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At a previous mill I worked at, we had extremely positive feedback from the local pressure treatment firm with (not Balsam) pop. So there's plenty of opportunity for pretending it's the same as every other kind of treatable whitewood.

<tumbleweed blows past> Perhaps we'd all like to go and get tickets for the tools that we use that are the 'professional kit' of other trades? " You there, Treeman. You can use a chainsaw, but you must call a grown up if you want to change a brake pad, put up a light fitting in your workshop, make a weld, stick some Celcon blocks together or put a structural fixing into concrete. There's a good lad now," There are a lot of things out there that carry potential for injury or a liability claim. Perhaps we shouldn't bleat about others using 'our' kit or carrying out 'our' techniques. It's not a medieval Guild with closed trade secrets.....

It is a headache working out the time involved. I made up all the components for 10 in a relaxed day (excluding the milling) with other things thrown in, and that was the first time through the process. I then knocked most of them together at the (miserably wet) Weald Wood Fair as something to do on the stand (I hate standing around like a lemon with nothing to do). There's a fair bit of machine setup, it would be most effective to have enough material to hand ready to go to make up 50 or so. I suppose it depends how mad I go with assembly jigs and the like to get them finished, but 15 to 20 a day wouldn't be too impossible.

Looking through the brochure, it looks like the machine has a PTO that works in a conventional way externally, but is driven by a hydraulic motor. The current Diverto manages 65hp from the PTO, so isn't going to be much of a weapon for chipping. If they take off then I'm sure that there will be growlier models. It reminds me a bit of some of the tasks that Huddig can carry out [ame] [/ame] Like the grousers Eddie! The shear and grab is the business. It's very interesting to see people starting to put some serious operating hrs behind these bits of kit, and finding where the best combos and compromises come from

I've had an issue when trying to attach images. I get an error message in the pop up attachment window that says there's a security token missing. Is that down to me or the server/ vbulletin?? Tony C Hamadryad mentioned it as well....

Aye, I've just had a security token issue. I'll have a word in the 'glitches' thread in General Chat. Keep up the good work Tony, it all looks great!

Yup. Awesome machine but looks like hipster management bait

Alternatively, ditch the current courier and use a 'no print' service https://www.parcelmonkey.co.uk/no-printing

He is being a bit of a knob, but you are also expecting him to do some of your legwork on a collection only sale, which is a bit much for the money he's received. I've had some great machine buys on ebay that need setting up on a pallet at the sellers end and hanging around for the pallet company. If that's the case I offer to pay an extra charge to cover their time and material, if it costs me £50 but saves £100 in diesel and a day driving all over the shop getting grumpy and stuck in traffic, then I'm happy.

I would guess it's a little like Turkey Oak (pretty shocking) but it's a bit of an unknown. L

Steel is good, if you're stuck with wood these work well- Pioneering projects | Anchorages | The Dead Man anchor

Send in a final invoice by recorded 'signed for' post, with a covering letter saying that you'll start legal proceedings if full payment not received within x days. Soon focuses a few minds.

Leave an 8 inch tail minimum.... Ignore putting the strap into the cutter when you're tensioning

'Keep it Simple' 'Get it working well then working fast' Most of the chainsaw processors I've seen rotate the bar around a pivot and have a handle over the top that the operator draws down to make the cut. Surely that's much more straightforward and less 'numb' than a spring or ram with no feedback or sensitivity? Especially as the flow sounds marginal at best.... EDIT: if you really don't want to get the grinder and welder out, and are stuck with your straight vertical movement, why don't you put a spring on as the return and have a cord attached to a foot pedal as the downstroke. Less hydraulic gubbins and a decent bit of sensitivity?

If you get away from pallet strapping that uses crimps and use Cordstrap, you get the option to re-tension when the billets shrink or if the timber shifts. https://www.cordstrap.com/en/Products/Strapping/Composite-Strapping-and-Buckles/ The system isn't cheap to start with to get set up(£300 ish) but you won't look back.

very very dangerous! The paper catalogue is lethal....

