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Very cool, good effort! I read something on the 'net from a chap who was insulating his retort or oil drum to keep things even more efficient....

Why the rush to get it straight in the kiln? I don't think most firms would wang 3in green Oak into a kiln.... More like- Milled Winter 2010, stack in the shade with 1/2in sticks to keep the drying gentle. Apply weight or strap up with Cordstrap and re-tension every few months. Leave all of 2011 and think about kilning maybe at end of 2012? Cedar etc- stack between 3/4in sticks, dries like a nutter, bob's yer duncle.

No one going to go for sycamore then.....?

Wouter is the Belgian guy who runs Vartago- I was hoping to catch up with him at the recent APF show, but they couldn't make it over sadly. I've always fancied a posh timber arch or two, the homemade one is a bit heavy..

Very sad looking probably still working OK, but a very specific tool for breaking down chunks for pallets, flooring, fencing slats etc.... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKhQh4YhHxU]YouTube - ‪Wood-Mizer HR120 Horizontal Resaw‬‏[/ame] Two heads means that you would get 2 sawn boards per pass, but you'd still need to break things down to start with....... Or go for broke and chop the machine up and make a small mill! (or two!)

Hard buggers, what a life..... I wonder if this photo is a log that was felled decades before then salvaged.... Looks like the photo's taken in the 1960's? I know that a lot of the Cedar shingle firms on the West Coast rely on folks finding fallen and misfelled trees and salvaging chunks to process for shingles.

Measure up the wheels, then Stenner will be happy... no doubt there's a rule of thumb for blade speed, might be a bit different for the newer pitless resaws, but the old growlers like the Stenner VHMs and Robinson EFT are probably all the same. Brushcutter- the motor rpm will be there to suit the electric motor no doubt (1500rpm to 2000rpm?), then the revs will be geared down through the belting to give a much slower rev at the wheels. A 3ft diameter wheel will travel a blade 9.425 ft every time it rotates, so you'd end up with a blade speed of 14,000ft per min or 235 ft per sec if the wheels were driven directly at 1500rpm motor speed. That's 72.5 metres a sec, which makes a chainsaw look pretty lazy.... Stenner or one of the woodworking firms like Daltons would know what's required

Too true, it's a bit of a shame to knock out narrow boards from a log with such lovely sweeping grain. Very smart tree, once again we should take our hats of to our forefathers who planted and cherished the old girl

The blades are made up of saw strip cut from a reel and welded, so no need to worry about the size that your blade ends up.... Although it's obviously easier and cheaper for blade firms to make up a dozen or so bands at a particular spec. I can't remember what blade speed is best, I think it differs slightly for narrow band mills (1 1/4 to 1 1/2in mills) and big old wide bands (3in upwards). Probably best to talk to Stenner, they are a helpful bunch, they will be able to give you an idea what the resaw ran at, it's best to stick to that I would think. Tooth pattern (spacing) seems to be governed by the feed speed you want to work at* and the width of timber you are likely to cut. What varies for differing density of timber is the tooth shape (profile) and mainly the hook angle- the hook is more pronounced for softer timbers and lessened for harder or mor difficult, but the feed speed then usually has to drop. On Wood Mizer machines I think they run something like 10 degress forward hook for softwoods, 8 deg for all round and 7 degrees for hard timbers and frozen logs.... *and that is governed by: a) power available b) thickness and rigidity of the blade c) quality of finish wanted

Graft failure? Was it an ornamental beech?

I assume that overbark dimensions will suit anyone running a harvester... the head's running on the bark and getting a readout from that. Or am I missing something

J A Gadd Ltd. Station Road Industrial Estate Cheltenham GL54 2EN Tel: 01451-820334 Gadd's make the Spencer/ Stihl tapes with lots of screws in a ring around the outside.

Would you be happy to have timber from bandsaw fiddlers on Treet? Have you got yourself on the wood producers map at UKWorkshop - The Site For Woodworkers ? They're quite a nice bunch... The photos of your finished furniture are great- lovely lines and good scale without being too 'Stonehenge' It's nice to see furniture well dressed in a nicely lit indoor setting, and you don't have the worries of lugging it around all the time and doing damage in the process. We've always found that shows are harder work than you first think, and strangely have usually found that people will love a certain piece but would like one that's similar but actually a bit different, so usually more or less impossible with the remaining timber.... Perhaps it's easier not having the person who does the making on hand! Ebay has been OK using the classified advert system so things stay on for 30 days at a fixed price. It worked well for a big sawn timber clear out a couple of years back as well- I showed pictures of the timber stacks and some samples of cleaned up and oiled timber alongside the description and ran the adverts with a cubic ft price at the heading. To help move things in bulk, I think I put that there'd be a 15% discount if buying over 15cu/ft... As with most things on the internet, good description and photos are so important.

Well done- what a bit of pond life.....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLhYbbpwtXw]YouTube - Coleman Sportster Stove - www.simplyhike.co.uk[/ame] Coleman Sportster... lovely job, very robust and cheap to run and much more powerful than gas jobbies Having said that we did play with turbo-blasting the site offcut burner in the bitterer days of winter Bearing in mind that's a 5 pint kettle on a lorry wheel.....

That's very cool- I'd love a bit of shafting and belting in the shed!

I think you're going to have to make more up..... maybe a whole set- 'Tea Drinking' 'Arse Scratching' 'Skiving' 'Flat Out' 'Tree Murder'

Awesome, love the old Forestor, and really want to see the yard loader!

I bought an Autotune version as a replacement for a Stihl 441- it was an absolutely fantastic saw until it was stolen with my other saws. I ran it with an 18in bar which is a brilliant combination to throw around, felt a little bit less clumsy than the 441. For the 4 months I had it, it was faultless Current level of funds and an unwillingness to buy top of the range gear if it's going to disappear again has meant I've bought a 365 (farmer spec/ non xp) which is a good old fashioned robust growler, but I do miss the grunt and zing of the 576, which charged through everything!

Quite like that Massey! Ideal if you like nosing on the neighbours

The theory is that you should be able to get more sawn cubic ft than you have hoppus ft, but it definitely doesn't hold true for logs under 12in quarter girth and it usually doesn't hold true when bark and sapwood have been removed from Oak, especially on flared or even slightly open grown trees. It's fairer on flared butts to take pretend tha you're going to crosscut the timber and then take 2 sets of measurements, even if you are going to mill at full length. If you buy timber that someone has measured up by the cubic metre and then converted to hoppus, then I think you get more logs for your money than if you were to measure up in Hoppus to start with- especially on smaller logs. There's a remark in my set of hoppus tables that British Customs would take the dividing number as 113 not 144, and that this may give a truer reflection of sawn cubic content... It might be time for a practical test!

Anyway back to the videos! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDUaW-ofyWc]YouTube - Wood Mizer sawmill timelapse[/ame] After a quick wrestle with Windows Movie Maker... it lives!

The RAC do a policy designed for caravan owners going on hols that will get you and trailer recovered to a site and then back home afterwards... all at a very reasonable price. They 'could' refuse to recover a trailer when your tow vehicle breaks down- however in real life they have always been very good lads!

Anyone have any ideas for software* if you've got a load of jpeg images that need to be threaded together to form a video? I found a free package that you could make a vid and view it, but not save it * almost wrote softwood

mobile sawmill..... Break it up into quarters at full length Then buzz through with any chainsaw you fancy, an 18in or 20in bar on a 660 always made me smile