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    Some of the large softwood mills don't like WRC, especially summer felled as the bark comes away in massive strips and clogs debarkers and saws. It's all a bit of a guesstimate depending on access, log size and quantity, but I wouldn't mind paying 80p to £2 per cu ft for WRC. Bigger the better, nice fat dumpy overgrown huge hedge trees are awesome. -------------------- Leb/ Deodar/ Atlas Cedar are probably in the same price bracket, we've not used it much for cladding but do tend to mill it for chunky decks, seating, outdoor tables and quite a bit for interior work, excellent for a big shelf or desk. Much cheaper than Oak, nice and stable, great to play with and really good outside.... Carvers seem to like it too, there are some huge bits of Cedar out there. Quite happy to look at reasonable quantities that people are felling in W or E Sussex and Surrey.
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    Feel slightly let down:( Used and dirty
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    Morning all. We met a chap who runs a mobile mill in Normandy who'd had a Bulgarian 'company' trying to pull a scam. A parcel turned up out of the blue for him with some sensible waffly paperwork, some samples of boards and a bag of heating pellets. All very attractive prices and they're obviously looking for agents etc etc. They wanted a deposit to get the first lorry load to the door. He was fairly keen, got back in touch as he wanted to go and see their facilities and got nothing in reply. He had a quick poke around and found that the firm didn't exist and had a non existent VAT number. It's a fairly normal scam, preying on the greedy/vulnerable. Look out for those 'bargains'
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    So right! that 90 degree swing wouldn't be too clever for a four stroke....
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    They give a price of $6200 NZ on the website, which is £3190 according to Mr Google. Saw engine not included. I like the look of it, I know it's way more complex and heavy than an Alaskan but the small kerf it's taking out is brilliant and gives the saw engine a lot more chance of getting a reasonable amount of wood cut from a few litres of 2T mix. Four stroke sounds sensible, but I suppose the beauty of a big 2 stroke saw is the high revs and high blade speed when direct driven. It's got the capability of double cutting, so in theory you can knock out 6 x 12 beams as a maximum, not to be sniffed at. Quite an elegant little beastie all in all
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    Oddly enough, that full width central plank with true quartersawn/radial cut would be most stable when drying but end up with the nastiest defects in most cases. Any branches would leave you 'spike' knots across the boards and you're quite likely to get a crack right up the heart as well. Irritatingly, quartersawn timber generally has to have the heart sawn out of it, giving you boards that are less than 1/2 the tree's diameter.
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    I was looking at that. Very nice boards- I guess that the wedge shape follows the taper of the tree, he'd allowed a fair bit for planing and the cupping while it dries wouldn't be very noticeable on slow grown Scandi softwood. If you did that here with Larch, Doug, WRc etc etc it'd be fine, no probs at all. We did wonder if the boards would end up random widths (but with the same taper?)- the middle few boards being widest and the outer boards narrower.
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    I get the feeling that there's more of a woodworm problem in summer felled oak. It might be best to be ruthless with the sapwood.
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    For the best twiddly grain for gunstocks you're best digging the root out I suppose as stocks aren't very long you could get away with doing a high felling cut about 18ins to 2ft up from ground level, and then digging and tweaking the rootball out. You've then got the sweep of the major roots running up into the stem to give the curve through the pistol grip.... FIGURED GRADES OF GUNSTOCKS How're things with you guys? Hope you're all well and busy, WW
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    I'll throw London Plane into the mix as well Stable, amazing colour and figure, machines lovely. Good Sweet chestnut is a treat, even the bad stuff is amusing as it springs a comedy amount and there's nothing to beat a log that cleaves iself explosively as you've got the mill halfway through it. Olive Ash is sensational, what a treat the marbly inner grain is......
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    It's a great all round bit of timber for shed and workshop studwork, rafters and boarding. It also takes pressure treatment beautifully if you've a local plant.....
