tommer9
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Everything posted by tommer9
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Aviva insure mine, its a 110, but i got the impression they will insure anything you want. I am 35 and I pay something around 400 a year, which i think is alot (full protected no-claims) and reckon you could do a lot better.
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I want one of those!
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You and me both rob. Oak beams do fetch that price, and when there isnt a recession in the building trade they sell very well. I have just been to taunton and bought a log off treemantom to mill a beam out of that will retail for best part of £300. The pitch pine beams reach that price because of their rarity, and TBH those oak beams which are reclaimed are fairly cheap if you ask me. Rob, it takes a year or two two really start selling alot, and because you are chainsawmilling then you either have to plane everything or sell at a slightly lower price as the finish just isnt quite that of a bandsaw. It will pick up though, so hang in there! I find that the fact that it is cornish timber in cornwall helps- the second homers love the romantic thing of being able to tell their knobby dinner guests about it. Same with window boards and kitchen worksurfaces.
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Hahahahaha.
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oakerly doakerly
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That is very true, and a bit of a stumbling block for most people, but there are so many good reasons to mill everything that is possible. The returns are excellent, and after a couple of years from when you start milling, you have usable timber, and if keep milling then there is always going to be a source of income of a higher value than just firewood.
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Best reply yet. Nice one Bob.
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Thats brilliant news mate. Well done, hope it continues in the same vein for you.
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Just coz you aint got one.
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An audience will take me sooooo far out of my comfort zone anyway!!
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Builders bucket. Works a treat.
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And fools seldom differ!
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Amazing pics mate. Wish i knew how to do that.
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1120mm in truro.
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I know mate, with no disrespect to to's.
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I bet you've got no end of options down your neck of the county. Windy windy:001_cool:
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I dont really get it- it isnt exactly a prize specimen of a tree, and with an extension going in there the builders will probably go halfway to killing it when the digger starts going at it and charging round the place anyway?!
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Tom, thats a whole looaad o' logs you've got there!!
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A good point well put.
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Nice.
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Ah. Sorry. Eggs. Grandmother. Teaching. Suck.
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Sorry to seem thick Bob, but I assume that you are referring to the diseased part of the tree for removal, as opposed to the whole tree? How would bracing it help?I havent braced any trees but have removed two which have been braced in the past, and one had decay which we were pretty sure had been introduced by the wound caused by the bracing. Surely it would be better to remove the decay back to healthy wood? I suppose it would partially decided by the nature and cause of the decay, but either way is there not a risk that by leaving it the decay would spread further thus causing failure and necessitate future felling of the whole tree? I would lean toward removal.
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You got something to dry down here last year!!!!! Thats a feat in itself mate:001_tongue:
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That is very true. However, if the ring is split into smaller logs then it will help heat/air get in there and help drive moisture out of the ends. If you see what i mean. If you brought back some lenghts of wood- sved from chipper etc then you could make a very loose frame under the pond liners which would help airflow. I take it anything more solid would not be allowed at you yard(?) as a pole barn would be ideal, and you could make it from softwood poles and second hand roofsheets quite inexpensively.
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Cut their ucking hands off like in syria.
