Milling for boat building

[RobInNorfolk]

Has anyone been watching the Rebuilding Tally-ho channel on Youtube? The guy's rebuilding a yacht and there's loads of interest to milling folk: a 56' mast in episode 31; milling live oak in Georgia in ep 19 and an awesome ship's saw in ep 23. 

 

 

[gobbypunk]

Wow that mast is amazing 

[Jamespepperpot]

16 hours ago, RobInNorfolk said:

Has anyone been watching the Rebuilding Tally-ho channel on Youtube? The guy's rebuilding a yacht and there's loads of interest to milling folk: a 56' mast in episode 31; milling live oak in Georgia in ep 19 and an awesome ship's saw in ep 23. 

 

 

I have been following Leo's channel for a couple of years now. His competence and ability to think so far ahead is impressive. Its one of the only things I get excited about watching every couple of weeks. The chap he gets to mill the Live Oak in Georgia is a real character, his sawmill is bizarre but effective creation thats for sure.

[ucoulddoit]

On 05/10/2020 at 21:36, RobInNorfolk said:

Has anyone been watching the Rebuilding Tally-ho channel on Youtube? The guy's rebuilding a yacht and there's loads of interest to milling folk: a 56' mast in episode 31; milling live oak in Georgia in ep 19 and an awesome ship's saw in ep 23.

I've been following this project for almost 2 years also and the story about sourcing the Douglas fir for the mast was fascinating. I liked the story about how the forester had records from when the tree was first planted and also each time it was 'looked after' by trimming branches, etc. so that a century on, someone would be able to fell a top quality, long, straight and knot free trunk! Does anyone do that these days? A few years ago I had some old larch trees milled for cladding which yielded some boat skin quality planks and the sawmill manager talked about rumors of larch trees planted locally a century earlier for boat building which some folk round about like to believe would now be worth a fortune...... He clearly thought I might have stumbled upon this 'pot of gold', and was disappointed when I said there were just a handful in a neglected patch of trees. But who knows what's out there......?

 

Acorn to Arabella is another boat building project worth following on YouTube. It's a slightly small boat than Tally Ho and is being built almost entirely using timber felled and milled by the two chaps building the boat on the farm owned by one of their families.

 

Andrew

 

 

[The avantgardener]

I worked on a private estate North of Portsmouth a few years back. It has the best managed softwood stands that I have seen in the UK in 26 years.

The forest manager was taught by his dad, his dad by his grandad, who planted the Douglas Fir stands, that are remarkable.

I was asked to do three weeks cutting for them in October, unfortunately I have too much on, I’m rather disappointed as I don’t think I will have the chance to fell anything this magnificent again.