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    James Musthill (Tigerscapes) 07740 487055 has got a Lucas Mill and is based close to Godalming, he loves a nice big log for the reason you mention- minimal movement of the machine. Happy milling. WW
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    Elm does get a bit fuzzy sometimes. You've gone full blown there It's a bit strange that it's jsut one log- is it the furthest away from the door/ fresh air flow? You can just brush or scrape it off, it doesn't harm the timber in the short term.
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    Eddie that's brilliant. I feel like you now cover the entire known internet universe- Will/ Herriwullie!
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    Quicke/ Alo pallet tines with a beak over the top are a lovely compromise
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    It's a shame Psion never really got going properly. The Series 5 palmtop is still a great little computer* very robust and fantastic run time on a couple of AA batteries..... *unless you're interested in spending your day taking moody emo self portraits for posting on Facebook or playing Angry Birds.....
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    Looking again there is a licence for fuelwood, BUT it looks as though it only applies for use as fuel on single sites away from the woods. I suppose it's for large mills who will use the slab and bark chip for heating kilns and power generation, or for power stations who will will be launching complete loads of chip into their boilers. Definitely worth talking to the FC.
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    Just been looking into this, you need to apply for a processing licence from the FC if you are processing Phytophthora affected Larch timber in the woods or at a remote site. There is now a fee involved. Processing Licence http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/ProcessingLicenceJanuary2012GB.pdf/$FILE/ProcessingLicenceJanuary2012GB.pdf I was told that the person to contact at FC Edinburgh is John Morgan (head of Plant Health) not Gavin Snaith whose name is on the form. For information on handling, transport, processing and forms: Forestry Commission - plant health - Phytophthora licensing
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    It seems almost unbelievable that national notification and action has just got started when 99% of Ash trees have dumped their leaves for the winter
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    The thing that looks great about these is that you can pass an unlimited length of rope through the puller- it doesn't spool up, it's passed out the back.... If you're felling or rolling logs around for a mill or sculpture it looks absolutely ideal, there's no need to mess about re-rigging all the time. I think the best bet if you want one would be to go direct to Baileys in the States. Bailey's - Maasdam Pow' R-Rope Puller
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    I asked Wood Mizer HQ and was told that Dave has been away setting up a mill line in Malaysia, so he'll be back...
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    No prob- It's a document that's worth munching through..... Sawmill work doesn't have the college training system or the work based NPTC type training that most of us woody folk have grown up with. I've certainly not seen that many different static mill setups and it would nice to try and work out how different mills are laid out. I suspect that: Available Building Space and handling kit, Budget, Available Timber, Type of Sawn Timber Produced, Power Supply, Part time/ Full time use are the deciding issues for most rustic/ estate static mills that have to turn out a mixture of produce.
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    Health and safety in sawmilling http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/hsg172.pdf Looked at as a whole this is quite a handy book, although the safeguards for fully mechanised mills are beyond most of us here I would reckon. We've been puzzling over section 69 (page 15) and the photos at the top of page 16. We're happy that we could relocate the controls for the table travel and that we could extend the shaft for operating the blade guard, but we're not sure how awkward it'll make life when levering timber up to the fence and doing anything other than basic log breakdown and straightening. Has anyone fitted an 'impeding device'/ spacing bar and have you got any comments about how it affects work, accuracy and output...?
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    Tricky one... lump of pinky burr quartersawn London Plane would blow most people's socks off. Failing that a crazy mindwarp chunk of Yew (if you can live with a conifer). Yew is at it's craziest and most colourful when there's metal in the timber- all sorts of purples and blues going on.....
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    Le Tonkinois is very nice stuff! We tend to use an oil finish- either Osmo exterior oils or Liberon clear decking oil which works out a fair bit cheaper. If you want a matt treatment that keeps the rain off and slows down moisture loss and timber cracking you should have a play with Thompsons Water Seal.... impressive stuff.

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