Today's milling

[Johnsond]

Tried milling a small Elm log I had, unfortunately it was riddled with wire and nails, after 4 blades I gave up and chainsawed out the bits that looked ok. Just messing around with the little woodlands on a dull drizzly Aberdeenshire day, ended up with some quite nice bits of burr. 

[AJStrees]

On 03/11/2024 at 13:31, Billhook said:

A friend asked me to cut some dunnage blocks into sleepers for a small gauge railway he is building.  Not sure what the wood was, it was treated and quite heavy, being dunnage it could have come from anywhere in the World 

Everything going fine until I lost a couple of teeth out of the five on the Lucas blade.  I have only lost a couple of teeth before in the thirty years of owning the Mill and that was due to a hidden nail.

We looked around to try and see the cause but could find nothing so put a new blade on.  This lost all five teeth in the first millisecond of the vertical run

We assume that one or two of the teeth from the previous blade had been left in the cut.  Moral of the tale is not to attempt another cut into the groove until you have either cut out the piece or abandoned it for another piece.

 

Nice job, apart from loosing your teeth. I suppose that is quite costly on a Lucas blade?

[AJStrees]

1 hour ago, Johnsond said:

Tried milling a small Elm log I had, unfortunately it was riddled with wire and nails, after 4 blades I gave up and chainsawed out the bits that looked ok. Just messing around with the little woodlands on a dull drizzly Aberdeenshire day, ended up with some quite nice bits of burr. 

some lovely elmy looking pippy stuff in there. Shame about the teeth you lost.

[AJStrees]

Not too long ago I started milling up some big oak. Got one section done but it’s just too wet and muddy now. Won’t get the little MF135 in and out again with boards on the trailer so gonna wait till later to finish it off.

 

 

 

[Johnsond]

Lovely day up in Turiff, some nice oak and sycamore milled up for a client. Sycamore was bloody hard mind. Long old day but at least it keeps you out of mischief. 

[organic guy]

Fallen oak across a track, no means of lifting so started in the middle, should get easier.

[AHPP]

Are you milling uphill or threading the bar through each cut?

[organic guy]

No, we milled it downhill, just let it go and it ran down of its own accord.

Issue was we had to gouge a hole to get the saw in at the top. We have now managed to cut the bottom end off so I am thinking we will now support under the top end with some longs and mill uphill so we can cut right up to the butt and plank most of the trunk without having to cut the butt off. 

Do you think that will work?

[AHPP]

Can’t see why not but I’m no expert. You won’t cut the last 8 or so inches if there’s a stump in the way. It’ll be unpleasant going uphill. 

[Johnsond]

Couple of days milling some lovely spalted beech for a proper decent client ( Non stop fresh coffee on both days) , beautiful location and weather. Quite close to home so not too far to drag everything with my totally unnecessary vanity van.