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  1. wills-mill
    Nope, have changed the drive side blade guide and been through a few things. Bit suspicious of the alternator and belt, otherwise it's a main drive bearing.
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    The tractor and blade are an updated version of Aussie 'handheld' mills for cutting railway sleepers out in the bush... Much nastier looking things. Youtube has provided a live specimen in captivity!!! [ame] [/ame]
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    I had a little think a few weeks back, about the actual cutting surface covered by the life of a bandmill blade before it dulls and needs changing. The £10 for a sharpen is a bit dearer than a new disposable hardpoint carpentry saw.... If you take a cut on the mill that creates one face of a 14in wide board 10ft long, that's 1680 square inches. That's the equivalent of 210 cuts across a piece of genuine 4x2 (and most 4x2 is undersize). If your band lasts for 35 cuts like that, that's 58,800 square inches of cut surface, or 7350 cuts across a bit of 4x2! Not bad going!
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    All very informative! Well done guys, thank you for putting the time in.....
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    I've not got any dry, but there is a seriously big Hornbeam maiden that came down nearby last winter. If you've got an ongoing need then I'll see if I can get my paws on it? Do you start with 2 sections of 3 1/2 x 7in and glue them up to make a roughly 7 x 7 turning blank? They are massive old pins at 14 1/4! There's a lot of 'big' Hornbeam coppice round this bit of the Weald, it's mostly very fluted with lots of inclusions, and I've never had a massive amount of success drying it sensibly (and worm loves it ). Would you work with boxed heart smaller Hornbeam, or does it need to be heart free from a bigger tree? W
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    I've asked the mighty brains on the Canadian Woodworking vintage site, and I think we've struck gold.... It looks like your mill may have been built by a French firm called CD. The CD model name is still in use by a company called LD Brenta. https://forum.canadianwoodworking.com/showthread.php?63029-Anybody-recognise-this-bandmill CD Horizontal Bandsaw
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    Was just about to mention them. Quite a nifty way to get the chainsaw protection up a bit, just not very good in practice.
  9. wills-mill
    It's not a Forestor 150 or Sawmaster. It's got nice curvy styling, makes me think it's French (Belgian?). Not serious and brutal enough for a German machine.
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    Lovely work, very different from most out there! I've got a couple of big oak burrs that would certainly do you 400mm spheres. They don't include much of the original stems at all, they came off the side of a monster oak. I'm afraid the pics are a bit rubbish I've resisted milling them into slabs for bowl turning blanks, in the hope that someone needs something for a massive one piece project. In an ideal world I'd like something like £50 a cubic ft for them, which would be pretty standard for air dried heavily figured timber. If anyone thinks that's complete nonsense I'd be interested to hear thoughts and opinions? I'm not a million miles away, just south of Horsham. Contact details in the links below if you would like a cuppa and a look. All the best, W
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    A couple of chaps from a local Great Wall dealer flagged me down when they delivering a new one (they were lost). I asked if they were any good, and I've never seen such a sour look on a man's face
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    ouch!
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    Probably my best historic haul. 9 inch pins set up at about 25ft up. Jake, one of my customers brought an old beam in for re-cutting. I found 2 .303 bullets in it, and he's now found another bullet in an adjacent beam. Someone has fired 3 shots in a tight group inside a small room, it's a strange one!
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    It's not my log, but I might I might have to claim it for my personal Hall of Shame (eh Dave?) :) Thanks Badger- I think most people today wouldn't know 'GPO' which is why I said BT
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    Post a photo of the nasty things that you find hiding in timber! Today's effort, a GPO/ British Telecom special. I missed it by about 3mm, and only spotted the strands of wire when I'd turned the log and brushed some dust off . The poor old chainsaw rattled on the bracket a few times
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    I've heard no complaints about the saw head and blade guides side of things (looks a very tidy setup). The jack legs, log supports and clamps/dogs can get upset when big gnarly bits of UK Oak are loaded on. If you are thinking of regularly milling 3ft logs, then it might not be tough enough long term? I bet it's great for smooth and tidy medium sized timber.....
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    Floor scraper, unless you want to cross Mr Wravor's palm with euros for a mega-bog brush
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    The Mobius looks good from Mr Techmoan's review, keep meaning to get one.
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    Just in case it helps anyone who is doing a home fabrication job on an arch- (If you are looking for sturdy hubs with easily found bearings and lots of wheel and tyre choice) We used the rear hubs from a drum braked Vauxhall (Astra, Nova, etc going back a few years now) to make our arch. They were the one of the few hubs in the scrapyard that was easy to get off and then re-attach to our steelwork. They are each held on with 4 big allen bolts. I also got them because they had the same 4 stud wheel pattern as a pair of small Kubota flotation tyres that I'd been given. In the end we found that the standard Vaux wheel was more than adequate for some substantial pulls on sensitive ground. If you're feeling keen about brakes, then the drums are quite handy as the cable would be quite easy to work from.
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    Thanks. Every day's a school day. I've never really done anything with panel products/ MFC and all that edgebanding malarkey.
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    That bigger one is funny looking thing. Maybe made for aluminium cutting?? Edit, and it looks like the smaller one (at 180x45) might be a 'scoring' saw blade, for pre-cutting veneered and sheet boards. http://gerrymet.co.uk/acatalog/Gerrymet_Catalogue_180mm_x_45mm_bore_Conical_Scoring_Blade_78.html
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    A lot of Oak framers sandwich the glazing between neoprene gaskets. One side is to the green Oak, there's 'battening' around the glazing that's the same thickness as the unit. The outer face is capped with air dried Oak. I always think a flexi glue (Stixall??) or a bed of silicone would be a decent bit of insurance on mirrors. W
  24. wills-mill
    Could well be a set of circular multirip blades. Can you get a measurement on the bore? I'd be interested.
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    This chap earns his wages

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