Today's milling

[Stere]

 

Remember that huge bog oak table think was a thread on here about it:

 

 

 

Our Story — The Fenland Black Oak Project

WWW.THEFENLANDBLACKOAKPROJECT.CO.UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rough Hewn]

47 minutes ago, Sutton said:

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?

The farmer extracted the log about 2 years ago in 3 x 30’ sections. 2 sections have split along the medullary rays and only good for quartersawn.

The other piece was hollow for 5’ at one end and I crosscut it into rings along with the other solid 5’ leaving 20’.

that I’ve milled half of.

 

my kiln is an older model Logosol about 4kw. Put it on a 40 degree cool cycle and it’s shed a lot of water without any obvious problems so far…..

[Stihllymok]

5 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

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.

really interesting ! i'm not far away if you ever need a hand..👍😊

[peds]

6 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

 

my kiln is an older model Logosol about 4kw. Put it on a 40 degree cool cycle and it’s shed a lot of water without any obvious problems so far…..

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.

[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.