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  1. John Hughes
    The Lucas frame measures 6m by 3m without the extension rails. the saw head is about 1meter wide as far as I remember.. I have a very understanding wife , so when I spotted the Lucas on the Woodlots website for under £5k I could not resist it. It will hold it's value and I will be able to sell it for what I paid for it. I now keep the Woodmizer permanently in it's saw shed in our Welsh woodland, where I try to add value to the spruce. The Lucas I keep here in Essex where it is more suited to the smaller gardens. I like the naroow boards that the Lucas produces. They are easier to handle and when planed and glued up make a more stable board. Wide boards off the mill tend to cup or have checks along the pith so end up being ripped down the middle before being planed anyway. I use the bandmill with it's narrow kerf to cut thin boards and the Lucas to mill 2 inch thick and over.
  2. John Hughes
    Here is the one I made up. I have not managed to bend it yet.
  3. John Hughes
    Excellent work. How did you fix the legs to the top?
  4. John Hughes
    Rob Does your Peterson swing both ways? We can double cut to get a 16 inch wide board but it is a pain in the butt unless one has a couple of strong guys who can pick up the saw head of the rails and reverse it? John
  5. John Hughes
    I milled 5 logs of about 24 inch diameter 7 ft long. They yield about 45 ft3 in total. No metal hit. I weighed one board straight of the mill. It worked out a few grams over one tonne a cubic metre.
  6. John Hughes
    I can't speak for the big mills, but I believe they are not really interested unless they can collect a lorry load at a time. Mobile millers , like myself, we are happy with anything reasonably straight with no branches, rot and hopefully no iron. We probably pay less than the static mills as we have to get our equipment to site, set it up and get the timber back to our yard. Often it is uneconomic but it is very satisfying. £50 would be about right for your elm . John
  7. John Hughes
    I love cedar of lebanon timber, it machines well and is very stable. I have been looking for a butt to mill for some time but unfortunatley you are too far from me. It would be a great shame if it went for firewood. John
  8. John Hughes
    This one hangs on our wall. I have often wondered what the trees were. Probably painted I north Essex or Suffolk.
  9. John Hughes
    I got the Lucas out just before Xmas, first time for months I have had anything to mill. It's alot easier putting it together with someone to help but it can be done on ones own.
  10. John Hughes
    I may be interested. Could I mill them on site? John
  11. John Hughes
    I would be interested. What is the length and diameter? John
  12. John Hughes
    That little Zetor again! Far too slow to be economic but at least it kept the logs clean. I must get those brakes sorted out:001_rolleyes:
  13. John Hughes
    I have some 2inch beech, some of it spalted. 2 years air dried. I will have a look tomorrow to see what it like. John.
  14. John Hughes
    That sounds like a nice butt. :drool: Sadly too far from me.
  15. John Hughes
    One I made earlier in cedar.
  16. John Hughes
    Cedar of Lebanon was used as the base board of blanket chests as it's strong aromatic smell deterred moth and boring insects. The plank in the photo appears to have 3 large boreholes in it already.
  17. John Hughes
    I would ask £25 to £30 per ft3.
  18. John Hughes
    I use a lot of Cedar of Lebanon, it certainly does not look like cedar to me. Does it have a very strong distinctive smell?
  19. John Hughes
    Alex It looks a nice and straight , definetley worth milling. I have a Lucas swing mill, I am based near Gt Dunmow. Where abouts is the tree? John
  20. John Hughes
    There is a Woodmizer on eBay at the moment. Search mobile sawmill. John
  21. John Hughes
    I have a Lucas mill , I will cut for a fee or a share of the timber. I am based near Dunmow , Essex I also own a Woodmizer but it is in Wales at the moment. John
  22. John Hughes
    I went to look at a big knarly oak butt at the weekend , with a view to buying it to mill. I think the seller saw it as a 4ft diam log. I saw it as nearer 3ft under the sap wood and taking into account the taper. The classic quote "It's worth more for firewood" was spoken. So would you firewood guys actually buy such a log? It was lying in a paddock not far from hardstanding. Say it weighed about 5 ton. How much would you pay? John
  23. John Hughes
    I sold a couple of nice elm slabs to a guy called "MaverickGR" . He makes tables etc.Give him a PM
  24. John Hughes
    LLL That's a good find. Class
  25. John Hughes
    I wouldn't bother. John

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