Alaskan Alec

[the village idiot]

Looks a good day

 

How much fuel did you get through?

 

Alec will clarify but I think about 3 5ltr bottles of aspen.

[agg221]

Alec will clarify but I think about 3 5ltr bottles of aspen.

 

Yep, about that, with the best part of a can of chain oil. The butt had been down a year and up off the ground on bearers. Not sure if it was that, the mineralisation or the relatively slow growth but it was particularly hard. I can normally do cuts up to 36" width on my own, but this one really needed Graham on the other end of the mill for the wide cuts and fuel consumption was definitely up as a consequence.

 

Alec

[Big J]

That looks like a very good day's production for the alaskan - those dimensioned beams take a while to cut!

 

Was there no option to extract the log for band milling? Just when you say 3 cans of aspen and a can of chain oil, I can't help but think Christ that's a lot of money to shell out on fuel/oil! With the generator for my mill, I put £70 of red diesel in it (200l) and I get about 100-150 tonnes cut for that.

[the village idiot]

That looks like a very good day's production for the alaskan - those dimensioned beams take a while to cut!

 

Was there no option to extract the log for band milling? Just when you say 3 cans of aspen and a can of chain oil, I can't help but think Christ that's a lot of money to shell out on fuel/oil! With the generator for my mill, I put £70 of red diesel in it (200l) and I get about 100-150 tonnes cut for that.

 

This log was just a little too mighty for my log arch, and wouldn't have fitted on the Mizer without cutting down first anyway.

 

Also the client is a charity and pretty cash strapped. They couldn't afford to pay the two sawyers who operate the mill. They get my time and the Oak in return for hard 'voluntary'labour at the wood and are only paying actual money for the milling.

[geoff]

Felix is the most safety concious worker I have yet encountered, and all credit to him. I blackmailed him into that particular task by hiding his lunchbox until he had made it safe.

 

In all seriousness, being a forester at heart I was all ready to fell the tree it was hung up in. Felix is not of the idiot persuasion and reasoned me out of it.

 

You took a great risk there mate, Felix the whopper cherishes that lunch box highly, there are strange mystical and wondrous things hidden in that cavernous tardis...

[the village idiot]

You took a great risk there mate, Felix the whopper cherishes that lunch box highly, there are strange mystical and wondrous things hidden in that cavernous tardis...

 

I did have a sneaky peek actually:

 

Two tins of caviar, a kilo of truffles, one bottle of babysham and a birdseye potato waffle.

[felixthelogchopper]

I did have a sneaky peek actually:

 

Two tins of caviar, a kilo of truffles, one bottle of babysham and a birdseye potato waffle.

 

Should have been quicker. I'd already eaten the Swan and Osprey pasty from Prince Phillip.

[felixthelogchopper]

This log was just a little too mighty for my log arch, and wouldn't have fitted on the Mizer without cutting down first anyway.

 

Also the client is a charity and pretty cash strapped. They couldn't afford to pay the two sawyers who operate the mill. They get my time and the Oak in return for hard 'voluntary'labour at the wood and are only paying actual money for the milling.

 

You certainly made them graft this weekend.

[geoff]

I did have a sneaky peek actually:

 

Two tins of caviar, a kilo of truffles, one bottle of babysham and a birdseye potato waffle.

 

I see old habits remain, does he still dunk the potato waffle in the Babysham?

 

He used to have a bit of a thing for oat cakes as well, used to get them from a cattle farmer..

[the village idiot]

You certainly made them graft this weekend.

 

They are all now crippled with back pain, but I did cook them a nice BBQ:001_smile: