Rob D
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That would be a better phrase you're right!
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It's a lot harder than you think. Items under 500g can be sent Royal Mail to all UK for the same price. Over this and the couriers come in but their list of postcodes that have applicable surcharges is long. Adding an item to your basket, prompt for postcode will work but the website would have to have a weight calculator that then matched the postcode with weight of your basket. So straight away every item has to have an accurate weight and a postcode database to calculate an accurate postage. Add £1000-00 min to your website cost! Also bear in mind large companies can send the same parcel for 30% of what it costs a smaller company. So for many (inc me!) I cannot offer free delivery.
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Ditto above! And have replied to your PM Brian.
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Stop holding back Tom - you love the Alaskan - all that lovely sawdust to play in afterwards!!
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Brilliant!
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I hear what you're saying but this has to be in the "small print" or on a separate page somewhere because of practicality. I have a list an A4 page long of surcharge areas but you couldn't put this on your website homepage.
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To be fair if you have the IV postcode you know you will pay the surcharge because the seller has to pay the surcharge so why grumble?
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Yes ... excellent!
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Get up.. go surfing (and I'll be good as I'll be in each day)... bit of work... round of golf... bit more work... another surf then a few beers.
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Cannot believe it went through that easy... great post!
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I've had a lot of dealings with walnut in the last year. If you are lucky you may get £50 for that. The myth about walnut being worth fortunes is just that - a myth pure and simple. The right walnut is worth good money but these trees are very rare. They need to be shake free, excellent colour, small sap ring and knot free.
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What you have to realise about wood worm is that the holes are caused by the adult beetle leaving the wood not the woodworm going in (you hardly notice where they go in). When they're ready to mate they turn from worms into beetles and chew their way out. You may see adult beetles going in and out of old woodworm holes but these ones will be laying eggs. I looked into it in some detail on the net. There's a couple of pics here alaskan mill I home of the portable chainsaw mill Woodworm is in the wood in worm form for I think (depends on type) 3 to 5 years before they turn into beetles and tunnel out. A good rule of thumb is if the conditions are right for wood worm you will have wood worm. Bringing contaminated wood into a house will not do anything if there's no conditions for it to spread.
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Hope you get through it ok... can't imagine what it must be like.
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Good milling saw though!
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Have to say I've not heard of that before.... I can't quite picture how the file pointing down would give that much longer a gullet to effect how the chip came out of the cut... can you put up any pics to illustrate?
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I have a wojo style muffler and it was superb on my old 880. Not that much louder and I'd say a 15% to 20% increase in power. But one day I had a milling job far away, was using skip link full chisel ripping chain, in a bit of a rush reduced the depth guages too much. This caused big vibration. But I carried on and milled the tree..... (was a couple of years ago) The increased power meant the vibration was greater and it caused a hairline crack in the crankshaft. An expensive lesson but I got a new 880 only to see they'd changed the muffler! So I still have the wojo one which I'll sell for £120-00 inc vat. Bear in mind a new Stihl muffler is £259-00 + vat. This has helped with me becoming more obsessive about chain sharpening!
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I think the 8 pin is fine to use on a 50" bar (that's what I'm using) but then maybe if the woods hard and the saw is bogging down you could switch to an 7 pin. But it depends a lot on the wood and how the chain is cutting. With an 8 pin if the chain is super sharp it gets up to speed and stays there regardless but if the depth guages are set a little low/uneven the chain bogs a bit easier. It's hard to tell unless you spent a day experimenting.
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Not got a lot new. May have some big 4ft oak slabs in a month or so. Got some good size dry black pop slabs, a couple of oak. I'll measure them up and post the sizes up. The large beech I had was a bit far gone for milling.
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Prob less than that!
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As above educate your customers - I sold a lot of soft wood last year with no complaints. Most haven't got a clue so it's up to you to tell them the facts. Dry wood is good wood pure and simple.
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Buy new. It's difficult to recommend a particular saw as such as we all have likes or dislikes and it depends on what your cutting. An MS361 (or may be the MS362) is a good all rounder as it can take up to a 20" bar. You tens to get what you pay for in a saw....
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What a cool buggy thing! Is it 4 wheel drive?
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As in Tom's pics home oak has a lovely grain on it that I've not seen on any other tree. I made a worktop out of some and it's been fantastic - it's got to be some of the hardest timber you can get! Well worth milling but outside it's not the most durable. I'd stick to indoors. I'll take some pics of the worktop and get them on this thread.
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He certainly seems to enjoy himself! Nice to see someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.
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The way I understand it is in 'the old days' a mineral 2 stroke oil was used and needed to be 25:1 These days synthetic 2 stroke oils mean only need 50:1. So should be fine with 50:1 but maybe see what else people have to say.
