Rob D
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Great to watch! Cheers for the pics.
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Cheers. The thrones I think were carved by one of Mark's lads. The Peterson works well with the Alaskan as you can take off slabs or posts depending on how the wood looks. If you have a lovely burry piece it's nice to be able to whip a slab off with the Alaskan (the top being flattened by the Peterson). Also you can use the Peterson to edge into the wood 8" on each side. The kerf is 2/3 of the Alaskan but it still means the Alaskan has much less wood to cut through and it flys down the log!! Although this is a bit of a pain to line the cut up so the Peterson cuts the exact same line as the Alaskan. But in this instance I was doing contract milling and I made a load of furniture for the owner in his garden including one of the biggest tables I've ever made. I'll get some pics of this later in the year.
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And a few more!
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Some pics of me milling some oak (job passed on curtesy of Mark Meritt - many thanks).
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I'd love one of those makita morticers...
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In my opinion you'd be better off saving up and going for an MS 880 or Husky 3120. I know you'll spend another £300-00 but well worth the extra money IMO.
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Sorry but I don't agree. In that situation it is unlikely you or them would be thinking clearly about possible legal repercussions. You'd act in the spur of the moment and do your thinking later!
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Just to back up other comments on the training thing - if you're going to buy a chainsaw and you've not used one before then CS 30 basic cross cut and maintenace is a must. When you're doing the course you'll get plenty of good advice on what saw would most suit you. It makes sense to do the course finanacially - you need to know how to sharpen a chainsaw and maintain it as otherwise you'll be to and fro from the local garden machinery shop all the time.
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I'm not a Christian and don't believe in the Bible as such but the idea for forgiveness is the only one that works. If you don't forgive someone then you're going to carry the hate with you the rest of your life - the only way you'll move on is if you forgive.... you don't do it for them you do it for yourself. All very nice words but with many crimes not sure if I could forgive.....
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I can see where you're coming from but there's very different levels of stealing - tax evasion is stealing but this is totally different from breaking into someone's home and stealing IMO. I don't think you can lump them into the same thing. Unfortunetly there are so many variables and different circumstances with crime you have to judge each case on its own individual merit which I suppose they try to do.... but of course this doesn't always work. But you should be allowed to defend your own property at the time of a breakin without fear of prosecution.
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Advertising as a 1 ton pick up load I would say is pretty misleading. I would think I'd be getting a ton of logs. But as has already been said I reckon you should only be selling by volume and not weight.
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The Official raffle results 2009
Rob D replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Arbtalk Christmas Raffle 2009
Well done for organising it all. -
Brilliant!
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Rob can you text me your mobile number? Am still up for looking at this oak tom around 10a.m but can't find your number anywhere!!
Cheers Rob Dyer
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I did a weeks bricklaying once - what a lovely holiday it was! Really refreshed when I went back to tree work
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I had tennis elbow badly a couple of years ago and it was getting to the point I could not reach out and lift any sort of weight - had to keep it close to the body. Then I found an excellent physio who did sports massage. Basically it's caused by the small forearm muscles getting overworked. The surrounding muscles tighten up and this causes the tendons to start pulling at their attachments in the elbow. Over a few months with a treatment a week it totally disappeared (even though I was still working hard throughout). Worth every penny but very painful. Was contemplating the steriod injections at one point but these were never needed. But word of warning - the physio I found before this did some massage, acupunture and a couple of other things - didn't work so you need the right person who knows their stuff. Haven't been for 9 months and despite doing the stretches the old niggles are coming back so looks as if I'll be going back again soon! Really you want a session a week as maintenace IMO.
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Nice work! - Thanks for putting up all the pics there! I'm still on the lookout for a tool you can bolt on your chainsaw to cut holes to do accurate mortices and tenons quickly and easily.... It would make putting crossbeams for tables and benches much easier.
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Well you certainly learn something new everyday! Cause I'd never heard of these square sharpened chiesels so thanks for the thread. Ref milling I've started to look more and more into chains, angles and what does what and I still feel ignorant! Yet the more I look into it/use it the more you realise the chain is the chainsaw.... That link to the Madsen site is really good. I think perhaps the reason some of the threads get poor results ref chain is that a) it doesn't interest a lot of people but b) I think people may be afraid to comment as general knowledge on chains is poor.... After all it's our tool is the chainsaw - we should all be experts! I've been using saws for 10 years and yet I still feel a novice as far as chains go... but trying to rectify this!!
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They've trapped/killed so many possums now that figure must be less these days. My missus is from NZ and we go once a year for a month. When they decided to curb the possums the bait lines used to catch 150 a night (on her dads farm)!! There must have been a few out there!
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Never come across a square file so not sure.... won't the round ones be fine anyway?
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From reading this thread I'm going
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Pretty much have moved away from tree surgery and next year want to expand on milling more timber and finding markets for it. I think there's a lot of possibilites out there and spin offs from this industry in terms of what you can do with the waste. I know it's getting boring hearing everyone going on about logs but there is proper money in it these days... Good luck to all in 2010.
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Merry Christmas Phil and one and all!
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Don't listen to him Josh - these bandsaw millers go a bit funny upstairs after a few years Alaskan milling is hard work and will create a lot of sawdust but really it's to get some planks cheaply without needing to get in bigger equipment. As for ripping chain then all the major brands will work well - but unlike cross cutting where you can get away with a dull chain you can't with milling. The bar needs to be unworn, the chain sharp and the depth guages correctly set. When you get it right the mill almost pulls itself through the wood. You're best way of selling the wood to start with is to make it into things - rustic furniture suits the planks you get. But I've had people buying mills off me recently who were being sponsered by cabinet makers (mainly looking for elm).
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All anyone wants round here is seasoned wood. Very few buy green to season themselves......
