Today's milling

[AJStrees]

Not a bad sized pine 

[peds]

On 09/11/2022 at 19:23, Rough Hewn said:

No-one will want this wonky bit, I'll take it off your hands if you need.

[Squaredy]

54 minutes ago, AJStrees said:

Not a bad sized pine 

Well worth milling into slabs.  Do it soon and stack the timber out of the weather straight away as pine will discolour badly really quickly.

[AJStrees]

11 hours ago, Squaredy said:

Well worth milling into slabs.  Do it soon and stack the timber out of the weather straight away as pine will discolour badly really quickly.

Cheers mate. Always good to get knowledge from the more experienced. Appreciated 👍

[Rough Hewn]

(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.

[Rough Hewn]

The bog oak from a few months back.

from near Blackpool.

the story the farmer told me was:

The trunks are all 70’-90’+ about 5’-6’ under the surface.

all laying in the same direction away from the coast…

must have been a hell of a tsunami to flatten an oak forest several miles inland….

approx 5000 years ago.

the farmer finds the trunks when digging huge drainage ditches.

[Rough Hewn]

If you look carefully at picture one.

this 10’ piece, I cut from a 30’ piece.

the farmer found a 90’ log, he had to cut it into 3 x 30’ to get it out.

the rest of the tree is under the brambles.

Edited November 16, 2022 by Rough Hewn
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[Stere]

Really interesting

 

Must of being an impressive oak forest

 

Would be nice to get them dated from the Dendrochronology?

[Rough Hewn]

37 minutes ago, Stere said:

Really interesting

 

Must of being an impressive oak forest

 

Would be nice to get them dated from the Dendrochronology?

The farmer also told me they’d had some carbon dated. The deep stuff is 5000 approx and other bits dated between then and a few hundred years ago.

we found a few small pieces of bog yew as well but only tiny pieces.

Going back in a couple of weeks to mill the other log. I’ll ask the farmer if he’s got any documentation👍

[Sutton]

33 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

The farmer also told me they’d had some carbon dated. The deep stuff is 5000 approx and other bits dated between then and a few hundred years ago.

we found a few small pieces of bog yew as well but only tiny pieces.

Going back in a couple of weeks to mill the other log. I’ll ask the farmer if he’s got any documentation👍

Wonderful!

Looking at how far up the log the splits and cracks go where the farmer cross cut them is interesting. How long between when he excavated them out and cut them to when you got on site?

 

Would you say that the control in kiln drying would reduce this?