Rob D

Yep - another great design - very nice

It's a great concept - as working in woods it is such a pain walking with a chainsaw crutches or not. I used to walk with a saw cradling it so the weight was better distributed. But then you always had to go back for all your other bits and pieces. It makes total sense to be able to carry all your gear on your back if you have a long walk to the job. You make have put a spark there for someone to develop a new idea if there is nothing out there already. Good to see that you are not letting your disabilities hold you back from getting stuck in

Nicely done - lovely to see stuff like that being used - good post

Just been looking through this thread - awesome machine! You'll have to get some vids uploaded of some big old logs being milled at some point Jon

Good work - very raw and life like

I think it's a great idea and I feel am in the same boat - spent this year doing a little more running etc... In May did a bodypump class and it destroyed me for 3 days! (as said) I think you have to be consistent and very slow in building up to hardcore workouts. I'm not sure if you're over 40 it's worth trying to get to 100% fitness - too hard to maintain, too hard on your body, prob not that healthy unless your diet is immaculate and you don't have much work/or stress in our life... 75% and you'd still feel good I reckon! Will have a look at that insanity workout next week though... could be something to build up to.

Any sort of cooking oils won't last on a worktop... I would use something like a polyurethene varnish (have used Rustins in the past) and it goes off very hard indeed. Also Le Tonkinois - used this on tables used in a restuarant and this is also very hard wearing. Just wondering if all the cooking oil originally applied has been got off - as this would react with any future treatments and may still be causing problems.

Good move spud and I am sure you will have no problems making a success of it :biggrin:

It's a good question what to do with milled timber... To start with many have projects or jobs in mind when they buy a mill. This makes everything a lot easier. If you don't know what to do with the wood I would settle for milling some wood for your own projects. Selling wood is hard indeed! As it is such niche market and depends on where you are in the country. Most people who buy wood tend to enjoy talking about wood more than they do the actual buying it if you see what I mean! Also the nature of the product means it is hard to sell ie. difficult to send by post, every piece is different, you often need to plane it or sand it before selling it (or it just looks like a dirty piece of wood), difficult to store... I sell wood on ebay - but it is not easy - every piece has to be planed, labelled and photographed 12 times! http://stores.ebay.co.uk/chainsawbarsalaskanmillandtreet/All-wood-related-things-/_i.html?_fsub=5877698015 and when you take off ebay fees, paypal fees, vat, shipping.... there ain't a lot left but there is just enough to make it worth doing. So you have your work cut out in selling wood... Really I would always start milling wood by - Being picky what you mill - only mill the best stuff Do it for yourself and family and your own projects See it as doing it more for the love rather than the £...

Not yet as such... possibly in the New Year. Will add to this thread when I do get some.

Stick a pic of the drive sprocket up Darrin if you get a chance...

Haha - to be fair it is a good word though!

Haha yes I'm sad like that! You can also get this from a worn bar or worn nose sprocket...

Looks good on the tooth there Darrin - what is the drive sprocket on that saw like? For a new chain there seems quite a bit of 'peening' on the tie strap - may be worth checking it.

20" with a 48" style set up is fine to use - plenty of stability there... You can do smaller but it is a little cumbersome and inefficient - but not undoable. It's a little like taking down a small tree with an over large chainsaw really!

There is nothing like nostalgia for the good old days - but it is nostalgia isn't it? I miss tree work now and then - but in my heart of hearts I know that if I wanted to I could go back to it - but I don't! .... prob best you never write an advert for 'tree faller wanted in Sweden'

Now my favorite saw As said above most Echos seem to run like a bag of nails for the first few tanks so bear with them... after that they just get better and better.

Some pics would help identify what the cause of the cracking is but could be tension in the log or shake... over zealous wedging would not cause this.

That's a good sized project there Steve

Ha ha - I liked the big lump dropped next to the camera at the end.

It's a tough lesson - I milled a good size oak butt with pin hole borer - the holes do look unsightly - fine for outdoor sort of stuff but not many would want to use inside a house or take the chance of using it inside a house. You can ask for a partial refund seeing as the damage is there - but unless you agreed to this beforehand the seller may refuse. Personally I would separate out what is wormy and what isn't. Sell the wormy stuff for whatever you can get for it and sell the premium oak for around the £20 a cube area which is what it seems to go for.

That is a hard one to answer but the best quesiton you should be asking! In some ways an Alaskan is a good way to start - mill some boards and see if you can sell them. Then if there is demand there you can get a bandsaw. Some people buy an Alaskan saying that carpenters around them are begging for timber - others have a stack of boards in the garage they are struggling to sell... so it depends on where you are and who you know!

I think on the older saws it prob doesn't make a lot of difference....(ie all the Stihl saws starting with an '0') but on the newer saws although it wouldn't kill the saw I have found that repeatedly running the saw out of fuel will cause starting and idling issues further down the line (ie 2 years time...). I never run them out of fuel now and it does seem to keep them running better for longer - although I have no idea why this would be!!