Today's milling

[Essex]

Yeh he is. But also worth keeping sweet. He'll deliver me his Teli-Handler for the Weekend, Friday night till Monday morning for £60. I pay £60 a month to rent for the workshop space that I've just put a Ramp in and hopefully will be buying some land off of him in the future.
 
But regardless of that I think 3 x 1000mm wide Slabs 50mm thick and 3-4m long for a days work is ok. Considering what they can sell for when dried. I cherry pick to, so make sure I get the 1/4 sawn middle boards too. [emoji6] Or at least half of them. 

Whats the green car in the picture please

[Stihl123]

33 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

There is a stack of threads or at least posts in this section covering this very issue. The question was raised again just a post or two ago. Might be worth a search through the threads to get an answer on a subject thats been heavily covered within the last 12 months? Not having a pop, its one Ive asked too.  If theres any fresh updates here I'll also be reading them with interest. 

OK cheers trigger I'll take a look back, I'm 4 eyes so that doesn't help ?

[Rough Hewn]

this is probably a real dumb question, but what's best way to get an idea of what slabs are worth? is it just through experience or is there somewhere that you can use to give you a guild? as i have no idea!! 
thanks

It's a bit like quoting fir tree work.
Takes a long time to get it mostly right.
There are many websites with price per cubic foot.
This is for graded wood and character wood.
However character wood is "subjective"
and may be worth much more or less than graded wood.
Then there is over sized wood,
Burred,pippy,rippled,cankered,
birds eye, tiger striped, flamed,
Spalted etc etc.
It's quite a broad subject really.
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[trigger_andy]

Just now, Essex said:

Whats the green car in the picture please

Its a 1971 Valiant Charger. Australian built car based on the American A Body Mopar, ie Dodge Dart, Dodge Demon, Plymouth Barracuda, Plymouth Duster etc. This is my 5th one.  

[trigger_andy]

4 minutes ago, Stihl123 said:

OK cheers trigger I'll take a look back, I'm 4 eyes so that doesn't help ?

And we all know what makes a lad blind.  

[Stihl123]

13 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

It's a bit like quoting fir tree work.
Takes a long time to get it mostly right.
There are many websites with price per cubic foot.
This is for graded wood and character wood.
However character wood is "subjective"
and may be worth much more or less than graded wood.
Then there is over sized wood,
Burred,pippy,rippled,cankered,
birds eye, tiger striped, flamed,
Spalted etc etc.
It's quite a broad subject really.

thanks mate, i guess it's one of those things that will slowly pickup over time!

just trying to get a rough idea what those cherry slabs will be worth green

8 slabs, width from 430mm to 660mm and all at between 45mm and 50mm thick

1300mm long

 

cheers

[Rough Hewn]

thanks mate, i guess it's one of those things that will slowly pickup over time!
just trying to get a rough idea what those cherry slabs will be worth green
8 slabs, width from 430mm to 660mm and all at between 45mm and 50mm thick
1300mm long
 
cheers

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[gonger]

On 26/04/2020 at 10:01, Rough Hewn said:

You're not getting a good deal mate.
I give one slab away for a log.
Don't underestimate the value of what you can do.
And don't overestimate the price of logs!!!
Where are you based?
Might know someone near you to get logs from.

 

I know that its not a good deal. But it's kind of 70/30 for the big stuff for me. And i also can choose what i want. On the smaller logs we do 50/50. I am doing this milling job, because i wanted to mill the big beech. Just need some very good slabs for the start of my woodworking business.

 

Worked there for 2 weeks with some days off in between. Pictures are following.

 

In the last days, i had problems with my 60" Cannon Bar mill. It did not cut. Had to refill mid cut. And the saw was just screaming for help. Still pushed it trough. Today i tried my new chain. It's a full chisel chain "hyper skip", but i took down half of the teeth to make it similar to the oregon hyper skip. Cut's very good and smooth until i've hit 4 nails in one slab. 

After the thick one(3mm), the chain was very dull:

 

Still got some nice peaces of one other peace:

 

And for full chisel "hyper skip" 10° it cuts very smoothly. Just a quick resharpening is required. But very quickly with a 2 in 1 sharpener:

 

After that the 3120 died... Poweres on, but runs like shit and cut on 20% power. So i stopped and switched to my "backup" saw:

 

Than i realised that the backup saw requires shorter chains since it was no designed for D009. So i had to switch to my 3/8 lp bar. After 40cm inside the log i hid some big metal and it was not going any forward. So this piece is going to be end up as firewood:

 

 

[Squaredy]

Got a nice Ash log on the Lucas mill at the moment.  Not slabbing it, just getting square edged stuff, but flipped this one over to get a slab.

[gobbypunk]

Nice Ash slab any plans to make something out of it