Cedar shingles

[waterbuoy]

Thanks

I'm about to build a small cabin in our garden for my wife to work in and, to make space, will be cutting down four sizeable larch trees - all >100' tall and dbh of around 18" to 2'.  My pal has a woodmizer so I'll start doing some rough sums to see if it is a viable alternative to steel sheeting - if not then I will mill the timber to clad part of workshop that will be phase III of the planned works.

[Youngstu]

I'd been reading this thread earlier as I' fancied having a go at some point then I saw this post on a fb group.

A specialist shingle making machine and I think he's still got all of his fingers too

Garnet Davison restores a Lloyd Shingle Machine dating back to 1888,...

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[waterbuoy]

what could possibly go wrong!😬

[openspaceman]

59 minutes ago, Youngstu said:

I'd been reading this thread earlier as I' fancied having a go at some point then I saw this post on a fb group.

A specialist shingle making machine and I think he's still got all of his fingers too

Garnet Davison restores a Lloyd Shingle Machine dating back to 1888,...

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43 K views, 843 likes, 24 loves, 121 comments, 184 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Leopold Photographic Art: Garnet Davison restores a Lloyd Shingle Machine dating back to...

 

Marvelous machine.

 

I noted the larch shingles I recently saw  were parallel and this machine made proper tapered ones.

 

I liked the way it advanced the billet in alternate steps but wondered how it managed to clamp at the same time.

 

Someone previously posted their machine to do taper cuts on a woodmizer and I could see much the same thing being done to cut shingles from multiple billets.

[Mr. Ed]

Great video - I especially enjoyed the insouciance with which he reaches for the next one without looking. 
 

I’m not seeing the tapering. Or is that the alternating long and short ratchets, so the top advances over the bottom and then vice versa?

[openspaceman]

12 hours ago, Mr. Ed said:

Great video - I especially enjoyed the insouciance with which he reaches for the next one without looking. 
 

I’m not seeing the tapering. Or is that the alternating long and short ratchets, so the top advances over the bottom and then vice versa?

There are others:

 

 

 

This clearly shows the taper but the alternating advancing mechanism is a bit hard for me to follow still

[Macpherson]

23 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

There are others:

 

 

 

This clearly shows the taper but the alternating advancing mechanism is a bit hard for me to follow still

 

Great video, so enjoyably casual for an unguarded machine👍

[Dan Maynard]

I was working yesterday at a Colt house built in the sixties, apparently it's a British firm that is still going. Timber frame with shingle walls, slate roof. I think it was Thuja.

 

[Mr. Ed]

I associate Colt houses with Essex? They went into ventilation after the prefab culture faded (coming back now of course). 

[Dan Maynard]

12 hours ago, Mr. Ed said:

I associate Colt houses with Essex? They went into ventilation after the prefab culture faded (coming back now of course). 

Quite possibly, we're Cambridgeshire (or Huntingdonshire when that was built). Owners are thinking about extending, Colt still have all the drawings to knock up extra sections.