Today's milling

[se7enthdevil]

22 hours ago, Erik said:

 

Just teasing you a bit.  Both the coastal’s and the Sequoia’s are true wonders of the world that everyone should try and see at least once in their life.   The Sequoias are not nearly as numerous and grow in a very limited area. The fact that their wood is extremely brittle,  and hard to work with was probably what saved them from extinction.  The coastal on the other hand offers some of the nicest softwood on the planet, and they grow like a weed in their natural environment. We did our best to run them into exstiction, but luckily cooler heads prevailed.  

in fairness here the coastal redwood is Sequoia sempervirens...

 

it's some cracking timber you have there.

 

how old do you think the tree was?

[IVECOKID]

Salvaged some elm that's been down for a few years

[Conor Wright]

Salvaged some elm that's been down for a few years

I see some ripples in the wood.. I've found it can occur if your chain is at 30° rather than set for milling at 10°
You will lose a lot of the thickness of the board planing them out! It's well worth spending a little time setting up the mill and getting a very good edge on the chain, it may save you from losing out on good timber. I've done it myself and had the piles of planings to prove it.

[rich crowther]

[rich crowther]

Nice walnut. 
 
How are you finding the little Trakmet mill? 

Solid piece of kit, cuts those 700mm wide slabs easily
Never had any problems with it at all

[Johnsond]

28 minutes ago, Big J said:

I imported one of them for anithrt arbtalker and I think he's been happy with it too. 

Currently swithering on wether to make my own or buy the log loader from Trakmet ready made J 

got a quote from Pawel whom I'm sure you know. They look to have some good kit and my experience with polish welders would lead me to expect a robust bit of kit. 

That Brexit forum has done for me J I'm just about ready to sack it in as a few others have done. 

[trigger_andy]

1 hour ago, Johnsond said:

Currently swithering on wether to make my own or buy the log loader from Trakmet ready made J 

got a quote from Pawel whom I'm sure you know. They look to have some good kit and my experience with polish welders would lead me to expect a robust bit of kit. 

That Brexit forum has done for me J I'm just about ready to sack it in as a few others have done. 

Build it! Then build two and I'll buy the other.

 

 

[Ratman]

Currently swithering on wether to make my own or buy the log loader from Trakmet ready made J 
got a quote from Pawel whom I'm sure you know. They look to have some good kit and my experience with polish welders would lead me to expect a robust bit of kit. 
That Brexit forum has done for me J I'm just about ready to sack it in as a few others have done. 

Build your own! Your more than capable!!! I’ve been following your build so far and your not shy on welding skills or future proof thinking ideas, you’ll piss it.
And you always get that self satisfaction at the end, when ya stand back and look at it in operation and the thought....... “i did that” pops in to your swede and a big grin appears on your face! [emoji106] plus you’ll know it inside out.

[Johnsond]

3 hours ago, Ratman said:

Build your own! Your more than capable!!! I’ve been following your build so far and your not shy on welding skills or future proof thinking ideas, you’ll piss it.
And you always get that self satisfaction at the end, when ya stand back and look at it in operation and the thought....... “i did that” pops in to your swede and a big grin appears on your face! plus you’ll know it inside out.

 Ratman/Andy 

yeah it's always good to build something that's bespoke to suit what you want. Time is the problem at the moment and the weather is not helping lately. I'm staring down the barrel of a 6-8 week trip away shortly so will be trying to get it to a point where I'm happy to leave it for a while. If the build costs get to within a certain point of the buy costs I'll probs just buy and adapt that to fit. time to do some maths I think 

[trigger_andy]

17 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

 Ratman/Andy 

yeah it's always good to build something that's bespoke to suit what you want. Time is the problem at the moment and the weather is not helping lately. I'm staring down the barrel of a 6-8 week trip away shortly so will be trying to get it to a point where I'm happy to leave it for a while. If the build costs get to within a certain point of the buy costs I'll probs just buy and adapt that to fit. time to do some maths I think 

Where are you heading? 6-8 weeks bonus? Its a no brainer, just buy one.  Will be waiting for you when you arrive home, haha.