milling pics and vids

[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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[se7enthdevil]

they use ekki for lock gates too as it will last for decades under water.

 

i know what you mean by that fruity smell but it can smell rancid too.

[Gray git]

Fruity/rancid all the same with my messed.up sense of smell or what I have left of it. Will forward that link into my mate, the stuff was incredibly dry, moisture meter averaged out at around 17%

 

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[shendy]

Done a bit of milling over the last week or so.

 

 

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[spudulike]

My good friend Martin "Burrell" droped off some prime milled Elm some two years ago so I could make a small rustic table for our garden. It has taken me forever to have time to do it but thanks to some saws not turning up for service........the job got done:thumbup:

 

Thanks Martin, top guy:thumbup: