Cedar for milling - Ashtead, Surrey

[nepia]

I enjoyed this thread, I was glad to see the timber go to good homes rather than a firewood stack round the back of someones shed.

 

My very own feelgood thread then. Thank you too.

[Treemoose]

A great week this week - a baby daughter my first (wren) and a lovely cedar to mill up!

Im a novice with the Alaskan mill and this was the first sizeable lump iv worked with. Really pleased with the results but totally agree next time it will be 8' boards! I was unloading them 10pm that night

Hopefully I will be able to update this thread in a couple years with my 2 year old sitting on some lovely cedar furniture

 

We need fire wood but i do love being able to use wood I get from jobs if thats milling it or making some utensils or even a couple coasters (make good prezies when nicely done) I feel like I keep a memory and I respected the tree by immortalising a small part of it and using it - that might just be me but I'm sure a few others feel the same and if you injoy it then why not

 

Thanks very much Jon it was a real pleasure your a gent sir

 

(sorry if I was a bit of a zombie that day my sleep pattern has taken a beating)

[clooneskert wood]

Hello all.

I cut about 30 ton of cedar recently and milled it all with my oscar 230.

Only prob was a guy came to my yard and bought all of it. Silly me didnt keep

any.:001_rolleyes:

Brilliant machine and with a deakin flathers blades it was like slicing with a sharp knife. The only thing was the amount of sawdust the blades made.

I also got greenheart and yellowheart boys they are hard timber. But

like that too the DF blades brill. Has anyone any ideas on what to use the

yellowheart for? Its fab timber. Thinking of making a porch with some as

pillars.

[Big Beech]

not sure who milled this, haven't read the entire thread, but perhaps a dust mask would of been high on the list!!!

 

simon

[nepia]

Fair point but 'twasn't me guv. The dusty pic looks worse than it was for the cutter; it wasn't bl;owing in his face but when you take hours of cutting into consideration, done day after day yeah, you're probably right.

 

Jon

[Bentonarb]

Hi Jon

 

Contact my friend Broady Hall he is looking for something like this

 

His number is 07798782484

 

He will collect

 

Regards

 

Graham

[nepia]

Evening Graham.

 

I'd love to help but this is an old thread! Maybe someone else in the Surrey/Kent/Sussex/S.London area can help...

[Treemoose]

A dust mask and some aspen fuel would of come in handy but you live an learn:001_smile:

[Treemoose]

So almost a year on and the cedar is about 12% moisture and thought i would sand up a 5' board to see how it turned out. Needed something to put my feet and coffee on so made a simple table. I have about 5 or 6 more 5' boards and 10 10' boards all 2" thick and around 30" wide so maybe some garden benches are in order?

[Tommy_B]

Thats very tidy. Sweet and Simple. Like it