Monkey milling

[tommer9]

Got the Alaskan out today to slice up this piece of Monkey Puzzle, courtesy of Combined Tree Services. Thanks Dave.:thumbup:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-jhNUH4rR0]YouTube - Milling monkey puzzle.[/ame]

Saw was getting a bit dull by this stage, and you can hear it catch quite often. This was the third cut!

[Treewarrior]

Good vid tommer. Do you not use wedges on the way down the cut?

[tommer9]

No- i used one towards the end. I used to religiously carry offcuts of 6mm cladding or ply etc and put them in as i went along. Nowadays i hardly ever get the mill out as i have the bandsaw, and on the vast majority of stuff i am slabbing with the alaskan it is a thick enough slab that it doesnt flex and trap the saw anyway. Having said that, it is not best practice, and wedges or something ought to be used really.

[Stephen Blair]

have you cable tied the throttle mate

[Rob D]

Never milled monkey puzzle before - what does it come up like when it's all treated?

[dangerous brian]

Hey tom who was the menacing looking guy in the back ground looked like a pikey.

[Rob D]

Yeh he looks a really nasty piece of work! Grave robber I expect - just waiting for night to fall.... Or maybe just a necrophiliac getting his breath back after a hard session:wink:

 

 

 

[tommer9]

have you cable tied the throttle mate

 

 

haha-spotted:sneaky2:

 

Never milled monkey puzzle before - what does it come up like when it's all treated?

 

Really nice timber im told. It is certainly straight grained and relatively close grained. I put it into thick slabs- one was 5"!- so i can resaw it on the bandsaw for a finer finish. Thats assuming the bands wont jam up with the hideous amout of gunmy white sap that oozes out. It has very nice colour to it also, and if im right, it sands to a pretty good finish. I am hoping that by leaving it for a few months in stick i will be able to re-saw it without too much of the sap problems.

 

BTW, I used to be a necrophiliac..............until some rotten %$^& split on me!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Simon Rotheram]

Nice vid Tom, why was the tree felled at about 1m high?

[dangerous brian]

We felled the tree in that manner to stop it from striking headstones we only had about 15foot of felling space,idealy we should have chogged it down lower but the timber was that heavy and it werent the nicest thing to climb even in spikes,just wanted it down.