2 days milling lumpy beech.

[tommer9]

I had to blow the dust off the alaskan mill yesterday a this was too big for the hudson at 43"!!

Milled the really wide stuff at 12' long and a mixture of 2" and 3" boards. Everything else to 2". Meripilus had given it beautiful character.

 

 

 

 

[alex_w]

Wow,

 

That is an impressive lump of beech

[Paul Smith]

What are you going to do with the boards?

[Ben Ballard]

great looking wood niceone:thumbup1:

[Big J]

Lovely stuff tommer! If only customers would wake up and realise Beech is lovely timber, rather than obsessing on Oak all the time.

[tommer9]

What are you going to do with the boards?

 

I was just milling it for someone. They will eventually use it. Its on a large property who use as much of their own timber as they can. They have their own joinery workshop.

 

Lovely stuff tommer! If only customers would wake up and realise Beech is lovely timber, rather than obsessing on Oak all the time.

 

They seem to have this view of beech as the plain boring stuff that old fashioned childrens cots were made of etc, but if you get really big trees, esp which have had disease, the figuring is almost second to none. How many times I have heard "well beech is a bit boring, we were after some oak really....":001_rolleyes:

 

Here's some more from another job a while back. (affected by merip again) also about 40" diameter.

[tommer9]

I never uploaded this one from today either:blushing:

[geoff]

Stunning figure there in that wood,what a joy to see it!

[David Goss]

 

Here's some more from another job a while back. (affected by merip again) also about 40" diameter.

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Wow that is a stunning piece of wood:thumbup:

I need to get myself a mill but i would probably get thrown out of the flat when i start hanging the bikes out the window to make room for it

[Big J]

I was just milling it for someone. They will eventually use it. Its on a large property who use as much of their own timber as they can. They have their own joinery workshop.

 

 

 

They seem to have this view of beech as the plain boring stuff that old fashioned childrens cots were made of etc, but if you get really big trees, esp which have had disease, the figuring is almost second to none. How many times I have heard "well beech is a bit boring, we were after some oak really....":001_rolleyes:

 

Here's some more from another job a while back. (affected by merip again) also about 40" diameter.

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That is a wonderful board. The beginnings of spalting, without the figure being too busy or overwhelming.

 

For me it's a question of quality too. It's much easier to get good straight and clean beech than it is oak. I know of a tree about a half mile from my workshop that is only about 30 inches in diameter at chest height, but the perfectly clean and straight stem extends for about 50ft before there are anything more than twigs coming off it.

 

Jonathan