The Logmaster is finally housed...

[Big J]

We've finally got the roof over the mill. It's staggering how difficult one of Scotland's main forestry management companies found it to delivery a load with half 4.9m half 6.2 with two 12.2m lengths in addition to that. It took a month and the 40 footers were still undersized! Anyway, the massively over sized and over built barn is complete and I'm very chuffed with it. 4 days including all the milling and ground works for me and a helper.

 

I promise to get some action shots later this week!

 

 

 

 

 

Jonathan

[s.varty]

WOW! if ever theres a nuclear war , I know where im heading for shelter. Like that a lot:thumbup1:

[Big J]

Forgot to say, all beams cut on the Logmaster except the two main beams. The uprights are 12x12 and sunk 3.5ft in with 0.75 cubic metres of concrete at the foot of each one. The main beams are different sizes (according to what I could get out of the log). The front one (facing the prevailing wind) is 12x9 by 40ft, and the rear one is 11x7, also 40ft. They were chainsaw milled, which was tremendously dull (320ft of chainsawmilling spruce is purgatory!).

 

All cross beams are 6x3.5 and 20ft long, and the roof is box profile galvenised sheet.

[delabodge]

looks sweet,,well done mate,

[scraggs]

Thats not going anywhere

Looking good and will be good to see some video of the saw working

[NI Tree]

nice one john

[Rob D]

Awesome set up Jon

[Peter]

Does the number 42 stop here?

[marj]

looks good,

i take it the fence comes down easy enough for when your milling off site

[Big J]

looks good,

i take it the fence comes down easy enough for when your milling off site

 

Actually not mobile with it yet (need to sort out the tow hitch and lights) but will be in spring.

 

The fence is being moved up anyway (slight expansion of yard) but as it stands it's quite easy to thread in through the front with the forklift. I left myself plenty of space.

 

The shed will be wired up shortly with lights and a socket, as well as an extractor to draw the sawdust away from the mill and into a easy to deal with pile.

 

Jonathan