It's got to be possible, I'm just not entirely sure how it would all be detailed conventionally. Glazing is one of those many things that I don't have much experience of! If you could run a sketch past a local glazing firm to see if they'd be happy with the feasibility of doing it in timber. If they start pulling faces and sucking teeth it might be best to look again. Do you know roughly what the glazing may weigh per m2 and what sizes you may be dealing with per unit? I've left boards lent against walls in the sunshine and come back to them after a month or so and they've lost loads more moisture and stayed remarkably tidy and straight when compared to green oak Pringles/ propellors that would be cracked to bits. Perhaps I need to put some 2 1/2in boards in stick with your name on. W

Hi A, the roves and nails are lovely but they add a fair amount of time to fit, they can be quite technical little swines to get right. EDIT: The round timber is oversized fencing material, usually 12 to 18in diameter. I've been keeping away from massive sawlog sizes, some of them are lovely, but most really big Chestnut I get to see has, errr, issues. Are you looking at doing a lantern up on a roof? Very smart. I've been milling a fair bit of structural Chestnut and everyone involved's been very complimentary about the behaviour. Once the initial tension in the log has been worked around, it seems to be less trouble than green oak for movement and cracking. Despite some of the clever glazing systems using neoprene gaskets to take up movement between timber and glass, I think I'd be tempted to pre-dry the structural members, even if it was only for 6 months or so. If time wasn't an issue, then I suppose the frame could be assembled and left to settle in (unglazed) for a while. The trusses aren't my work, couple of very skilled local framers

I thought you might like a look at my favourite workshop machine, a horizontal slot morticer made by Rye. It's a neat little thing that knocks out round ended mortices really quickly. For joinery use the mortices are usually pretty small, but it happily runs 1/2in router bits which I size to accomodate rounded battens that have been sent through the Moretens (Logosol) PH260. [ame= ] [/ame] The hurdles are made up out of fresh sawn Sweet Chestnut, I've been fixing them together in different ways as a bit of an experiment/ customer choice- some with stainless screws, some with marine silicon bronze ringshank nails, and some with copper roves and nails, which are usually used for clinker boat planking. All lovely fixings and very long lived Sorry for the unfocused wobbl-o-vision, there's a decent camera on hand for future videos!

Is your worktop a lump of reclaimed chemistry lab workbench? We've had a few come through over the years. You can tell the bench tops where the naughty boys sat at the back of the room, loads of graffiti, name carving and poxy chewing gum

I don't know if Herr Grube has started shipping this way. They usually have about 50 pages of chokers in the catalogue so I'm sure they'd do dyneema chokers for you? https://www.grube.de/timber-moving/skidding-chains-accessories.html EDIT: Found them, hope you didn't spend too much at Christmas! https://www.grube.de/timber-moving/dynaforce-and-accessories.html

Thanks for that. Excellent write up!

This wound me up along those exact lines, it was put up on a business training website with a caption along the lines of "hey well, let's all work on our personalities" rather than "I best pull my finger out and learn about my job/ company/ industry instead of driving my employer on to the rocks by being a know-nothing bullsh*tter" We are rewarding a culture of smugness. Perhaps it's always been so?

That's absolutely true. Unfortunately that's not the point raised by the daft image. The rate that water drops off the Pennines and other uplands is pretty insane. I had a poke around the Environment Agency website maps, you can see the spikes in river flow at the measurement stations, and after these rains the levels go way up, then plummet back to normal in the upland sections of the rivers. Further downstream (and hours later) the water arrives unstoppably but behaves in a much lazier fashion. Environment Agency - River Levels: Swale, Ure, Nidd and Upper Ouse At the moment Harrogate has been normal for 48hrs, but York is only just starting to tail off.

If anyone can keep the moisture content of Saddleworth Moor down, then they are welcome to it I don't know how it stacks up, does it make any difference to transpiration and fluid movement if you change from grassland to a broadleaf canopy? I'm sure that grass on an equivalent area to a mature Oak's drip line must throw out a massive amount of moisture. Quite interested if anyone knows. Do we want more transpiration? Are we better off with a madcap scheme to shrinkwrap the Atlantic and keep the rainfall down?