Some milling pics from the last few days.

[tommer9]

A fairly random set of pics from where i have been for a few days.....

First is a pic of some wet stuff milled last fiday- Beech, secondly some offcuts and the corner of the sawmill, 3 is si my Groundy doing his thang with bits that werent worth milling. Four is a big lump only just fitting on my 3' bandsaw!!! and finally a digger carrying a big lump- it amused me!

 

 

 

 

[tommer9]

And some CODIT pics- who says beech is boring timber:001_rolleyes:

 

 

 

[josharb87]

nice one tom. how long does it take to set up the hudson? is their a weight limit or just size?

[robert t]

Nice boards, :thumbup1:what you going to do with them? Were they milled on site or is that back at the yard?

[tommer9]

It took me about half an hour on that site josh a there was hard standing, in a filed a bit longer, as you have to set it up twice, then put a log on, and set it up again when the log has settlet the legs into the ground, and you have to keep checking it if on soft ground with big logs. There is no weight limit as such, but 35" diameter is about the max, and i can milll up to 17' long, but can buy 7' bolt on bed extensions. I was told today that I was more accurate than a 'mizer too, which was nice. Cant rate the machine highly enough.

 

Robert, that was a contract job, so on site. I very very rarely mill beech that i get in the yard or take down myself, as it is VERY hard to deal with- EVERYTHING likes eating it as it dries, and most people see it as a very 'boring timber', so is hard to get rid of, and it has a healthy blunting effect on tools compared to most woods.

[Ben Ballard]

nice work what thickness did you mill the big lump of beech?

[Rob D]

Nice work as usual tom. You can't beat beech for the flame spaulting effect... it's funny that people don't see beech as a good usable timber for indoors as it goes rock hard with a tight grain.

[burrell_]

nice pic tommer the colour in that wood is nice im looking forward to milling my self as iv just brought a mill off rob today cheers rob for being so helpfull

[Rowan the Bruce]

Thanks for getting me back on mate, nice one.

Good looking wood that, make some nice tables. Glad to see that the site has dried up.

[tommer9]

Cutter one- the big lump- and it was enourmous- was originally going to make huge tabletops, but i could only get 6'6" of usable timber from it, due to extensive bark inclusion at the start of the crown and rot/ dirt issues from that. I milled the oblong block into 3 each of 2", 3" and 4".

 

Rob- cheers mate. You are so right about beech. In larger trees the timber, even if not diseased, is invariably stunning to look at, with visible medullary rays even. Even when not figured or coloured it is a very attractive and as you say extremely hard indoor timber.