milling pics and vids

[agg221]

Thought I'd stick some pics of this up as it was milled in the dark last night by the light of the headlights - didn't get to see what it looked like until this morning. Really nice piece of pear, max width about 13" with some ripple at the top (see last pic).

 

Alec

[Big Beech]

i had a big pear, 22" /25" 2 years ago i think, before i had a mill. made some lovely firewood!!

[richardwale]

Thought I'd stick some pics of this up as it was milled in the dark last night by the light of the headlights - didn't get to see what it looked like until this morning. Really nice piece of pear, max width about 13" with some ripple at the top (see last pic).

 

Alec

 

Lovely boards. Are they for sale?

[agg221]

Lovely boards. Are they for sale?

 

They are quite a beautiful colour - it's hard to capture it but they really are that sort of buttery golden colour (compare with the dullness of the background and you can see it isn't a trick of the camera).

 

In the long term I may well have some spare, but I would recommend not buying unseasoned pear as it has a really nasty tendency to twist and split. I would let the miller (ie me) take the risk! Once it's dry it's extremely stable and takes a really crisp finish.

 

Alec

[richardwale]

Hi Alec, ok I'll wait for it to season. Am i seeing you next week with the oak boards?do you have any other boards, approx a inch thick, waney edge for sale?

[agg221]

Hi Richard, yes and yes - I'll drop you a PM.

 

Alec

[SteveA]

14" width, 9" depth, which is big enough for most things. I have used it for milling a lot of boards, and dimensioned timber for the extension, both of which it does with ease. I reckon it does a 12" width x 20' long cut in oak in about 2mins, with a kerf of about 1mm. It will do about 6 boards like that to a tank of fuel in the 044 that powers it.

 

It's a lot more temperamental than a chainsaw mill though and on a bad day it will eat saw bands.

 

Alec

 

Didn't know you could get a bandsaw unit to fit a chainsaw. Who makes and/or supplies them in the UK?

 

We're going to need loads of weather boards cut for our barn, could be from oak using a mobile chainsaw/bandsaw.... sounds like much less of a workout compared to doing all of it with an Alaskan.

[agg221]

Didn't know you could get a bandsaw unit to fit a chainsaw. Who makes and/or supplies them in the UK?

 

We're going to need loads of weather boards cut for our barn, could be from oak using a mobile chainsaw/bandsaw.... sounds like much less of a workout compared to doing all of it with an Alaskan.

 

Unfortunately nobody supplies them in the UK - they are made by Ripsaw in the US and are very difficult to import (I bought mine secondhand on ebay after two years waiting for one to turn up). You can get an impression of what it can do from the video posted by Burrell on page 15 of this thread - from about 1:05 onwards.

 

Alec

[SteveA]

Yeah i did see the video, and it looks brilliant. Big shame that nobody is making or supplying them here.

 

Any other bandsaws worth considering?.... that is, portable ones.

[John Hughes]

I found these photos of a couple of years ago.

A trailer load of spruce ready to be towed back to Essex and no I don't tow it all the way with the baby Zetor.