try posting a photo on 

https://www.reddit.com/r/firewater/, see what people think. Might be a cool way to get rid of any scabs and scrap.

Well I’ve got 200 litres if you want to try some? Looks like distilled water though.

Quite happy to swap some pieces.👍

[Rough Hewn]

2 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

Blend up a chunk of old oak branch, some wet turf and a dash of stagnant ditch water then add a teaspoon of chain oil and let us know!

You’d need some fine Sandy grit as well.

 

[trigger_andy]

On 16/11/2022 at 10:08, Rough Hewn said:

(British bog oak) cooking nicely in the logosol drying kiln.
Should be ready for a very very special project…. Coming soon…
These are the ones Callum from @chain2grain and I cut a few months back.

How do you get on with the Logosol drying Kiln? I really should buy one as well. 

[Rough Hewn]

21 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

How do you get on with the Logosol drying Kiln? I really should buy one as well. 

Ask me in a couple of weeks, as this is the first time using it.

so far everything looks flat still and it’s taken out 200+ litres of water.

I bought it off a mate who was drying about 6+ m3 of 2”-3” hardwood from green in 8-10 weeks to 10%mc.

Logosol don’t sell the 4kw anymore,

think it’s a 2kw now.

still can dry a dozen 10’ x 3’ slabs though.

[Rough Hewn]

A few photos of the stall we manned for Rob.D of Panther mills and Chainsawbars.co.uk at this years APF.

Big thank you to Justin for letting us stay in his tent…

(Most expensive tent I’ve ever stayed in…)

Really enjoyed meeting lots of other chainsaw millers and putting faces to arbtalk members.

 

[Rough Hewn]

We did a little demo of the 881 and the 60” panther mill in the stihl demo area.

I think the stihl guys enjoyed having a go too.

[Rough Hewn]

Bonus points if you can spot “tree king”

🤣👍