milling pics and vids

[agg221]

Thanks all, plum is pretty stunning I think - you get pinks and greens in there. The bedroom floor will be elm, finished with as light a sealing colour as I can manage, so the plum should compliment it.

 

The wheels are really useful for moving medium sized logs around and have done some fairly heavy stuff. This got extracted on them:

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/alaskan-mill/49031-need-some-milling-done-near-ipswich.html

 

It's a short axle on a pair of trailer wheels, with a bit of U-channel welded on as a plate. If I did it again I would make the axle a bit longer and eventually it will get modded to stop the U-channel from rolling upside down (see pic), and to give it a handle for pushing it around unloaded. I'm also thinking about some form of mudguard arrangement to stop logs from twisting and fouling the wheels.

 

Alec

[josharb87]

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[muttley9050]

Thanks all, plum is pretty stunning I think - you get pinks and greens in there. The bedroom floor will be elm, finished with as light a sealing colour as I can manage, so the plum should compliment it.

 

The wheels are really useful for moving medium sized logs around and have done some fairly heavy stuff. This got extracted on them:

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/alaskan-mill/49031-need-some-milling-done-near-ipswich.html

 

It's a short axle on a pair of trailer wheels, with a bit of U-channel welded on as a plate. If I did it again I would make the axle a bit longer and eventually it will get modded to stop the U-channel from rolling upside down (see pic), and to give it a handle for pushing it around unloaded. I'm also thinking about some form of mudguard arrangement to stop logs from twisting and fouling the wheels.

 

Alec

 

I'll upload a picture of the similar trolley that I use when I remember to take one. It may inspire.you.

[muttley9050]

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Nice work josh. The milled face on the bottom lefft would make some lovely book matched boards.

[MattyF]

Cherry josh ?? Make sure you seal the ends if it is ... I was gutted when I looked through a stack I had milled and pegged up a few months back this week ,most of it was split! Didn't think that would happen as it had been on a pile for two years so if its green it will be far worse.

[josharb87]

Yes Cherry Matty, green, 2 stems, 4m lengths, I might ring the guy I done it for and let him know, Cheers!

[burrell_]

some ash I done yesterday ps I did not cut the side someone else started the job and cut the sides as the only had a ms660 with a 36inch bar and had to cut the sides to mill

I have a bigger mill

the heart wood was so nice I had to post pics

[pup]

I installed a bench I made at the Village Hall today. see attached vid.

Made from Oak felled on a nearby estate, would have gone for firewood, I hope this is a better use! Cheers, Pup.

[agg221]

I installed a bench I made at the Village Hall today. see attached vid.

Made from Oak felled on a nearby estate, would have gone for firewood, I hope this is a better use! Cheers, Pup.

 

That is very clever, I like it a lot

 

Do you have any side-on pictures from earlier in the construction which show how the back legs are done?

 

Alec

[agg221]

some ash I done yesterday ps I did not cut the side someone else started the job and cut the sides as the only had a ms660 with a 36inch bar and had to cut the sides to mill

I have a bigger mill

the heart wood was so nice I had to post pics

 

That's some really nice colour for ash. Doesn't seem to have lost much from the trimming up (and saved your chain a bit )

 

Alec