Today's milling

[woodwizzard]

Could it be chestnut?

[5thelement]

On 19/10/2024 at 10:37, Johnsond said:

Hi All

Quick question regards a random log I milled yesterday. Had the mill fired up for the first time in months due to work commitments, random log with no bark at all on it in amongst some DF I was doing for cladding. Same grain and patterns as Elm I normally mill but a totally different colour ??, just curious as to why the colour difference if it is even Elm or whatever it may be 🤷‍♂️!! any info from the more knowledgeable members would be appreciated. 
Cheers 

It does have a look of Sweet chestnut, and the minimal sapwood is a good indicator.

Did you notice any smell whilst milling it, I usually get a hint of vinegar and it smells nothing like Elm, nice boards. 👍

[Johnsond]

3 hours ago, 5thelement said:

It does have a look of Sweet chestnut, and the minimal sapwood is a good indicator.

Did you notice any smell whilst milling it, I usually get a hint of vinegar and it smells nothing like Elm, nice boards. 👍

Thanks for that, I did have one of the regular guys I mill for mention “ English Elm” 🤷‍♂️ but I’m inclined to think it’s a bit too soft a timber for that. I do normally pick up the whiff of the various timbers but I’d cut an ash log previously so the place stunk of cat piss. Im currently at a gig in Clydebank watching Molchat Doma but heading home tomorrow so will put the handsaw over it to see what if any odour it gives. 
Cheers 

[Billhook]

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.