successful first weekend milling

[farmerjohn]

Hi All,

i have been wanting to get some oak milled up for some time (over a year since it was off-rooted) but various factors, mainly time and somewhere descent to store air drying timer (time again to get area set up) have slowed me down. Last saturday i finally got my timber to the mill and had a awesome day getting through most of it. It was very hard work, not so much the milling but the re-stacking of the planks off my trailer into stickered piles the following day. The 65mm thick oak 650mm side and 8ft long nearly beat me, i could only just about lift them about. That said, after all the hard work i am feeling very chuffed with my timber, and are rearing to get back to it this weekend (finger crossed that the weather will be as good again) to get some more ready, just a waiting game before i can get it into the workshop and start making things from it.

 

I plan to put another pallet on top and stack same height again, get some weight on, tin sheets and maybe scaffold / derbies netting over the front to help shield from sunlight. I need to put soom bearers from the ground under the overhangig oak on the left hand side of the left stack and sticker the unsupported ends too.

 

Regards, John

[agrimog]

why 65mm thick?, have you got a purpose in mind

[delabodge]

nice pics mate,,,

[Big J]

The pippy oak is especially nice. Very good stacking too, though I'd want to see stickers right at the end of the boards. You'd be amazed how much they can move when unsupported!

[Daniël Bos]

Hi All,

i have been wanting to get some oak milled up for some time ........... I need to put some bearers from the ground under the overhanging oak on the left hand side of the left stack and sticker the unsupported ends too.

 

Regards, John

 

The pippy oak is especially nice. Very good stacking too, though I'd want to see stickers right at the end of the boards. You'd be amazed how much they can move when unsupported!

 

So do you both

[Big J]

So do you both

 

Haha!

 

That will teach me to skim read when I'm half asleep!

[Rob D]

Nice series of pics to go through - you'll have plenty there after getting through that lot!