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  1. tommer9
    I'm not looking at this thread anymore...its not fair:mad1:
  2. tommer9
    Absoloutely love the mill set uup and matador. What did timber were you milling?
  3. tommer9
    Nice pics Simon, and good to see you back!
  4. tommer9
    Sign o' the times:thumbdown:
  5. tommer9
    Jeez, my heart goes out to those he left behind. What an awful thing to happen, above all at this time of year.
  6. tommer9
    You lucky buggers- wish we had some snow (althought i hate missing work?!?)
  7. tommer9
    Finally they have developed a power barrow you can ride in!!LOL
  8. tommer9
    Totally- aim for a point slightly below the top of the log and get he bugger moving quickly, and most stuff willl split i find.
  9. tommer9
    maul all the way here, gave up on axes years ago, although TBH since arbtalk i have just got Timber Cutter Dartmoor to come down once in a while and spend a day splitting for me with his machine!
  10. tommer9
    I prefer to only have one feed roller- it gets tangled up far less than machine with two IME, and much less crap to clean up under the machine at the end of the day. All personal preference tho, and there isnt a lot in it.
  11. tommer9
    You would find all this gear at farm sales, car boots,local free ads papers, markets etc etc. There are a million people out there who would buy a cheap saw even if they dont need one, and the old bill arent able to trawl all these places.
  12. tommer9
    Well put it this way- how many threads do you see asking about changing bearings etc.....?
  13. tommer9
    No can do im afraid. It was above my head too:blushing: TCD may be able to oblige though as its where he keeps his firewood.
  14. tommer9
    :lol:Mike you are a star:thumbup:
  15. tommer9
    Yeah thats cool. Well asked TCD!
  16. tommer9
    Sorry if that has messed up your pressie plans!
  17. tommer9
    Saw this on an oak near on the outskirts of Plymouth today... Sorry about he quality- camera phone and sunny day:blushing:
  18. tommer9
    Vermeer= overengineered, very reliable and easy to get spares for. B-trac engineering are the UK agents, and i have yet to find a more helpful and knowledgeable company. Go for it. Excellent machines, cant praise them enough.
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    :lol:
  20. tommer9
    Lovely shots sean. SJH thats a cuuute avatar!!
  21. tommer9
    Owain- the way to get around it (in future) is to cut your piece of work out of an already dry board. I fear that if you apply any sort of finishing product now the escaping moisture will throw the oil etc off leaving an awful mess. Butchers blocks are made from sycamore with the end grain facing upwards for two main reasons- sycamore is naturally sterile, and the endgrain closes up again after being sliced during use. The reason that many mass produced boards are made from little blocks is financial, and because they will not move like a solid slab of wood will if not worked properly or worked properly, both processes which are time consuming and expensive. Thick hardwood comes at a premium price too, so there is less profit to be made that way by the manufactirers who can buy off cuts very cheaply and turn them into chopping boards/ kitchen worktops etc.
  22. tommer9
    Nice pics David. What a beautiful place to work, and lovely looking trees too.
  23. tommer9
    Thats a fine selection of shots you have there Hamadryad!:thumbup1:
  24. tommer9
    I asked a bt engineer only a few weeks ago about this, as i was on a job where a bt wire was stretched taught through a really messy ancient rhody, and he said that i would have been better telling the customer that she should pay me to do it as all bt would do is come and look at it and then charge her an enourmous call out fee and then another enourmous fee to cut it down and then just find a tree surgeon to do the work as they dont have any in house nowadays.
  25. tommer9
    I would like to donate this chopping board. It is made from quatersawn brown oak from a huge tree that came down in devon that i milled a few years ago. It is 1.75" thick, and ,measures 10"x15"., and i have had ARBTALK carved into it as you can see.

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