John Hughes
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The Americans use board feet, we would use cubic feet or cubic metres. If I was selling a slab like you mention then I would work out how many cubic feet were in it and then look at it's quality and test it's dryness. I would then decide the price somewhere between £25 and £50 per cubic foot. John
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There is a guy called Dainis Dauksta at Cefn coch, Builth wells. He has a static bandmill. He may be able to help or know a man who can. Google him for his details. John
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I may be interested in some of the large butts depending on price and quality. Have you any more details or photos? Thanks John
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Interesting thread. I still don't have enough shed space to set up my little Ebac kiln. So i have to rely on air drying, a very slow business. Alot of the timber I get is not joinery quality so does not warrant kiln drying, but I hope to get a shed built this year to house the kiln. John
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Is it not worth getting it milled?
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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.
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Here is the one I made up. I have not managed to bend it yet.
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Excellent work. How did you fix the legs to the top?
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Trees in the painted British Landscape
John Hughes replied to David Humphries's topic in Picture Forum
This one hangs on our wall. I have often wondered what the trees were. Probably painted I north Essex or Suffolk. -
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.
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I may be interested. Could I mill them on site? John
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I would be interested. What is the length and diameter? John
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I have a friend who has just made a front door and frame out of doug fir. He did buy in the timber prepared but the timber alone cost him £1200. :ohmy: I didn't like to ask him how much he charged out the door out for.
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I would say mill it at just over 2inch, with a bit a t 2.5 inch for sills. I used to use Doug fir for external joinery but it is now silly money. It does come completley clear of knots and I believe originates from the USA. I now use my own larch but it is difficult to find any that is clear enough for joinery use. John
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Small scale timber extraction
John Hughes replied to john k's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
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: -
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.
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That sounds like a nice butt. :drool: Sadly too far from me.
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One I made earlier in cedar.
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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.
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I would ask £25 to £30 per ft3.
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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?
