milling pics and vids

[delabodge]

 

 

some lucas milling we did for a customer

 

joy

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hi joy,is that the dedicated slabber or just the slabber attachment? cheers:thumbup1:

[Ollie]

Nice bit of oak I milled yesterday. Loving the winch addition, much easier work and no vibrations off the mill.

[jamesd]

Nice work! I've got some oak similar to that to mill up, what saw/mill are you using and how thick are you milling the boards?

[Ollie]

36" Alaskan mill with stihl 880. Cuts were fairly quick and smooth. Tree was about 2 foot wide. Mostly took of 2" thick boards through and through and a couple of 1" thick. Any bigger and we'd never have shifted them

[Blaisey]

Milled a bit of Red Oak this week pretty tough but nice grain.

[Joy Yeomans]

todays job milling 50 oak "pennys" for a designer

 

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[Gray git]

Finally got round to milling some unused 'oak?' railway sleepers for a local builder, I'd been putting off the job for a while as didn't fancy destroying chains but got on with it today.

What a surprise when I tried picking the 1st 1 up, heavy is not the word for it! And pink sawdust, this is not oak.... hard stuff 2 cuts per tank on the 660 but only had to tickle the chain 1 time, all 12 came out looking like these, Butifull colours to be made into windowsills just sanded and lightly wax.

 

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[agg221]

Finally got round to milling some unused 'oak?' railway sleepers for a local builder, I'd been putting off the job for a while as didn't fancy destroying chains but got on with it today.

What a surprise when I tried picking the 1st 1 up, heavy is not the word for it! And pink sawdust, this is not oak....

 

I suspect your 'oak' is in fact jarrah, which is nice stuff and extremely durable. However it could just be Karri - I quote from wikipedia:

 

Jarrah wood is very similar to that of Karri. Both trees are found in the southwest of Australia, and the two woods are frequently confused. They can be distinguished by cutting an unweathered splinter and burning it: karri burns completely to a white ash, whereas jarrah forms charcoal.

 

Alec

[se7enthdevil]

that's neither jarrah or karri.

 

it's called ekki (the white deposit in the pores gives it away) but is also known as azobe and was used for sleepers for about 100 years and they are still there now. very tough on cutting tools i believe they use tungsten carbide for cutting it up.

 

if its going to be window sill be prepared for a massive amount of splitting and cracks appearing all over it. dry it very slowly...

 

here is a bit of info.

 

Ekki | The Wood Database - Lumber Identification (Hardwoods)

 

 

i used it for this pestle and mortar, it's rock hard...

 

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[Gray git]

Iy definitely not oak! Smelt quite fruity when milling it, some pink some more yellow but all had lovely grain and incredibly hard, did a bit of beechwood this afternoon at almost 2 X the speed of cut.

 

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