Big Oak

[openspaceman]

40 minutes ago, gobbypunk said:

I am going to dismantle it and use the bits for furniture .

Vandal ?

 

I used to wholesale logs to a chap whose yard had the barn his father used, it was sign written around the door "?? Osborne Firewood Faggot and Pimp Merchant", anyway it was being used by an archery target manufacturer and he was using a similar machine with the blades removed and somehow mounted two spools of twine on a flywheel. Straw was fed in the feed and PVA glue applied to the twine as it wound around the straw.The rolls of straw passed to a wheel  and were pressed by a second wheel into a spiral as more glue was added between the rolls until it was the right diameter for the target.

 

I had to ask what the machine was and he explained it was a chaff cutter

[daveatdave]

4 hours ago, RobInNorfolk said:

What’s the dangerous looking slicing machine in the yard picture? Victorian branch logger or mangle wurzel chopper?

its a straw cutter

[lewiswood]

Hi guys check out this big oak we moved to my yard on Sunday 42inch, thinking a new bar for the Alaskan

Is that the tree that was fallen in the hedge on the side of the road just down from you?

[gobbypunk]

Hi Mr lewiswood yep it is how did you guess that 

[lewiswood]

I see it had been moved and then your post and put 2 & 2 together. Glad it’ll be put to good use. I assumed it would only be good for firewood

[Marc Lewis]

I've a feeling a little self praise is going on in your post.
 
Hope you're keeping well mate.

Haha, yes it was. Sorry only just seen this, playing around on the forum.

[AJStrees]

Nice log there mate. What you gonna make?

[gobbypunk]

Hi I have 4 butts ,so one is defo getting milled ,maybe 2 but I need a big milling bar as it’s 42 inch diameter and then we have a 3 way union that we are thinking about chainsaw carving into Cerberus to be are guard dog at the end of our track and the last bit we just don’t have a plan for yet,if anybody who has a big chainsaw milling bar wants to come and help me mill this oak then P M me 

Cheers Mark 

[Josh Purton]

Where abouts are you Mark? I have the 87” Double headed bar with two 880’s and mill, wouldn’t mind helping out for some slabs. 

[gobbypunk]

Hi Josh , I am in Dorset and if you are up for coming and helping that would be awesome, I have a woodland mill so if we had time we could cut some proper quarter sawn slabs and some of them would be about 2 ft wide I think there are some photos of the butt on hear somewhere.

Cheers Mark