Rob D

Put some pics up and some details. Sounds like a corking tree!!

Hi Jon! Don't worry you can reduce your arbtalk time down a little bit after a year or two! That first few weeks is like having a new girlfriend and you're on it for a couple of hours every night....

Excellent - I've blasted off a couple of these and it's worth the effort but you do get covered in muck while you do it!

Really well spotted... not got kids but it must be really hard to decide what could be serious and what's not and what to do about it.

When you change everything over make sure there are no tiny bits of metal left floating around as these can get picked up and you end up back where you started! Blow and suck it all 110% clean!

Can you give a few more details i.e. where is your mate based? does he want this timber for outdoor or indoor tables? Is it just the table tops he wants or timber for the bases? Can it be mixed timber? Does he want the tops in single pieces if so how big are the dimensions? Dry or green? I have loads of timber that would do the trick but would be a mixture of species. Also you could list this on my new wood forum here treet|Wood wanted | Wood Forum

Alright Josh! I'd go for genuine parts. It's a bit of a ball ache changing a pot and piston and takes a bit of time. The piston rings should come with the piston. Also sometimes you may need to change the crankshaft bearing if there's play in it.

Just buy lots of files - they're cheap enough! I've experimented with diamond files and grinding stones and although they do give a good edge they still wear and they're slow.

You do get what you pay for with moisture meters. These ones are fine for firewood but not for milled timber.

Both Oregon and Stihl do chains that are specifically designed to reduce kickback (the depth guages and rakers are different).

I got 3 of these wedges from Clarkes Ochsenkopf Aluminium Twisted Wedges | Clark Forest : Forestry Tools They are one of the best things I have come across in recent years and will split huge dirty great knotty rings like you wouldn't believe! Bore cut a few slots here and there into the ring and away you go with a sledge hammer. Then the chunjs can be loaded onto the splitter.

You have a lot of competition and yet you've still sold out before Christmas. I'd put your macra carpa up to £75-00 a cube.

Sounds a fair price to me. If he's not interested then I'd leave it.

Excellent - the pics need to be low res and updated 1 at a time or it seems to crash I'm going to get it so you can reply and include pics as well i.e. someone sees your wood and says 'looks nice but what about 3" planks' so you can continue thread with further pics.

Course Josh. You can put 1 plank up there if you like taken from different angles. Or even a small piece of wood - whatever you like!

Cheers Bob - I thought you'd be in there quick. Have you got any timber to sell you can put up there?

Thanks I have e-mailed them

Oh and I've ok'd this with Steve before putting this thread up.....

When people buy a mill they love milling timber. You make a couple of benches and tables and then you wonder what to do next? Really you could do with selling a lot of the timber quickly straight off site or even before you have felled the tree. But how do you source buyers? I've set up a new wood forum where small producers can sell their wood, rustic furniture have timber milled etc. treet| Wood Forum It will not be as comprehensive as arbtalk, will prob take a long time to get established, and will have lots of teething problems. But it's free and may generate you extra cash. I expect it to take at least a year to get a good member base and regular buyers. To start with I want sellers to start posting pics so that there is something for visitors to browse through. Then once there are plenty of sellers I will start putting threads up on the woodworkers forums to attract buyers. Please don't be shy posting up what you've made and the planks you have to sell. Constructive comments and feedback welcomed! But bear in mind this will take a lot of tweaking to get right

I think the trouble is there are so many uni courses out there now and much more students compared to what there used to be. And of these a lot of courses are not vocational i.e. they don't lead to a job afterwards. With some courses its very dubious as to their value at all...

There prob was damage but just very minor. My theory on this is that it depends on the metal first off i.e. soft, hard, old or new. Then the next factor is how well sharpened your chain is. Different teeth size and raker height then some of the teeth will get absolutely hammered. Everything right and just slight damage to all. But really it probably has more to do with the type of metal you hit. As said it's stones that seem to write off chains bending the tips over and stripping the outer chrome layer

I weighed a cubic meter of beech the other day. Freshly split it weighed 600kg. So a ton of this would make 1.67 cubic meters. I suppose it depends on the wood a bit for how much volume a ton of wood makes.

I sell mixed hard and softwood for £80-00 cubic meter and hardwood only for £95-00 cube. 75% have bought mixed this year and no complaints (yet!).

Sorry Matt but not sure this would work - different wood weighs different weight when dry (and wet for that matter) and then there would be all the wood inbetween wet and dry. And to boot I think would just serve to confuse the poor innocent god fearing public even more! A cubic meter of split wood is a cubic meter of split wood- to look into how much air space from one cubic meter to another in terms of how it is stacked or a bag is filled is not relevant IMO.

Yes I did... I have never in my life come across so much metal in a tree. Took out almost 18 nails and screws, sawed through another 7, and there's more in there! There was metal in the middle, in the bark everywhere! Hard work, tricky dismantle but got some nice wood and enjoyed working with Charlie who'd got the job.