Alaskan projects

[Robert Raven]

Thought I'd put up a few pics of what I've been up to with the Alaskan. The Ash blew down in September, the trunk is 17 feet long and was in a deep pit so was pretty tough to extract! Is there a name for that dark marking in the middle?

 

The other pictures are of a long sill in my house, finally got round to finishing it with some oak I milled. Not the best pics as taken with a phone in artificial light but I'm pretty pleased with the result! Especially knowing how much that timber would have cost from the merchant.....

[ben-jammin]

We made this bench up today using the Alaskan. The seat was originally the upper part of the left hand stem, we ran a 2 tonne strop from each of the stems with a pulley connecting them, ran a rig line from the landy winch through the pulley and downhill onto the milled timber seat, hoisted it up and just trimmed to size whilst suspended then slotted it home. Nice to do something different the client has a woodcarver coming in to transform the left hand stem into a green man which will be a nice finishing touch I think.

[Big J]

Nice work - lovely colour in that Ash.

[wisewood]

We made this bench up today using the Alaskan. The seat was originally the upper part of the left hand stem, we ran a 2 tonne strop from each of the stems with a pulley connecting them, ran a rig line from the landy winch through the pulley and downhill onto the milled timber seat, hoisted it up and just trimmed to size whilst suspended then slotted it home. Nice to do something different the client has a woodcarver coming in to transform the left hand stem into a green man which will be a nice finishing touch I think.

 

Nice and tidy joins:thumbup:

Will you be back to see the finished piece?

[ben-jammin]

Unfortunately I can't take the credit for the joins, Chris had the saw and a keen eye on this one, I was winch monkey !! No doubt we'll be back in at some point, we've milled some other Holm Oak which had a natural curve we're (Chris) going to fashion an arch way from for the new park entrance.

[Paul Smith]

Thought I'd put up a few pics of what I've been up to with the Alaskan. The Ash blew down in September, the trunk is 17 feet long and was in a deep pit so was pretty tough to extract! Is there a name for that dark marking in the middle?

 

The other pictures are of a long sill in my house, finally got round to finishing it with some oak I milled. Not the best pics as taken with a phone in artificial light but I'm pretty pleased with the result! Especially knowing how much that timber would have cost from the merchant.....

 

How have you fastened the ladder?

[Rob D]

Very nice Rob the brown in the ash is usually called olive ash...

 

 

Bench looks good - big solid stuff like that's my favourite to make even though it's a pain to move it around.

[wisewood]

Unfortunately I can't take the credit for the joins, Chris had the saw and a keen eye on this one, I was winch monkey !! No doubt we'll be back in at some point, we've milled some other Holm Oak which had a natural curve we're (Chris) going to fashion an arch way from for the new park entrance.

 

Sounds great, get some pics uploaded when they're all done please:001_smile:

Love this kind of stuff.

[Robert Raven]

Deer man, as the log was longer than the ladder, I screwed and wedged an 18" 2x2 at each end using a spirit level to keep them dead level, then pulled lines between them, then screwed and wedged a little 'platform', half way along, just touching the strings. Ladder was screwed at the end of the log, clamped in the middle, then wedged along it's length to stop it sagging. Cut to halfway, then slid lader along and screwed down to finish the cut. First time I've done one longer than the ladder, but it worked perfectly, can't see where I paused/resumed.