Alaskan mill sub forum

[plippy]

havent forgot rob, well i do when im at the wood yard with the decent wood! will try and take pics next time.

 

hi phill, am i right in thinking we met at jonsies?

 

sounds daft, but howd you earn the £800 from the planks? and in what time frame? and planks of what? who have you found you can sell them to? or are you being paid to convert logs to planks?

 

sorry for the questions, but i wouldnt mind earning that too now that ive got an alaskan!

 

josh

 

hiya josh

yea we did meet at the show, i do tree surgery and all the estimates i do that entail felling i encourage the client to have them planked for benches, rather than have it logged up,

 

i recently felled 58 leylandii and i spoke to rob about them, the client has alot of land and wanted raised beds around the garden for the roses and veggie plotts, all i did was take the top and bottom of and hey presto you have a sleeper that has that rustic look, it doesnt have to be perfect, if ya happy millin for a reasonable day rate and fuel expenses, then dont complain cos it'l fill ya quiet days

 

also lots of elderly people prefer raised beds so they dont need to bend over so far, if a client has a mum or dad thats gettin on a bit, encourage the raised beds and just cut them to the length they want

 

your providing another service for the client that they get something out of the tree waste.

 

wot is ya thoughts on the raised bed idea?

[Catweazle]

I'll bet you could build a nice log cabin from logs with a flat cut on opposite sides.

 

I might have a go at it, how much is one of these mills ?

[Andy Collins]

Hmmmm liking the rustic raised beds idea, can see potential for those.

[plippy]

Hmmmm liking the rustic raised beds idea, can see potential for those.

 

as u can see from the pic i was makin a bench but all around it here are loads that av been milled and in the back ground there was a lot more i had to do, but they pay was fair, i was there for 4 days logging and milling

Edited September 19, 2009 by plippy