Today's milling

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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:

 
 

If the teeth are sharp, but the engine is screaming, it's the depth gauges.
Always use a depth gauge tool!
Especially for milling.

After finishing a cut keep the Saw going, for 30-60 seconds, blipping the throttle occasionally.
This allows the engine to cool slower.

If you get logs from a forester they won't have metal in them.
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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.

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[Squaredy]

9 hours ago, gobbypunk said:

Nice Ash slab any plans to make something out of it 

No It is in the stack ready for sale next year or the one after.

[gobbypunk]

So if you don’t mind me asking how much is that slab of Ash worth ,pricing of slabs is something I am struggling with especially now I have a mill it’s something I defo need to get my head around.

 Thanks Mark 

[Forest2Furniture]

26 minutes ago, gobbypunk said:

So if you don’t mind me asking how much is that slab of Ash worth ,pricing of slabs is something I am struggling with especially now I have a mill it’s something I defo need to get my head around.

 Thanks Mark 

The best way to work out what to charge is see what sawmills & wood yards in your area are charging per cu/ft for similar timber then work out the cu/ft of your stuff and away you go.

[Squaredy]

On 03/05/2020 at 10:37, gobbypunk said:

So if you don’t mind me asking how much is that slab of Ash worth ,pricing of slabs is something I am struggling with especially now I have a mill it’s something I defo need to get my head around.

 Thanks Mark 

Well for me the starting point is always to work out how many cubic feet of timber it is which in this case is about 4.33.  Then multiply it by a price per cubic foot which for me with good ash is £28.75.  This gives a price of around £125.  Sometimes I then bump the price up a bit if I can see it is really spectacular.  Realistically this is the price for the piece when it has fully seasoned in a couple of years, and of course what sometimes happens is it cracks and distort so ends up not being worth so much.  If it is no good as a slab when dried it gets re-sawn and sold as square edged boards which usually means lots of waste.

[Jamespepperpot]

A wind blown oak log i milled a little while back for a client who wanted to use it to build a tree house. Milled in one day on my own and was 1.4m wide. To give the stack scale, the bottom row of timbers are 2x6". 

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A wind blown oak log i milled a little while back for a client who wanted to use it to build a tree house. Milled in one day on my own and was 1.4m wide. To give the stack scale, the bottom row of timbers are 2x6". 

That's awesome.
What a stack of timber, to cut, in one day on your own.
Great job James
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[timbernut]

Milled this this morning, 2”boards (widest 32”) the tops of the middle ones pretty rotten sadly, squeezed out 2no 1” ones to make the book matched bit in last picture

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Milled this this morning, 2”boards (widest 32”) the tops of the middle ones pretty rotten sadly, squeezed out 2no 1” ones to make the book matched bit in last picture

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