milling pics and vids

[agg221]

Found a spare 15mins this evening so milled up the piece of plum from Nepia. 3' long, 14" across at the widest point. Still looking for more plum/damson/blackthorn/prunus pissardi if anyone happens across some.

 

Alec

[muttley9050]

Is that with the new bands on the ripsaw alec? Looks a lovely finish.

[agg221]

Is that with the new bands on the ripsaw alec? Looks a lovely finish.

 

It is indeed the new bands. To be honest the finish usually comes out like that, it's just that some of the bands tend to follow the grain and give a wavy surface rather than flat. If you tension them enough to stop it, they snap at the weld. This was with the first of the new bands and although the surface area cut so far isn't that large, it's cutting true and hasn't snapped, so all good so far. Will be a real test when it starts ripping through long lengths of elm.

 

Alec

[Theocus]

I've had this piece of holly in my yard for ages, we found it on a clearance site two years ago and it was already on the deck and looked solid. Am going to make a table from it hopefully.

[muttley9050]

Nice one theo.

[muttley9050]

It is indeed the new bands. To be honest the finish usually comes out like that, it's just that some of the bands tend to follow the grain and give a wavy surface rather than flat. If you tension them enough to stop it, they snap at the weld. This was with the first of the new bands and although the surface area cut so far isn't that large, it's cutting true and hasn't snapped, so all good so far. Will be a real test when it starts ripping through long lengths of elm.

 

Alec

 

Yes that would be a test alright, keep wanting to test my mills in this way, but nobody's obliging enough to supply the elm.

[WoodED]

quick question, once milled, how to you stop each board from splitting while there drying?

[Big J]

quick question, once milled, how to you stop each board from splitting while there drying?

 

That is a quick question with a very long and open ended answer!

 

Whether a board splits or not depends on the following factors:

 

* The time of year that it is being milled - summer is generally worse due to warmer, drier air resulting in initial drying being too rapid.

* The drying environment, is the air too dry and is the end grain subject to direct sunlight?

* Inherent tension in the timber - ash is a bugger for long heavy splits due to tension.

* Stickering - are there stickers at the ends of the boards (unstickered board ends split more)

* Quality of timber - better quality logs are far far less likely to distort/split than poorer quality.

 

So in an ideal world, you'd mill perfect quality winter felled hardwoods in December, stack them (perfectly) in a barn with no direct sunlight but a reasonable air flow and all would be well! Reality is slightly more complicated, but that is the ideal scenario. Some people paint end grain but in my experience, it makes little or no difference.

 

Jonathan

[burrell_]

not really anything great but milled some chestnut that my mate

he wants to use as 4x4 posts for a outside table and some 2in slabs to cut up for 2x4 for the under side of the table

I believe he is going put walnut or elm on the top so be interesting to see once done

[Big Beech]

Boom Town Fair, Winchester

first go editing with some music, please go easy on me!!!

 

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