Justme

for the last fing time i never said 30m3 of solid wood

Softwood. In rough sticks for firewood. The last lot of WRC we had for milling was not much more at £750 + Vat for a lorry full.

£650 plus vat. From a local supplier.

Spruce & some Hairy Birch. Oh & its 37 1m3 bags to an 18 tonner lorry load. (by volume as the lorry was full but not weighed as it was dry stuff) So that would be 74 builders bags or " 1 ton" bags as some call them.

Videos to follow when I can get them to up load.

Another busy day today. The total m3 bags in the end was Drum roll please 37

I will see what I can do tomorrow. As I said its Wyn's (Kindlet) machine & he hires it out with operative for very reasonable rates.

Most of it was. A few big logs had snuck in. Not sure the seller said it had been down 6 month ish. For those that dont know this is Wyn's machine that I have hired for 2 days (with him working it). So far well impressed with him & the machine. Nope thats mud lol.

he first 8 1m3 vented bags neatly stacked up. The first 8 were soon followed by another 8 by the end of the day. 16 m3 bags, not a bad days work. We are prob just over half way through the pile. If tomorrow goes as well as today it will be a good day.

The saw dust soon mounts up. Will have a dumpy bag full by the end of the job. Would have been loads more with a chainsaw cutting the wood.

Been busy today. Had a good solid day with great outdoor working weather (not to hot or cold). Made an early start at 8 ish & the mist was still around & slight frost on the ground. Nice clean work site, dint stay like that for long lol Using a pallet & some 4x2 to hold the bags wide open with bungee cords. If you make one make it plenty bigger than the bags as mine is. Learnt that from previous jobs when the full bag was stuck fast in the frame. The small dumpy bags are full of stones not wood

Ah I see do a scan every time you do a milling cut.

How deep will they scan a tree?

Ah it looks like a button. Should have used a wav file then every one will have a player built in.

You might have it already on your pc.

Nice. Do you really need the user to have or down load a quicktime plug in for a simple buy it now button? Could understand if it was also needed for on line video's ect. I like the "what page am I on now" thing.

Mostly softwoods, but a tinny bit of hard wood. Not had a good look to try to identify it yet. Plus most of my wood recognition is with hard woods so it would be a guess as to what the softwood is. This is prob the best pic to see what they are.

Just did some calcs using the picture & items in it & the real items & marks on the ground & the total volume of the load bay is 39.2m3 (2m high x 2.8m wide & 7m long). Less a bit for the gaps between each stack on the lorry & 30m3 seems a fair guestimate.

Ok I dint mean 30m3 of "solid" wood. But that pile does measure 30m3 in the round on the floor. Which also matches up to the size of the lorry's load area which it filled to the brim. The wood is quite dry already & has been cut quite a while. Will be interesting to see just how many 1m3 vented bags (thats a real m3 bag not a builders bag) its fills when cut & split.

Not sure if I should post this here as the timber was milled on a proper band saw mill (Jacko Forestor) but here goes any way. This friday I spent the day making a "bog" chair (no not that sort of Bog you lot at the back settle down). Its been made with some Oak from a tree I felled last summer & has been air drying since under cover & was then brought inside to dry some more on a rack in the warm air flow from the wood fired stove to speed it up as the chair was a rush job that I thought I had months to make & was actually needed for next week. The finish is an olive oil based one as its going to be inside. The chair was made for the school my youngest goes to. They have been having a school competition where they have split into groups (but not the same groups as the "houses" they are in). The Head asked me to make this chair to have a plaque put on for the winning group. It might be small (10" high ish) but took more time to make than a full sized chair as all my kit is set up for larger jobs so it was all done by hand & the mortice was to small to use the chain morticer so was cut with chisels.

The 18 ton lorry "load" (not a weighed load just a full load) roughly measures 30m3 before cutting & splitting.

I will tell you on Tuesday night LOL.

What ever I have in the pile thats nice & dry. Not fussy me.

I would say any wood is worth milling IF either you can sell it at a profit or you can use it yourself so you dont have to buy in some wood. There is a big range in between.

So what will a new bar, a pair of chains & this device cost?