Big Oak To Mill

[gobbypunk]

Hi Guys some advise on milling 2 big oak buts should i try to quater it as machinery to turn it will be avaible or just through and through as nice wide oak boards would be preferd and one of the buts has some quite bad ring shake should I just cut what I can out of it avoiding the shake being new to milling not sure and obviously the customer will want as much as they can get out of it probably even some of my blood .Thanks in advance for your advise

Cheers Mark

[Big J]

Quarter it. Much more stable boards, far less waste on drying.

[Bob Slade]

Hi Mark, hard to say without some pics and or dimensions,

where in North dorset are you or where are the trees.

[gobbypunk]

Hi Bob I am in a small village called okeford fitzpaine as are the oak buts but my workshop is in shaftesbury if you or any of the guys on hear are ever near do pop in and sat hi as for dimensions about 1+1/2 round and 5/6mtrs long cant get pics until next week

Cheers Mark